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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 128 106
Rank change year-on-year +18 -22 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,605 1,087 2,427
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.56% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.74% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 545 1,501
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.20% +4.17% +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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 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 27 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 +22 1,424 £69,000 +1.45% 727
UK excluding London +7 777 £64,500 +3.20% 443
London +38 666 £80,000 +6.67% 379
Work from Home +50 528 £68,750 +5.77% 350
North of England +76 269 £68,510 +19.15% 134
South East -22 186 £61,250 -5.77% 136
Midlands 0 141 £60,000 -4.76% 66
Yorkshire +42 126 £70,000 +16.67% 42
North West +27 116 £64,000 +21.90% 66
West Midlands -3 104 £60,000 - 45
East of England +3 60 £71,000 +1.43% 27
South West -86 56 £55,000 -8.33% 44
Scotland -5 55 £70,000 +21.74% 23
East Midlands -29 35 £55,000 -14.23% 21
North East -16 27 £65,000 +30.00% 29
Wales - 8 £67,586 - 13
Northern Ireland -39 2 - - 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
1 141 (8.79%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (5.61%) Apache Spark
3 65 (4.05%) Apache
4 34 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.06%) Confluence
7 15 (0.93%) SAS
8 11 (0.69%) CMS
9 9 (0.56%) Appian
9 9 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.31%) IIS
12 4 (0.25%) Camunda
12 4 (0.25%) WordPress
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.12%) CICS
14 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 68 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) Windchill
6 2 (0.12%) Blender
6 2 (0.12%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Sketch
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.062%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.00%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
7 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
9 4 (0.25%) Markit EDM
9 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.12%) Aladdin
11 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
12 1 (0.062%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 698 (43.49%) Azure
2 434 (27.04%) Power Platform
3 388 (24.17%) AWS
4 226 (14.08%) GCP
5 190 (11.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 157 (9.78%) Snowflake
7 140 (8.72%) dbt
8 139 (8.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 131 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (5.36%) Serverless
11 75 (4.67%) Amazon S3
12 64 (3.99%) Power Automate
13 63 (3.93%) GitHub
14 56 (3.49%) SaaS
15 49 (3.05%) PowerApps
16 46 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (2.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 32 (1.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 30 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.24%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) LTE
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
2 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) 4G
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) HTTP
3 2 (0.12%) Internet
3 2 (0.12%) SMS
3 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.062%) CTI
4 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.062%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (24.61%) Power BI
2 313 (19.50%) Data Warehouse
3 199 (12.40%) Data Lake
4 190 (11.84%) Metadata
5 117 (7.29%) SQL Server
5 117 (7.29%) Tableau
6 103 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 87 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 84 (5.23%) BigQuery
9 72 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
10 67 (4.17%) NoSQL
11 58 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 48 (2.99%) Star Schema
14 47 (2.93%) Looker
14 47 (2.93%) Power Query
15 46 (2.87%) Semantic Layer
16 44 (2.74%) Big Data
16 44 (2.74%) MySQL
17 43 (2.68%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 114 (7.10%) Git
2 43 (2.68%) JIRA
3 38 (2.37%) MLflow
4 22 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.00%) ERwin
6 15 (0.93%) Postman
7 13 (0.81%) GitLab
8 12 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.37%) Toad
10 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.31%) JUnit
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.19%) Gradle
12 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
12 3 (0.19%) Maven
12 3 (0.19%) NUnit
12 3 (0.19%) TestNG
12 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
General
1 535 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 515 (32.09%) Finance
3 445 (27.73%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (8.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 122 (7.60%) Public Sector
6 72 (4.49%) Marketing
7 71 (4.42%) Law
8 58 (3.61%) Retail
9 49 (3.05%) Banking
10 45 (2.80%) Financial Institution
11 44 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 35 (2.18%) Legal
