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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 115 102
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,541 1,118 2,454
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.75% 2.67% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.87% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 941 588 1,539
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,675 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%

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 66,205 38,927 81,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.18% 92.83% 85.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40,871 22,769 59,504
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +6 1,344 £69,000 +6.15% 708
UK excluding London -17 757 £65,000 +8.33% 555
London +41 632 £77,500 +3.33% 295
Work from Home +17 560 £65,500 +0.77% 348
North of England +18 221 £70,932 +26.10% 131
South East -34 194 £62,500 -3.85% 190
Midlands -16 141 £60,000 -1.40% 96
Yorkshire +23 113 £75,000 +25.00% 54
West Midlands -1 107 £60,000 - 61
North West -18 89 £68,750 +30.95% 56
Scotland -9 77 £70,000 +11.11% 18
East of England -9 58 £65,000 - 57
South West -76 56 £55,000 -2.17% 55
East Midlands -45 32 £51,825 -19.96% 35
North East -31 19 £55,000 -1.08% 23
Wales -17 7 £67,586 +80.23% 8
Northern Ireland -39 3 - - 7

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
1 134 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (5.52%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.57%) Apache
4 28 (1.82%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.36%) Confluence
6 20 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (1.10%) SAS
8 13 (0.84%) Appian
9 9 (0.58%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.19%) IIS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.065%) PegaRULES
14 1 (0.065%) Umbraco
Applications
1 90 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.19%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.13%) Windchill
7 1 (0.065%) Notion
7 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.91%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.65%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG-F
11 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
12 1 (0.065%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 730 (47.37%) Azure
2 440 (28.55%) Power Platform
3 344 (22.32%) AWS
4 210 (13.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 202 (13.11%) GCP
6 193 (12.52%) Snowflake
7 169 (10.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 149 (9.67%) dbt
9 138 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (5.52%) Serverless
11 75 (4.87%) GitHub
12 61 (3.96%) Amazon S3
13 56 (3.63%) Power Automate
14 48 (3.11%) SaaS
15 44 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
16 40 (2.60%) PowerApps
17 39 (2.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 35 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 33 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
20 32 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.19%) NGN
3 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.19%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) Network Security
4 2 (0.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.065%) ADSL
5 1 (0.065%) CTI
5 1 (0.065%) DHCP
5 1 (0.065%) DNS
5 1 (0.065%) Internet
5 1 (0.065%) Modbus
5 1 (0.065%) MQTT
5 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.065%) SMS
5 1 (0.065%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (26.28%) Power BI
2 364 (23.62%) Data Warehouse
3 216 (14.02%) Data Lake
4 192 (12.46%) Metadata
5 123 (7.98%) SQL Server
6 119 (7.72%) Tableau
7 98 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 89 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 72 (4.67%) BigQuery
10 69 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 64 (4.15%) NoSQL
13 56 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 53 (3.44%) Power Query
15 47 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
16 45 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 44 (2.86%) Looker
17 44 (2.86%) MySQL
18 36 (2.34%) Delta Lake
19 34 (2.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 106 (6.88%) Git
2 57 (3.70%) JIRA
3 41 (2.66%) MLflow
4 20 (1.30%) Postman
5 16 (1.04%) ERwin
6 14 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 11 (0.71%) GitLab
8 8 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.19%) Gradle
11 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) TestNG
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Checkstyle
12 2 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 527 (34.20%) Social Skills
2 523 (33.94%) Finance
3 435 (28.23%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 74 (4.80%) Marketing
7 71 (4.61%) Law
8 55 (3.57%) Financial Institution
9 54 (3.50%) Banking
10 42 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (2.73%) Retail
11 32 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 31 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 20 (1.30%) Advertising
13 20 (1.30%) Legal
14 18 (1.17%) Retail Banking
14 18 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.84%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 347 (22.52%) Data Engineer
2 340 (22.06%) Architect
3 305 (19.79%) Senior
4 225 (14.60%) Data Architect
