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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 119 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 +5
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,530 1,125 2,461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.70% 2.66% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.87% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 951 583 1,542
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £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 £83,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 67,238 39,252 82,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.66% 92.86% 85.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41,831 22,645 59,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,516 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +10 1,339 £69,000 +6.15% 817
UK excluding London -20 749 £65,000 +8.33% 539
London +37 627 £80,000 +6.67% 394
Work from Home +12 542 £70,000 +7.69% 396
North of England +13 215 £70,932 +26.10% 133
South East -41 195 £60,000 -7.69% 194
Midlands -9 144 £60,000 -4.00% 102
Yorkshire +13 113 £75,000 +25.00% 47
West Midlands +3 110 £60,715 +1.19% 74
North West -18 85 £70,000 +33.33% 67
Scotland -13 72 £70,000 +13.14% 19
East of England +7 58 £65,000 -3.70% 35
South West -79 57 £55,000 -2.17% 39
East Midlands -39 32 £51,825 -19.96% 28
North East -27 17 £55,000 -1.08% 20
Wales -21 7 £67,586 +80.23% 20
Northern Ireland -42 1 - - 2

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
1 136 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.59%) Apache
4 30 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 19 (1.24%) Confluence
7 18 (1.18%) SAS
8 12 (0.78%) Appian
9 9 (0.59%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.20%) IIS
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) CICS
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 75 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.13%) Sketch
6 1 (0.065%) Notion
6 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.065%) SPSS
6 1 (0.065%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 13 (0.85%) SAP MDG
3 12 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.26%) Markit EDM
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG-F
8 3 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.20%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
9 2 (0.13%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
10 1 (0.065%) FIS Private Capital Suite
10 1 (0.065%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 1 (0.065%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 716 (46.80%) Azure
2 423 (27.65%) Power Platform
3 350 (22.88%) AWS
4 212 (13.86%) GCP
5 195 (12.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 189 (12.35%) Snowflake
7 151 (9.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 146 (9.54%) dbt
9 143 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
10 84 (5.49%) Serverless
11 73 (4.77%) GitHub
12 63 (4.12%) Amazon S3
13 56 (3.66%) Power Automate
14 47 (3.07%) SaaS
15 43 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (2.68%) PowerApps
17 38 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 34 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 32 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
20 30 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.09%) Broadband
2 4 (0.26%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) NGN
3 3 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.20%) 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
1 389 (25.42%) Power BI
2 352 (23.01%) Data Warehouse
3 210 (13.73%) Data Lake
4 193 (12.61%) Metadata
5 118 (7.71%) Tableau
6 113 (7.39%) SQL Server
7 99 (6.47%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 79 (5.16%) BigQuery
10 70 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (4.25%) NoSQL
12 55 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 53 (3.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 52 (3.40%) Power Query
15 46 (3.01%) Looker
16 44 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
17 42 (2.75%) MySQL
18 38 (2.48%) Delta Lake
19 37 (2.42%) Star Schema
20 33 (2.16%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 108 (7.06%) Git
2 53 (3.46%) JIRA
3 42 (2.75%) MLflow
4 20 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 18 (1.18%) Postman
6 16 (1.05%) ERwin
7 11 (0.72%) GitLab
8 9 (0.59%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.39%) JUnit
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.20%) Gradle
11 3 (0.20%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.20%) Maven
11 3 (0.20%) NUnit
11 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.20%) TestNG
11 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) Checkstyle
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 520 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 495 (32.35%) Finance
3 423 (27.65%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 110 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 71 (4.64%) Marketing
7 70 (4.58%) Law
8 53 (3.46%) Banking
9 49 (3.20%) Financial Institution
10 43 (2.81%) Retail
11 40 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.76%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.37%) Advertising
16 20 (1.31%) Legal
17 17 (1.11%) Telecoms
18 16 (1.05%) Retail Banking
19 13 (0.85%) Local Government
19 13 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 349 (22.81%) Data Engineer
2 339 (22.16%) Architect
3 302 (19.74%) Senior
