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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 124 123
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,683 1,223 1,993
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 2.49% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.77% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,153 624 1,266
10th Percentile £43,497 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 July 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 July 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 +18 1,546 £70,000 +3.70% 763
UK excluding London +2 803 £62,500 - 397
London +23 719 £80,000 +6.67% 445
Work from Home +22 532 £67,000 +3.08% 355
North of England +86 301 £63,000 +5.00% 106
South East -43 187 £62,500 -3.85% 133
Midlands -3 145 £60,000 -5.51% 56
North West +53 140 £62,500 +8.70% 54
Yorkshire +27 107 £66,250 +8.16% 27
West Midlands -3 102 £62,500 +8.70% 36
South West -68 82 £60,000 -14.29% 57
East of England +3 55 £71,000 +18.33% 17
North East -10 54 £55,000 +15.79% 26
East Midlands -27 43 £57,000 -11.97% 20
Scotland -17 19 £70,000 +5.66% 20
Wales - 11 £66,000 - 7
Northern Ireland -66 3 £60,000 - 4

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
1 137 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
2 119 (7.07%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.69%) Apache
4 33 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.07%) SAS
6 15 (0.89%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
8 11 (0.65%) Confluence
9 8 (0.48%) CMS
10 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.24%) WordPress
13 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.18%) Camunda
13 3 (0.18%) IIS
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
14 2 (0.12%) Appian
14 2 (0.12%) CICS
14 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 72 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.059%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.19%) SAP MDG
3 18 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.48%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 663 (39.39%) Azure
2 487 (28.94%) Power Platform
3 440 (26.14%) AWS
4 247 (14.68%) GCP
5 178 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 167 (9.92%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.44%) dbt
8 125 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 100 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
10 90 (5.35%) Amazon S3
11 86 (5.11%) Serverless
12 65 (3.86%) SaaS
13 58 (3.45%) Power Automate
14 52 (3.09%) PowerApps
15 50 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
16 47 (2.79%) GitHub
17 43 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
18 37 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
19 36 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
20 34 (2.02%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.61%) Broadband
2 6 (0.36%) BGP
2 6 (0.36%) DNS
2 6 (0.36%) IPsec
2 6 (0.36%) VPN
3 4 (0.24%) Internet
3 4 (0.24%) NGN
4 3 (0.18%) LTE
4 3 (0.18%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) 4G
5 2 (0.12%) 5G
5 2 (0.12%) SMS
6 1 (0.059%) CTI
6 1 (0.059%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 452 (26.86%) Power BI
2 349 (20.74%) Data Warehouse
3 217 (12.89%) Data Lake
4 196 (11.65%) Metadata
5 129 (7.66%) Tableau
6 128 (7.61%) SQL Server
7 109 (6.48%) Relational Database
8 93 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 93 (5.53%) BigQuery
9 87 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
10 73 (4.34%) Big Data
11 70 (4.16%) Star Schema
12 64 (3.80%) Semantic Layer
13 62 (3.68%) NoSQL
14 60 (3.57%) MySQL
15 57 (3.39%) Delta Lake
16 53 (3.15%) Power Query
17 52 (3.09%) Data Vault
18 51 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
19 49 (2.91%) Looker
Development Applications
1 114 (6.77%) Git
2 38 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.02%) JIRA
4 33 (1.96%) MLflow
5 28 (1.66%) Claude Code
6 18 (1.07%) GitLab
7 11 (0.65%) ERwin
8 6 (0.36%) Postman
8 6 (0.36%) Toad
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) Ant
11 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
General
1 558 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 529 (31.43%) Finance
3 453 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 74 (4.40%) Law
7 72 (4.28%) Retail
8 70 (4.16%) Marketing
9 55 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 50 (2.97%) Legal
12 36 (2.14%) Banking
13 33 (1.96%) Financial Institution
14 22 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.25%) Billing
15 21 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.01%) Advertising
18 16 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 416 (24.72%) Data Engineer
2 382 (22.70%) Architect
3 356 (21.15%) Senior
4 268 (15.92%) Data Architect
5 192 (11.41%) Developer
6 189 (11.23%) Lead
7 188 (11.17%) Analyst
8 114 (6.77%) Senior Data Engineer
9 92 (5.47%) Data Analyst
10 79 (4.69%) Consultant
11 58 (3.45%) Senior Architect