13 30 (1.87%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 29 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.31%) Billing
16 20 (1.25%) Advertising
17 17 (1.06%) Local Government
18 15 (0.93%) Telecoms
19 13 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 370 (23.05%) Data Engineer
2 336 (20.93%) Architect
3 328 (20.44%) Senior
4 217 (13.52%) Data Architect
5 202 (12.59%) Analyst
6 189 (11.78%) Lead
7 188 (11.71%) Developer
8 117 (7.29%) Data Analyst
9 98 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 79 (4.92%) Consultant
11 53 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 53 (3.30%) Data Modeller
12 51 (3.18%) Business Analyst
13 46 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
14 44 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
14 44 (2.74%) Senior Architect
15 41 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
16 39 (2.43%) Data Manager
17 38 (2.37%) Senior Developer
18 37 (2.31%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (9.28%) REST
2 108 (6.73%) PySpark
3 103 (6.42%) Kafka
4 72 (4.49%) SOAP
5 70 (4.36%) .NET
6 59 (3.68%) React
7 58 (3.61%) JSON
8 56 (3.49%) Lightning Web Components
9 55 (3.43%) Middleware
10 50 (3.12%) CSS
11 47 (2.93%) Node.js
12 45 (2.80%) RESTful
13 44 (2.74%) XML
14 41 (2.55%) LangChain
15 38 (2.37%) PyTorch
15 38 (2.37%) scikit-learn
15 38 (2.37%) TensorFlow
16 34 (2.12%) HTML
17 31 (1.93%) Visualforce
18 28 (1.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 128 (7.98%) Data Structures
3 103 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 55 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 51 (3.18%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
9 39 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
10 37 (2.31%) Low-Code
11 34 (2.12%) Public Cloud
12 33 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 31 (1.93%) Reinsurance
14 24 (1.50%) Clustering
15 21 (1.31%) Social Media
16 20 (1.25%) Replication
17 18 (1.12%) AI Agents
18 15 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
19 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
19 14 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.93%) Windows
2 10 (0.62%) Linux
3 4 (0.25%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Android
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (45.42%) Analytics
2 537 (33.46%) Business Intelligence
3 504 (31.40%) Data Governance
4 472 (29.41%) ETL
5 451 (28.10%) Data Engineering
6 415 (25.86%) Data Pipeline
7 410 (25.55%) Agile
8 400 (24.92%) AI
9 392 (24.42%) CI/CD
10 380 (23.68%) Decision-Making
11 371 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
12 352 (21.93%) Data Architecture
13 321 (20.00%) DevOps
14 236 (14.70%) Mentoring
15 235 (14.64%) Machine Learning
16 212 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 194 (12.09%) Roadmaps
18 185 (11.53%) Data Strategy
19 171 (10.65%) Data Integration
20 169 (10.53%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 832 (51.84%) SQL
2 686 (42.74%) Python
3 128 (7.98%) Java
4 92 (5.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 89 (5.55%) JavaScript
6 72 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 66 (4.11%) C#
8 53 (3.30%) Apex Code
9 51 (3.18%) Scala
10 42 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 33 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 31 (1.93%) R
13 18 (1.12%) Bash
13 18 (1.12%) SOQL
13 18 (1.12%) SOSL
14 16 (1.00%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.62%) C++
15 10 (0.62%) VBA
16 9 (0.56%) Perl
17 8 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 191 (11.90%) Degree
2 167 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 109 (6.79%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.81%) DBS Check
10 26 (1.62%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 12 (0.75%) ACCA
13 12 (0.75%) CIMA
14 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.44%) PMP
15 7 (0.44%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.25%) IIBA
16 4 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (32.27%) Data Quality
2 104 (6.48%) GDPR
3 53 (3.30%) QA
4 48 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.56%) SLA
8 7 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 2 (0.12%) WCAG
14 1 (0.062%) NIST
14 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (4.67%) Docker
2 13 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 89 (5.55%) Terraform
2 62 (3.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.75%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.44%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Ansible
7 3 (0.19%) Kibana
7 3 (0.19%) Packer
8 1 (0.062%) QRadar
8 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 330 (20.56%) Databricks
2 318 (19.81%) Microsoft
3 114 (7.10%) Salesforce
4 101 (6.29%) Oracle
5 87 (5.42%) SAP
6 49 (3.05%) Google
7 45 (2.80%) Informatica
8 33 (2.06%) Palantir
9 32 (1.99%) Foundry
10 27 (1.68%) Cloudera
11 24 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.50%) Talend
12 23 (1.43%) Dell
13 20 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.25%) ServiceNow
14 14 (0.87%) Sparx
15 12 (0.75%) IBM
16 10 (0.62%) Automation Anywhere
16 10 (0.62%) UiPath
16 10 (0.62%) Workday