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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 129 109
Rank change year-on-year +11 -20 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,843 1,188 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.40% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.70% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,195 635 923
10th Percentile £44,750 £45,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +2.22% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +14 1,693 £70,000 +2.19% 2,554
UK excluding London +2 916 £62,500 -1.57% 1,316
London +2 772 £82,500 +4.76% 1,488
Work from Home +37 578 £68,724 +1.44% 1,108
North of England +76 354 £65,000 - 320
South East -50 198 £62,500 -3.85% 338
Midlands -1 171 £60,900 -4.09% 206
North West +66 163 £62,500 +4.17% 193
West Midlands +9 123 £62,500 +4.17% 133
South West -19 111 £69,973 +8.74% 135
Yorkshire +1 108 £68,510 +1.50% 93
North East +5 83 £65,000 +31.98% 36
East Midlands -29 48 £57,000 -12.31% 73
East of England -31 42 £62,500 +4.17% 104
Scotland -14 24 £70,000 +14.29% 134
Wales -43 22 £63,500 - 26
Northern Ireland -84 2 £60,000 - 68

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
1 105 (5.70%) Apache Spark
2 93 (5.05%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (4.67%) Apache
4 33 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.36%) Confluence
6 18 (0.98%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.60%) SAS
8 9 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.27%) CMS
11 4 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
14 1 (0.054%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.054%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 87 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.16%) Blender
4 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) Maya
4 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.11%) Notion
5 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 2 (0.11%) Windchill
6 1 (0.054%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.054%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 42 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.98%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.43%) SAP MDG-BP
9 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.27%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 4 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.22%) SAP BPC
11 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG-F
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
14 1 (0.054%) Integrated Workplace Management System
14 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 711 (38.58%) Azure
2 534 (28.97%) Power Platform
3 437 (23.71%) AWS
4 233 (12.64%) GCP
5 200 (10.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 166 (9.01%) Snowflake
7 144 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (7.00%) dbt
9 126 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 102 (5.53%) Serverless
11 96 (5.21%) Amazon S3
12 86 (4.67%) SaaS
13 83 (4.50%) Azure Databricks
14 71 (3.85%) Power Automate
15 70 (3.80%) GitHub
16 60 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
17 57 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
17 57 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
17 57 (3.09%) PowerApps
18 41 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.57%) Broadband
2 14 (0.76%) VPN
3 8 (0.43%) DMZ
3 8 (0.43%) Ethernet
3 8 (0.43%) IPv4
3 8 (0.43%) Modbus
3 8 (0.43%) OSPF
3 8 (0.43%) VLAN
4 6 (0.33%) BGP
4 6 (0.33%) DNS
4 6 (0.33%) IPsec
4 6 (0.33%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.16%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.054%) 4G
8 1 (0.054%) 5G
8 1 (0.054%) HTTP
8 1 (0.054%) NGN
8 1 (0.054%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 491 (26.64%) Power BI
2 366 (19.86%) Data Warehouse
3 259 (14.05%) Metadata
4 210 (11.39%) Data Lake
5 145 (7.87%) SQL Server
6 121 (6.57%) Tableau
7 114 (6.19%) Relational Database
8 97 (5.26%) Star Schema
9 89 (4.83%) Semantic Layer
10 87 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (4.45%) Big Data
11 82 (4.45%) Delta Lake
12 78 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 78 (4.23%) NoSQL
13 76 (4.12%) BigQuery
14 71 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 65 (3.53%) Power Query
16 58 (3.15%) Data Vault
17 55 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 49 (2.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 169 (9.17%) Git
2 49 (2.66%) Jenkins
3 48 (2.60%) JIRA
4 43 (2.33%) Claude Code
5 28 (1.52%) GitLab
6 10 (0.54%) MLflow
7 8 (0.43%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
9 5 (0.27%) Toad
10 4 (0.22%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.22%) Maven
10 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.11%) Flyway
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 647 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 574 (31.14%) Finance
3 478 (25.94%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 154 (8.36%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.26%) Marketing
6 86 (4.67%) Retail
7 77 (4.18%) Legal
8 75 (4.07%) Law
9 70 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 55 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.50%) Banking
12 31 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 29 (1.57%) Billing
14 27 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.81%) Advertising
17 15 (0.81%) Local Government
18 14 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 453 (24.58%) Data Engineer
2 428 (23.22%) Architect
3 396 (21.49%) Senior
4 316 (17.15%) Data Architect
5 212 (11.50%) Analyst
6 193 (10.47%) Developer
