Data Modelling Job Trends

Data Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 117 107
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,301 1,377 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.22% 2.42% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.71% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 689 741 1,058
10th Percentile £45,500 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.62% +2.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £55,824
% change year-on-year +5.83% +7.48% -0.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,586 50,789 45,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.08% 89.40% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 28,463 25,691 35,102
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,720 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.42% +4.76% -2.78%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Modelling
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +17 1,170 £70,000 +7.69% 1,282
UK excluding London +18 700 £63,500 +5.83% 1,214
London +29 547 £82,500 +10.00% 261
Work from Home +23 461 £68,000 +4.62% 644
South East +21 257 £63,000 +0.80% 376
North of England -14 149 £67,500 +15.09% 247
Midlands +32 122 £61,250 +6.52% 218
West Midlands +34 86 £60,000 +9.09% 131
Yorkshire +5 85 £70,000 +27.27% 97
Scotland +18 78 £81,292 +47.80% 57
North West -24 54 £65,250 +8.75% 131
South West -9 46 £64,350 -7.09% 121
East of England +38 43 £57,500 +6.98% 180
East Midlands +9 36 £66,250 +1.92% 76
North East -1 10 £53,750 +7.50% 19
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,500 - 12
Wales -3 5 £37,500 -12.28% 31

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 74 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 51 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
3 34 (2.61%) Apache
4 24 (1.84%) Confluence
5 14 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.00%) Appian
7 10 (0.77%) SAS
8 5 (0.38%) CMS
9 3 (0.23%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Luigi
10 2 (0.15%) Mendix
11 1 (0.077%) Camunda
11 1 (0.077%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.077%) OpenStack
Applications
1 162 (12.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.31%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.23%) Sketch
7 3 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) Windchill
9 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.077%) Notion
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.077%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 39 (3.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.54%) SAP CO
3 7 (0.54%) SAP FI
3 7 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
4 5 (0.38%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.15%) iTrent
6 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.077%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.077%) Endur
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.077%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.077%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.077%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.077%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.077%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.077%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.077%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 686 (52.73%) Azure
2 429 (32.97%) Power Platform
3 267 (20.52%) AWS
4 190 (14.60%) Snowflake
5 156 (11.99%) GCP
6 144 (11.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 131 (10.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 115 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
9 101 (7.76%) dbt
10 87 (6.69%) GitHub
11 71 (5.46%) Serverless
12 51 (3.92%) Amazon S3
13 50 (3.84%) SaaS
14 45 (3.46%) GitHub Copilot
15 39 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
16 34 (2.61%) Power Automate
17 32 (2.46%) PowerApps
18 30 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
19 29 (2.23%) Collibra
20 23 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) HTTP
2 2 (0.15%) Broadband
2 2 (0.15%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.077%) ADSL
3 1 (0.077%) DHCP
3 1 (0.077%) DNS
3 1 (0.077%) Internet
3 1 (0.077%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.077%) Modbus
3 1 (0.077%) MQTT
3 1 (0.077%) TCAP
3 1 (0.077%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (31.13%) Data Warehouse
1 405 (31.13%) Power BI
2 231 (17.76%) Data Lake
3 155 (11.91%) Metadata
4 112 (8.61%) SQL Server
5 86 (6.61%) Tableau
6 76 (5.84%) SAP BW
7 65 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 63 (4.84%) Big Data
9 62 (4.77%) NoSQL
10 57 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 57 (4.38%) Power Query
11 53 (4.07%) MySQL
12 47 (3.61%) Relational Database
13 45 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 44 (3.38%) Hadoop
14 44 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
15 43 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
16 42 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 37 (2.84%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 63 (4.84%) Git
2 58 (4.46%) JIRA
3 33 (2.54%) ERwin
4 20 (1.54%) ER Studio
5 15 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.77%) GitLab
7 7 (0.54%) MLflow
7 7 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (0.46%) Postman
8 6 (0.46%) Selenium
9 5 (0.38%) git-flow
9 5 (0.38%) Robot Framework
9 5 (0.38%) Snyk
10 4 (0.31%) JUnit
11 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.23%) Storybook
12 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.077%) ClearCase
13 1 (0.077%) LSMW
13 1 (0.077%) NUnit
General
1 517 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 456 (35.05%) Finance
3 338 (25.98%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.15%) Marketing
5 102 (7.84%) Law
6 84 (6.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (5.38%) Retail
8 64 (4.92%) Public Sector
9 60 (4.61%) Banking
10 51 (3.92%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 30 (2.31%) Retail Banking
