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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 124 118
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,739 1,261 1,800
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.64% 2.52% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.83% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 641 1,102
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +4.37%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,250 £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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +5 1,610 £69,973 +3.66% 1,749
UK excluding London -5 844 £62,500 - 814
London +9 745 £80,000 +6.67% 1,123
Work from Home +15 544 £65,000 - 716
North of England +72 327 £62,500 +4.17% 224
South East -58 188 £62,500 -3.85% 208
Midlands -11 147 £60,000 -5.51% 118
North West +56 146 £62,500 +6.84% 139
Yorkshire +31 111 £65,000 - 57
West Midlands -1 104 £60,900 +4.55% 84
South West -52 95 £63,750 -3.77% 96
North East -2 70 £55,000 +10.00% 30
East of England -11 53 £71,000 +18.33% 54
East Midlands -30 43 £59,366 -8.67% 34
Scotland -13 24 £70,000 +14.29% 65
Wales - 8 £64,750 - 20
Northern Ireland -70 2 £60,000 - 30

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
1 130 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
2 124 (7.13%) Apache Spark
3 82 (4.72%) Apache
4 30 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.69%) Confluence
6 12 (0.69%) SAS
7 11 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
9 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) Luigi
10 4 (0.23%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.12%) Tornado
13 1 (0.058%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 75 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.058%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.15%) SAP MDG
4 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.46%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.35%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.29%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.12%) Misys Opics
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
11 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 681 (39.16%) Azure
2 495 (28.46%) Power Platform
3 460 (26.45%) AWS
4 257 (14.78%) GCP
5 180 (10.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 171 (9.83%) Snowflake
7 143 (8.22%) dbt
8 129 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 106 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 89 (5.12%) Serverless
12 63 (3.62%) SaaS
13 57 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
14 55 (3.16%) Power Automate
15 54 (3.11%) GitHub
16 51 (2.93%) PowerApps
17 39 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
18 37 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
19 33 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.53%) Broadband
2 7 (0.40%) VPN
3 6 (0.35%) BGP
3 6 (0.35%) DNS
3 6 (0.35%) IPsec
4 4 (0.23%) Internet
4 4 (0.23%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
6 2 (0.12%) 4G
6 2 (0.12%) 5G
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 2 (0.12%) SMS
7 1 (0.058%) DMZ
7 1 (0.058%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.058%) IPv4
7 1 (0.058%) Modbus
7 1 (0.058%) OSPF
7 1 (0.058%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (26.62%) Power BI
2 359 (20.64%) Data Warehouse
3 221 (12.71%) Data Lake
4 217 (12.48%) Metadata
5 140 (8.05%) Tableau
6 130 (7.48%) SQL Server
7 113 (6.50%) Relational Database
8 95 (5.46%) BigQuery
9 93 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 87 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
11 81 (4.66%) Big Data
12 78 (4.49%) Star Schema
13 69 (3.97%) Semantic Layer
14 65 (3.74%) NoSQL
15 63 (3.62%) Delta Lake
16 57 (3.28%) Looker
17 56 (3.22%) Data Vault
18 54 (3.11%) Power Query
18 54 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
19 52 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 125 (7.19%) Git
2 42 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 38 (2.19%) JIRA
4 33 (1.90%) MLflow
5 30 (1.73%) Claude Code
6 23 (1.32%) GitLab
7 10 (0.58%) ERwin
8 6 (0.35%) Toad
9 4 (0.23%) Ant
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.17%) Maven
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.12%) Postman
11 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 577 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 557 (32.03%) Finance
3 473 (27.20%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 125 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 83 (4.77%) Marketing
7 82 (4.72%) Law
8 80 (4.60%) Retail
9 59 (3.39%) Manufacturing
10 58 (3.34%) Legal
11 54 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.47%) Banking
13 30 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.32%) Billing
15 22 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (0.98%) Advertising
17 17 (0.98%) Front Office
18 15 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 425 (24.44%) Data Engineer
2 398 (22.89%) Architect
3 363 (20.87%) Senior
4 292 (16.79%) Data Architect
5 190 (10.93%) Analyst
5 190 (10.93%) Developer
6 176 (10.12%) Lead
7 104 (5.98%) Senior Data Engineer
8 89 (5.12%) Data Analyst
9 75 (4.31%) Consultant
10 56 (3.22%) Business Analyst