7 192 (10.42%) Lead
8 117 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 106 (5.75%) Data Analyst
10 72 (3.91%) Consultant
11 69 (3.74%) Senior Architect
12 57 (3.09%) Senior Data Architect
13 52 (2.82%) Data Modeller
14 51 (2.77%) Business Analyst
15 47 (2.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 46 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
16 46 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (2.44%) Senior Developer
17 45 (2.44%) Software Engineer
18 44 (2.39%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (9.01%) PySpark
2 127 (6.89%) REST
3 111 (6.02%) Terraform
4 92 (4.99%) Kafka
5 68 (3.69%) Node.js
6 67 (3.64%) React
7 59 (3.20%) .NET
8 51 (2.77%) Middleware
9 48 (2.60%) SOAP
10 46 (2.50%) JSON
10 46 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
11 36 (1.95%) CSS
12 33 (1.79%) AngularJS
12 33 (1.79%) XML
13 25 (1.36%) RESTful
14 22 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
14 22 (1.19%) Spring
15 21 (1.14%) HTML
15 21 (1.14%) Vue
16 20 (1.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.35%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 83 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 56 (3.04%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 38 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
14 24 (1.30%) Taxonomies
15 20 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
15 20 (1.09%) Reinsurance
15 20 (1.09%) Replication
16 18 (0.98%) Reference Data
17 17 (0.92%) Mobile App
18 16 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.47%) Windows
2 24 (1.30%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.054%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (45.31%) Analytics
2 663 (35.97%) Business Intelligence
3 628 (34.07%) AI
4 533 (28.92%) Data Governance
5 505 (27.40%) Data Engineering
6 499 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
7 493 (26.75%) ETL
8 483 (26.21%) Data Architecture
9 474 (25.72%) Agile
10 465 (25.23%) Decision-Making
11 464 (25.18%) CI/CD
12 413 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
13 344 (18.67%) Roadmaps
14 340 (18.45%) DevOps
15 309 (16.77%) Mentoring
16 291 (15.79%) Data Strategy
17 283 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
18 272 (14.76%) Technical Leadership
19 262 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
20 252 (13.67%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 952 (51.65%) SQL
2 698 (37.87%) Python
3 129 (7.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 100 (5.43%) C#
4 100 (5.43%) Java
5 90 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 82 (4.45%) Scala
7 76 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 43 (2.33%) Apex Code
9 35 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.36%) R
11 24 (1.30%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.25%) Bicep
13 17 (0.92%) SOQL
14 15 (0.81%) SOSL
15 13 (0.71%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.54%) Bash
18 8 (0.43%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 250 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 210 (11.39%) Degree
3 163 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 67 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 54 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 47 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 25 (1.36%) DBS Check
11 18 (0.98%) SnowPro
12 14 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.54%) CIPD
14 7 (0.38%) ACCA
15 6 (0.33%) CSPO
15 6 (0.33%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.33%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.27%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 685 (37.17%) Data Quality
2 125 (6.78%) GDPR
3 91 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 62 (3.36%) QA
5 14 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.49%) WCAG
7 8 (0.43%) PMO
8 5 (0.27%) IFRS
9 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.22%) MiFID
9 4 (0.22%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.16%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.16%) SLA
10 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.16%) UCITS
11 2 (0.11%) COPPA
11 2 (0.11%) GRC
12 1 (0.054%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (5.48%) Docker
2 15 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.38%) NDS
4 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.054%) NFS
4 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.054%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (3.69%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.03%) Ansible
3 8 (0.43%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) Grafana
6 3 (0.16%) Kibana
6 3 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
7 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.054%) Consul
8 1 (0.054%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.054%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.054%) QRadar
8 1 (0.054%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 455 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 338 (18.34%) Databricks
3 109 (5.91%) Salesforce
4 107 (5.81%) Oracle
5 106 (5.75%) SAP
6 66 (3.58%) Google
7 33 (1.79%) Informatica
8 20 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 20 (1.09%) Talend
9 16 (0.87%) Foundry
10 15 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 14 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 13 (0.71%) Palantir
13 11 (0.60%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.54%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.54%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.54%) IBM
14 10 (0.54%) MuleSoft
14 10 (0.54%) Okta
14 10 (0.54%) OpenText