13 25 (1.92%) Legal
14 22 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 21 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.38%) Advertising
17 17 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (1.00%) Electronics
19 12 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (23.29%) Architect
2 273 (20.98%) Senior
3 249 (19.14%) Data Engineer
4 222 (17.06%) Data Architect
5 179 (13.76%) Lead
6 177 (13.60%) Analyst
7 135 (10.38%) Developer
8 106 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
9 64 (4.92%) Data Analyst
10 55 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 46 (3.54%) Azure Data Engineer
12 42 (3.23%) Report Analyst
13 41 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 40 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Lead
15 39 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 37 (2.84%) Business Analyst
17 34 (2.61%) Consultant
17 34 (2.61%) Senior Architect
17 34 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (5.76%) Kafka
2 71 (5.46%) REST
3 37 (2.84%) PySpark
4 36 (2.77%) .NET
4 36 (2.77%) SOAP
5 29 (2.23%) JSON
5 29 (2.23%) RESTful
6 27 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
7 25 (1.92%) CSS
7 25 (1.92%) HTML
8 22 (1.69%) React
9 21 (1.61%) XML
10 15 (1.15%) Django
10 15 (1.15%) Middleware
11 13 (1.00%) Web Services
12 12 (0.92%) EDI
12 12 (0.92%) Pandas
13 11 (0.85%) OpenAPI
13 11 (0.85%) Swagger
13 11 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (7.99%) Product Ownership
2 77 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 56 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 54 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 26 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 19 (1.46%) FMCG
11 16 (1.23%) e-Learning
12 15 (1.15%) Reinsurance
13 13 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.85%) Fixed Income
16 10 (0.77%) Biopharmaceutical
16 10 (0.77%) Life Science
17 9 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
17 9 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (0.54%) Unix
1 7 (0.54%) Windows
2 6 (0.46%) Android
2 6 (0.46%) Linux
3 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (45.89%) Analytics
2 505 (38.82%) Business Intelligence
3 447 (34.36%) ETL
4 378 (29.05%) Data Governance
5 367 (28.21%) Agile
6 342 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
7 327 (25.13%) Data Architecture
8 319 (24.52%) Data Pipeline
9 315 (24.21%) Data Engineering
10 283 (21.75%) CI/CD
11 273 (20.98%) Decision-Making
12 266 (20.45%) DevOps
13 252 (19.37%) AI
14 229 (17.60%) Data Integration
15 199 (15.30%) Mentoring
16 191 (14.68%) Data Strategy
17 186 (14.30%) Data Management
18 182 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
19 168 (12.91%) Data Science
20 160 (12.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 611 (46.96%) SQL
2 493 (37.89%) Python
3 88 (6.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 81 (6.23%) Java
5 71 (5.46%) C#
6 64 (4.92%) JavaScript
7 54 (4.15%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.92%) Scala
9 38 (2.92%) T-SQL
10 28 (2.15%) Apex Code
11 27 (2.08%) R
12 24 (1.84%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.85%) C++
14 11 (0.85%) VBA
15 10 (0.77%) ANSI SQL
15 10 (0.77%) Bash
16 6 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.38%) Fortran
18 4 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 272 (20.91%) Degree
2 74 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 72 (5.53%) Security Cleared
4 63 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 54 (4.15%) AWS Certification
5 54 (4.15%) SC Cleared
6 43 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.31%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
8 21 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.46%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.92%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 10 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.69%) OCP
12 9 (0.69%) SnowPro
13 8 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.54%) CISSP
14 7 (0.54%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.54%) PMP
14 7 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 363 (27.90%) Data Quality
2 86 (6.61%) GDPR
3 70 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 39 (3.00%) QA
5 26 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.54%) COBIT
7 7 (0.54%) GRC
7 7 (0.54%) ITGC
7 7 (0.54%) NIST
8 5 (0.38%) MiFID
9 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.15%) PMO
10 2 (0.15%) PSD2
10 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.15%) SLA
10 2 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
11 1 (0.077%) CDISC
11 1 (0.077%) HL7
System Software
1 32 (2.46%) Docker
2 8 (0.61%) HDFS
2 8 (0.61%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.077%) iptables
5 1 (0.077%) KVM
5 1 (0.077%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 54 (4.15%) Terraform
2 25 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.69%) Ansible
4 8 (0.61%) Data Guard
4 8 (0.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 8 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.38%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.23%) Control-M
7 2 (0.15%) Grafana
8 1 (0.077%) Argo
8 1 (0.077%) Kibana
8 1 (0.077%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.077%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.077%) Puppet
Vendors
1 294 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 206 (15.83%) Databricks
3 173 (13.30%) SAP
4 67 (5.15%) Oracle
5 59 (4.53%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.07%) Google
6 40 (3.07%) Informatica
7 32 (2.46%) Talend
8 18 (1.38%) Palantir
9 14 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 12 (0.92%) IBM
10 12 (0.92%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.85%) Sparx
12 10 (0.77%) Dataiku
12 10 (0.77%) Foundry
12 10 (0.77%) UiPath
13 9 (0.69%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.61%) Delphix
14 8 (0.61%) Siemens
15 7 (0.54%) Progress