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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 133 100
Rank change year-on-year +30 -33 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,396 1,102 2,141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.99% 2.33% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.51% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 809 587 1,420
10th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.49% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £58,648 £57,046
% change year-on-year +9.72% +2.81% -0.79%

All Process & 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 55,198 43,957 67,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.83% 93.01% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 33,132 22,050 51,588
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 28 February 2026.

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 28 February 2026. 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 +32 1,200 £70,000 +11.11% 637
UK excluding London +7 657 £64,350 +9.72% 493
London +57 624 £80,000 +10.34% 274
Work from Home +39 546 £70,932 +13.49% 329
South East +25 186 £61,500 -1.60% 193
North of England -12 162 £70,000 +33.33% 122
Midlands -3 112 £60,000 - 99
Scotland +2 91 £87,500 +41.42% 21
Yorkshire +3 88 £75,000 +42.86% 34
West Midlands +8 87 £60,000 +4.35% 80
North West -31 64 £67,500 +48.96% 68
South West -38 47 £64,350 +17.00% 32
East of England +17 44 £56,250 -10.71% 23
East Midlands -28 23 £55,000 -15.06% 19
Wales +2 10 £67,586 +80.23% 4
North East -8 10 £52,500 -14.22% 23
Northern Ireland -24 6 £40,500 -