5 207 (13.43%) Analyst
6 166 (10.77%) Developer
7 163 (10.58%) Lead
8 119 (7.72%) Data Analyst
9 93 (6.04%) Senior Data Engineer
10 71 (4.61%) Consultant
11 50 (3.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.05%) Lead Data Engineer
13 46 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 45 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
15 40 (2.60%) Data Modeller
16 38 (2.47%) Senior Architect
17 36 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 34 (2.21%) Senior Developer
19 32 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.57%) REST
2 105 (6.81%) Kafka
3 92 (5.97%) PySpark
4 67 (4.35%) SOAP
5 57 (3.70%) .NET
5 57 (3.70%) JSON
6 54 (3.50%) Lightning Web Components
7 52 (3.37%) RESTful
8 46 (2.99%) Middleware
9 44 (2.86%) XML
10 42 (2.73%) PyTorch
10 42 (2.73%) TensorFlow
11 41 (2.66%) React
12 40 (2.60%) scikit-learn
13 37 (2.40%) CSS
14 36 (2.34%) LangChain
15 33 (2.14%) OpenAPI
15 33 (2.14%) Swagger
16 32 (2.08%) HTML
17 31 (2.01%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.05%) Cloud Native
2 123 (7.98%) Data Structures
3 107 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 62 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 51 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 41 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 41 (2.66%) Low-Code
8 40 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.49%) Clustering
11 22 (1.43%) e-Learning
11 22 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.43%) Reinsurance
11 22 (1.43%) Social Media
12 17 (1.10%) Taxonomies
13 15 (0.97%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.91%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.84%) Windows
2 12 (0.78%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Android
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (46.59%) Analytics
2 535 (34.72%) Business Intelligence
3 502 (32.58%) ETL
4 478 (31.02%) Data Governance
5 453 (29.40%) Data Engineering
6 412 (26.74%) Agile
7 400 (25.96%) Data Pipeline
8 370 (24.01%) Decision-Making
9 363 (23.56%) AI
9 363 (23.56%) Data Architecture
10 355 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
11 351 (22.78%) CI/CD
12 305 (19.79%) DevOps
13 221 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 218 (14.15%) Mentoring
15 208 (13.50%) Data Integration
16 207 (13.43%) Machine Learning
17 188 (12.20%) Data Management
18 179 (11.62%) Data Science
19 173 (11.23%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 798 (51.78%) SQL
2 652 (42.31%) Python
3 117 (7.59%) Java
4 101 (6.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 82 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 70 (4.54%) C#
7 67 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 51 (3.31%) Apex Code
9 44 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 42 (2.73%) Scala
11 33 (2.14%) PowerShell
12 29 (1.88%) R
13 21 (1.36%) Bash
14 17 (1.10%) C++
15 13 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.65%) Perl
17 9 (0.58%) Go
17 9 (0.58%) VBA
18 8 (0.52%) SOQL
18 8 (0.52%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 193 (12.52%) Degree
2 141 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 94 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 78 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.09%) Azure Certification
6 47 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.62%) DBS Check
9 25 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 22 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 15 (0.97%) ACCA
12 15 (0.97%) CIMA
13 12 (0.78%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.45%) PMP
15 7 (0.45%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (30.11%) Data Quality
2 98 (6.36%) GDPR
3 70 (4.54%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.18%) QA
5 27 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 23 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.65%) SLA
9 7 (0.45%) MiFID
10 6 (0.39%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.32%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.19%) PERC
14 2 (0.13%) HL7
14 2 (0.13%) WCAG
15 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.065%) PMO
15 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 61 (3.96%) Docker
2 14 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.13%) HDFS
3 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.065%) Firmware
4 1 (0.065%) iptables
Systems Management
1 79 (5.13%) Terraform
2 56 (3.63%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.84%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.45%) Control-M
7 2 (0.13%) Ansible
7 2 (0.13%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.065%) Argo
8 1 (0.065%) Packer
8 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 350 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 302 (19.60%) Databricks
3 103 (6.68%) Salesforce
4 100 (6.49%) Oracle
5 75 (4.87%) SAP
6 49 (3.18%) Informatica
7 41 (2.66%) Google
8 34 (2.21%) Palantir
9 33 (2.14%) Talend
10 31 (2.01%) Cloudera
10 31 (2.01%) Foundry
11 23 (1.49%) Dell
11 23 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.43%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.17%) Sparx
14 16 (1.04%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.84%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.84%) UiPath
16 12 (0.78%) IBM
17 11 (0.71%) Workday