10 56 (3.22%) Data Modeller
11 54 (3.11%) Senior Architect
12 49 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 45 (2.59%) Senior Data Architect
14 43 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
15 42 (2.42%) Senior Developer
15 42 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (2.19%) Data Consultant
17 37 (2.13%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (7.59%) PySpark
2 121 (6.96%) Kafka
2 121 (6.96%) REST
3 66 (3.80%) Node.js
4 65 (3.74%) React
5 58 (3.34%) .NET
6 52 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
6 52 (2.99%) SOAP
7 49 (2.82%) Middleware
8 48 (2.76%) JSON
9 43 (2.47%) LangChain
10 36 (2.07%) XML
11 34 (1.96%) CSS
12 31 (1.78%) AngularJS
13 29 (1.67%) PyTorch
13 29 (1.67%) TensorFlow
14 27 (1.55%) pgvector
15 26 (1.50%) RESTful
15 26 (1.50%) scikit-learn
16 24 (1.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 175 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 125 (7.19%) Data Structures
3 89 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 74 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 60 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.73%) Clustering
11 28 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
11 28 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.55%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 24 (1.38%) Social Media
15 23 (1.32%) Low-Code
16 19 (1.09%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.09%) Reinsurance
17 18 (1.04%) Replication
18 17 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 24 (1.38%) Linux
2 19 (1.09%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.12%) Solaris
5 1 (0.058%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.058%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (47.96%) Analytics
2 614 (35.31%) Business Intelligence
3 576 (33.12%) AI
4 547 (31.45%) Data Governance
5 498 (28.64%) Data Engineering
6 493 (28.35%) ETL
7 481 (27.66%) Data Pipeline
8 441 (25.36%) Decision-Making
9 425 (24.44%) Data Architecture
10 423 (24.32%) Agile
11 402 (23.12%) CI/CD
12 383 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
13 306 (17.60%) Roadmaps
14 293 (16.85%) Machine Learning
15 291 (16.73%) DevOps
16 274 (15.76%) Data Strategy
17 266 (15.30%) Mentoring
18 235 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 219 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
20 206 (11.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 905 (52.04%) SQL
2 721 (41.46%) Python
3 111 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 108 (6.21%) Java
5 80 (4.60%) TypeScript
6 79 (4.54%) C#
7 71 (4.08%) Scala
8 66 (3.80%) JavaScript
9 46 (2.65%) Apex Code
10 38 (2.19%) T-SQL
11 29 (1.67%) R
12 18 (1.04%) Bicep
12 18 (1.04%) PowerShell
13 17 (0.98%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.92%) SOQL
14 16 (0.92%) SOSL
15 11 (0.63%) C++
15 11 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.58%) Bash
17 8 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 224 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 190 (10.93%) Degree
3 137 (7.88%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 48 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (1.27%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.86%) SnowPro
14 9 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.52%) CIPD
15 7 (0.40%) SAP Certification
16 6 (0.35%) IIBA
17 5 (0.29%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.23%) CBAP
18 4 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 596 (34.27%) Data Quality
2 127 (7.30%) GDPR
3 68 (3.91%) Accessibility
4 58 (3.34%) QA
5 29 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.40%) PMO
6 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.29%) GRC
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS
7 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.23%) MiFID
8 4 (0.23%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.12%) HL7
10 2 (0.12%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.058%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.058%) NIST
System Software
1 90 (5.18%) Docker
2 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.058%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 109 (6.27%) Terraform
2 58 (3.34%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.98%) Ansible
4 8 (0.46%) Packer
5 6 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (0.23%) Grafana
6 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.17%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Argo
8 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.058%) QRadar
9 1 (0.058%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.058%) SCCM
Vendors
1 367 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 357 (20.53%) Databricks
3 114 (6.56%) Oracle
4 104 (5.98%) Salesforce
4 104 (5.98%) SAP
5 59 (3.39%) Google
6 26 (1.50%) Cloudera
6 26 (1.50%) Informatica
7 23 (1.32%) Dell
8 19 (1.09%) Palantir
9 17 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 16 (0.92%) Talend
11 15 (0.86%) Foundry
12 13 (0.75%) IBM
13 12 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 12 (0.69%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 10 (0.58%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.52%) HubSpot
16 8 (0.46%) SYSPRO