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 94 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (4.73%) Apache Spark
3 52 (3.72%) Apache
4 19 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.29%) Confluence
5 18 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.22%) Appian
6 17 (1.22%) SAS
7 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.50%) CMS
9 4 (0.29%) Camunda
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.072%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.072%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 89 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
6 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.072%) Notion
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 33 (2.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.072%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.072%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.072%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.072%) Misys Opics
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.072%) Primavera
8 1 (0.072%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 669 (47.92%) Azure
2 399 (28.58%) Power Platform
3 287 (20.56%) AWS
4 199 (14.26%) Snowflake
5 188 (13.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 166 (11.89%) GCP
7 152 (10.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 135 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (8.95%) dbt
10 86 (6.16%) GitHub
11 85 (6.09%) Serverless
12 66 (4.73%) Amazon S3
12 66 (4.73%) SaaS
13 57 (4.08%) Power Automate
14 45 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (3.22%) GitHub Copilot
15 44 (3.15%) PowerApps
16 38 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (2.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 33 (2.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.43%) Broadband
2 5 (0.36%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.21%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.072%) 4G
5 1 (0.072%) 5G
5 1 (0.072%) ADSL
5 1 (0.072%) CTI
5 1 (0.072%) DHCP
5 1 (0.072%) DNS
5 1 (0.072%) Internet
5 1 (0.072%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.072%) Modbus
5 1 (0.072%) MQTT
5 1 (0.072%) Network Security
5 1 (0.072%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.072%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (27.22%) Data Warehouse
2 365 (26.15%) Power BI
3 197 (14.11%) Metadata
4 191 (13.68%) Data Lake
5 127 (9.10%) SQL Server
6 90 (6.45%) Tableau
7 69 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 69 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 68 (4.87%) Relational Database
9 64 (4.58%) NoSQL
9 64 (4.58%) Power Query
10 56 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
11 55 (3.94%) MySQL
12 52 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 50 (3.58%) BigQuery
14 48 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 38 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
16 34 (2.44%) Data Vault
17 33 (2.36%) Big Data
18 28 (2.01%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 98 (7.02%) Git
2 52 (3.72%) JIRA
3 35 (2.51%) ERwin
4 19 (1.36%) Postman
5 17 (1.22%) MLflow
6 16 (1.15%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.86%) GitLab
8 10 (0.72%) Jenkins
9 8 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.50%) JUnit
11 6 (0.43%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) git-flow
13 3 (0.21%) Gradle
13 3 (0.21%) Maven
13 3 (0.21%) NUnit
13 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.21%) Snyk
13 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) TestNG
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 536 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 499 (35.74%) Finance
3 365 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (5.87%) Marketing
7 71 (5.09%) Law
8 64 (4.58%) Banking
9 56 (4.01%) Financial Institution
10 36 (2.58%) Retail
11 30 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (2.15%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.01%) Retail Banking
13 24 (1.72%) Legal
14 23 (1.65%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.36%) Advertising
17 14 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 346 (24.79%) Architect
2 287 (20.56%) Data Engineer
3 285 (20.42%) Senior
4 234 (16.76%) Data Architect
5 180 (12.89%) Analyst
6 146 (10.46%) Developer
6 146 (10.46%) Lead
7 108 (7.74%) Data Analyst
8 101 (7.23%) Senior Data Engineer
9 59 (4.23%) Consultant
10 44 (3.15%) Lead Data Engineer
11 37 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 37 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 35 (2.51%) Lead Architect
12 35 (2.51%) Senior Architect
13 34 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
13 34 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
14 33 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (2.29%) Azure Architect
16 31 (2.22%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (8.24%) REST
2 79 (5.66%) Kafka
3 61 (4.37%) SOAP
4 53 (3.80%) PySpark
5 48 (3.44%) .NET
6 45 (3.22%) JSON
6 45 (3.22%) RESTful
7 43 (3.08%) Lightning Web Components
8 34 (2.44%) Middleware
8 34 (2.44%) XML
9 33 (2.36%) CSS
9 33 (2.36%) OpenAPI
9 33 (2.36%) Swagger
10 32 (2.29%) React
11 27 (1.93%) HTML
12 24 (1.72%) Pandas
13 21 (1.50%) Visualforce
13 21 (1.50%) Web Services
14 20 (1.43%) Django
14 20 (1.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 108 (7.74%) Data Structures
3 90 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 61 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
7 37 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
8 34 (2.44%) Low-Code
8 34 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 33 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.43%) e-Learning
12 20 (1.43%) Reinsurance
13 18 (1.29%) Fixed Income
14 13 (0.93%) FMCG
15 10 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
15 10 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.72%) Life Science
15 10 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.93%) Linux
2 11 (0.79%) Windows
3 9 (0.64%) Unix
4 7 (0.50%) Android
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (45.20%) Analytics
2 482 (34.53%) Business Intelligence
3 458 (32.81%) ETL
4 417 (29.87%) Data Governance
5 405 (29.01%) Agile
6 383 (27.44%) Data Engineering
7 366 (26.22%) Data Architecture
8 337 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
9 332 (23.78%) CI/CD
10 327 (23.42%) Decision-Making
11 324 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
12 293 (20.99%) AI
13 288 (20.63%) DevOps
14 234 (16.76%) Mentoring
15 230 (16.48%) Data Integration
16 207 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 187 (13.40%) Data Strategy
18 182 (13.04%) Data Management
19 167 (11.96%) Data Science
20 163 (11.68%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 696 (49.86%) SQL
2 576 (41.26%) Python
3 121 (8.67%) Java
4 92 (6.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 89 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 85 (6.09%) C#
7 65 (4.66%) TypeScript
8 45 (3.22%) Apex Code
9 44 (3.15%) Scala
10 43 (3.08%) T-SQL
11 34 (2.44%) PowerShell
12 30 (2.15%) R
13 19 (1.36%) Bash
13 19 (1.36%) C++
14 14 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.79%) VBA
16 9 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
17 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.43%) Perl
17 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 229 (16.40%) Degree
2 122 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 92 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 92 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 73 (5.23%) Azure Certification
5 60 (4.30%) AWS Certification
6 49 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (2.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 33 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 29 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.58%) DV Cleared
11 19 (1.36%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.86%) ACCA
12 12 (0.86%) CIMA
12 12 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 11 (0.79%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.79%) PMP
14 9 (0.64%) SAP Certification
15 7 (0.50%) OCP
15 7 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (27.22%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 77 (5.52%) GDPR
4 36 (2.58%) QA
5 26 (1.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.72%) SLA
8 9 (0.64%) MiFID
9 6 (0.43%) GRC
10 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.14%) COBIT
12 2 (0.14%) ITGC
12 2 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.072%) SNOMED CT
13 1 (0.072%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (4.15%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.43%) HDFS
3 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.072%) Firmware
4 1 (0.072%) iptables
4 1 (0.072%) KVM
4 1 (0.072%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 64 (4.58%) Terraform
2 49 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.86%) Grafana
4 10 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.50%) Control-M
7 6 (0.43%) Ansible
7 6 (0.43%) Data Guard
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.072%) Argo
Vendors
1 345 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 225 (16.12%) Databricks
3 85 (6.09%) Salesforce
4 81 (5.80%) SAP
5 78 (5.59%) Oracle
6 53 (3.80%) Informatica
7 44 (3.15%) Google
8 32 (2.29%) Palantir
9 30 (2.15%) Talend
10 28 (2.01%) Foundry
11 22 (1.58%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.50%) OpenAI
13 16 (1.15%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.15%) Sparx
13 16 (1.15%) UiPath
14 13 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (0.93%) IBM
14 13 (0.93%) Workday
15 10 (0.72%) Cisco
16 9 (0.64%) Siemens