12 49 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 47 (2.79%) Business Analyst
13 47 (2.79%) Data Modeller
14 44 (2.61%) Senior Data Architect
14 44 (2.61%) Senior Developer
15 42 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 41 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.38%) Lead Data Engineer
18 38 (2.26%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (7.43%) PySpark
1 125 (7.43%) REST
2 115 (6.83%) Kafka
3 70 (4.16%) Node.js
4 66 (3.92%) React
5 59 (3.51%) JSON
6 57 (3.39%) .NET
7 52 (3.09%) SOAP
8 51 (3.03%) Middleware
9 49 (2.91%) Lightning Web Components
10 44 (2.61%) XML
11 42 (2.50%) LangChain
12 37 (2.20%) CSS
13 32 (1.90%) RESTful
14 31 (1.84%) PyTorch
14 31 (1.84%) TensorFlow
15 29 (1.72%) AngularJS
16 28 (1.66%) scikit-learn
17 26 (1.54%) HTML
18 24 (1.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 133 (7.90%) Data Structures
3 83 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 54 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
7 40 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 33 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 28 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.60%) Clustering
12 26 (1.54%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.54%) Low-Code
13 24 (1.43%) Reinsurance
14 23 (1.37%) Social Media
15 22 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
16 19 (1.13%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.13%) Replication
17 15 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.31%) Linux
2 17 (1.01%) Windows
3 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.059%) Solaris
4 1 (0.059%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (47.59%) Analytics
2 596 (35.41%) Business Intelligence
3 533 (31.67%) Data Governance
4 518 (30.78%) AI
5 487 (28.94%) Data Engineering
6 470 (27.93%) ETL
7 457 (27.15%) Data Pipeline
8 430 (25.55%) Decision-Making
9 397 (23.59%) Agile
10 384 (22.82%) Data Architecture
11 383 (22.76%) CI/CD
12 377 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
13 282 (16.76%) DevOps
14 280 (16.64%) Roadmaps
15 273 (16.22%) Machine Learning
16 268 (15.92%) Mentoring
17 249 (14.80%) Data Strategy
18 233 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
19 190 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
20 184 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 879 (52.23%) SQL
2 707 (42.01%) Python
3 113 (6.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 102 (6.06%) Java
5 80 (4.75%) TypeScript
6 73 (4.34%) C#
7 72 (4.28%) JavaScript
8 61 (3.62%) Scala
9 45 (2.67%) Apex Code
10 40 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 24 (1.43%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.37%) R
13 20 (1.19%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.07%) SOQL
14 18 (1.07%) SOSL
15 15 (0.89%) Bicep
16 12 (0.71%) Bash
17 11 (0.65%) C++
17 11 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 203 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 187 (11.11%) Degree
3 129 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 32 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.49%) DBS Check
10 18 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.65%) SnowPro
14 9 (0.53%) CIPD
15 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.36%) ACCA
16 6 (0.36%) CIMA
16 6 (0.36%) IIBA
17 5 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 579 (34.40%) Data Quality
2 123 (7.31%) GDPR
3 59 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 52 (3.09%) QA
5 28 (1.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.42%) PMO
8 6 (0.36%) GRC
8 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.30%) MiFID
10 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.24%) PERC
10 4 (0.24%) SLA
11 2 (0.12%) HL7
11 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.12%) UCITS
11 2 (0.12%) WCAG
12 1 (0.059%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 90 (5.35%) Docker
2 12 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) NDS
4 1 (0.059%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 104 (6.18%) Terraform
2 60 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.83%) Ansible
4 8 (0.48%) Packer
5 7 (0.42%) Grafana
5 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.059%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) QRadar
9 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.059%) SCCM
Vendors
1 353 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 345 (20.50%) Databricks
3 118 (7.01%) Oracle
4 103 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 102 (6.06%) SAP
6 51 (3.03%) Google
7 29 (1.72%) Informatica
8 27 (1.60%) Cloudera
9 23 (1.37%) Dell
10 22 (1.31%) Palantir
11 18 (1.07%) Foundry
12 17 (1.01%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.01%) Talend
13 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.77%) IBM
15 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 9 (0.53%) HubSpot
18 8 (0.48%) Bloomberg
19 7 (0.42%) Ariba