4 227 (14.84%) Data Architect
5 203 (13.27%) Analyst
6 169 (11.05%) Developer
7 165 (10.78%) Lead
8 118 (7.71%) Data Analyst
9 89 (5.82%) Senior Data Engineer
10 74 (4.84%) Consultant
11 52 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (3.07%) Lead Data Engineer
13 45 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
13 45 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (2.88%) Business Analyst
15 43 (2.81%) Data Modeller
16 37 (2.42%) Senior Architect
17 35 (2.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 34 (2.22%) Senior Developer
19 32 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (8.69%) REST
2 107 (6.99%) Kafka
3 94 (6.14%) PySpark
4 67 (4.38%) SOAP
5 57 (3.73%) .NET
5 57 (3.73%) JSON
6 53 (3.46%) Lightning Web Components
7 50 (3.27%) RESTful
8 48 (3.14%) Middleware
9 44 (2.88%) XML
10 42 (2.75%) PyTorch
10 42 (2.75%) TensorFlow
11 41 (2.68%) React
12 40 (2.61%) scikit-learn
13 38 (2.48%) CSS
14 37 (2.42%) LangChain
15 33 (2.16%) HTML
16 31 (2.03%) OpenAPI
16 31 (2.03%) Pandas
16 31 (2.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 122 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 105 (6.86%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.99%) Management Information System
5 53 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 51 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 46 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 43 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (2.61%) Low-Code
10 33 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 31 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.57%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.50%) Clustering
14 22 (1.44%) Social Media
15 21 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.18%) e-Learning
17 16 (1.05%) Replication
17 16 (1.05%) Taxonomies
18 15 (0.98%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 14 (0.92%) Windows
2 12 (0.78%) Linux
3 4 (0.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.20%) Android
4 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 708 (46.27%) Analytics
2 519 (33.92%) Business Intelligence
3 492 (32.16%) ETL
4 477 (31.18%) Data Governance
5 455 (29.74%) Data Engineering
6 408 (26.67%) Agile
7 403 (26.34%) Data Pipeline
8 367 (23.99%) Data Architecture
9 355 (23.20%) AI
9 355 (23.20%) CI/CD
10 350 (22.88%) Decision-Making
10 350 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
11 311 (20.33%) DevOps
12 220 (14.38%) Mentoring
13 214 (13.99%) Machine Learning
14 208 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 202 (13.20%) Data Integration
16 183 (11.96%) Data Management
17 178 (11.63%) Data Strategy
18 176 (11.50%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 790 (51.63%) SQL
2 657 (42.94%) Python
3 119 (7.78%) Java
4 90 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 82 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 67 (4.38%) C#
7 64 (4.18%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.40%) Apex Code
9 43 (2.81%) T-SQL
10 42 (2.75%) Scala
11 34 (2.22%) PowerShell
12 30 (1.96%) R
13 23 (1.50%) Bash
14 15 (0.98%) C++
15 12 (0.78%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.65%) Perl
17 9 (0.59%) SOQL
17 9 (0.59%) SOSL
17 9 (0.59%) VBA
18 8 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 192 (12.55%) Degree
2 145 (9.48%) Security Cleared
3 95 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 44 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.70%) DBS Check
9 23 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 21 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.31%) DV Cleared
12 15 (0.98%) ACCA
12 15 (0.98%) CIMA
13 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.46%) PMP
14 7 (0.46%) SAP Certification
15 6 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.26%) CBAP
16 4 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (30.72%) Data Quality
2 97 (6.34%) GDPR
3 66 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 50 (3.27%) QA
5 26 (1.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 15 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
8 9 (0.59%) SLA
9 7 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 6 (0.39%) MiFID
11 5 (0.33%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS
11 5 (0.33%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.20%) PERC
13 2 (0.13%) HL7
13 2 (0.13%) WCAG
14 1 (0.065%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.065%) NIST
14 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 62 (4.05%) Docker
2 13 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.065%) Firmware
3 1 (0.065%) iptables
3 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (5.62%) Terraform
2 59 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.85%) Grafana
4 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.46%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Ansible
8 3 (0.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.065%) SCCM
Vendors
1 340 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 306 (20.00%) Databricks
3 104 (6.80%) Salesforce
4 102 (6.67%) Oracle
5 81 (5.29%) SAP
6 50 (3.27%) Informatica
7 44 (2.88%) Google
8 33 (2.16%) Palantir
9 32 (2.09%) Cloudera
9 32 (2.09%) Talend
10 30 (1.96%) Foundry
11 23 (1.50%) Dell
12 22 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.44%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.18%) Sparx
14 16 (1.05%) ServiceNow
15 13 (0.85%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.85%) UiPath
16 12 (0.78%) IBM
17 11 (0.72%) Workday