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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 120 111
Rank change year-on-year +3 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,794 1,246 1,785
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.51% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.83% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 630 987
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -0.71% +4.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,348
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% +10.12%

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 82,683 43,966 63,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.91% 88.62% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57,515 24,838 36,851
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.37%

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 12 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 12 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 0 1,652 £70,000 +1.45% 1,555
UK excluding London -6 888 £62,500 -1.57% 804
London +4 749 £82,500 +6.45% 959
Work from Home +37 550 £65,000 -4.41% 1,443
North of England +79 347 £65,000 +4.00% 149
South East -90 193 £62,500 -3.85% 250
Midlands +2 155 £62,500 -1.57% 131
North West +63 154 £62,500 +5.49% 88
West Midlands -2 111 £62,500 - 98
Yorkshire -1 110 £68,005 +0.75% 48
South West -25 106 £69,973 +11.96% 97
North East +6 83 £65,000 +31.98% 15
East of England -23 48 £65,000 +8.33% 79
East Midlands -37 44 £59,366 -8.67% 33
Scotland -9 24 £70,000 +14.29% 71
Wales -52 19 £63,500 - 13
Northern Ireland -74 2 £60,000 - 25

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
1 117 (6.52%) Apache Spark
2 107 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (4.57%) Apache
4 35 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 27 (1.51%) Confluence
6 18 (1.00%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.72%) SAS
8 9 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.33%) CMS
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.056%) JBoss
14 1 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 78 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 37 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.06%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 710 (39.58%) Azure
2 529 (29.49%) Power Platform
3 460 (25.64%) AWS
4 244 (13.60%) GCP
5 198 (11.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 159 (8.86%) Snowflake
7 136 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 136 (7.58%) dbt
8 135 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
9 97 (5.41%) Serverless
10 93 (5.18%) Amazon S3
11 76 (4.24%) Azure Databricks
11 76 (4.24%) SaaS
12 68 (3.79%) Power Automate
13 66 (3.68%) GitHub
14 64 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
15 56 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
15 56 (3.12%) PowerApps
16 55 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
17 37 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.12%) Broadband
2 12 (0.67%) VPN
3 6 (0.33%) BGP
3 6 (0.33%) DMZ
3 6 (0.33%) DNS
3 6 (0.33%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.33%) IPsec
3 6 (0.33%) IPv4
3 6 (0.33%) Modbus
3 6 (0.33%) OSPF
3 6 (0.33%) SMS
3 6 (0.33%) VLAN
4 4 (0.22%) Internet
4 4 (0.22%) NGN
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
6 2 (0.11%) Network Security
7 1 (0.056%) 4G
7 1 (0.056%) 5G
7 1 (0.056%) ATM
7 1 (0.056%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (27.15%) Power BI
2 366 (20.40%) Data Warehouse
3 241 (13.43%) Metadata
4 227 (12.65%) Data Lake
5 141 (7.86%) Tableau
6 135 (7.53%) SQL Server
7 107 (5.96%) Relational Database
8 91 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
9 90 (5.02%) Star Schema
10 86 (4.79%) BigQuery
11 83 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 83 (4.63%) Big Data
12 80 (4.46%) Semantic Layer
13 79 (4.40%) Delta Lake
14 73 (4.07%) NoSQL
15 65 (3.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (3.34%) Data Vault
17 55 (3.07%) Power Query
18 54 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
19 51 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 151 (8.42%) Git
2 50 (2.79%) JIRA
3 47 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.29%) Claude Code
5 25 (1.39%) MLflow
6 24 (1.34%) GitLab
7 9 (0.50%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
8 6 (0.33%) Toad
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.11%) Mockito
General
1 624 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 555 (30.94%) Finance
3 483 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.13%) Marketing
7 85 (4.74%) Retail
8 76 (4.24%) Law
9 68 (3.79%) Legal
10 64 (3.57%) Manufacturing
11 54 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (2.45%) Banking
13 29 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 27 (1.51%) Billing
15 25 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.72%) Advertising
18 13 (0.72%) Front Office
18 13 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 430 (23.97%) Data Engineer
2 414 (23.08%) Architect
3 391 (21.79%) Senior
4 303 (16.89%) Data Architect
5 199 (11.09%) Analyst
6 187 (10.42%) Lead
7 185 (10.31%) Developer
8 111 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
9 98 (5.46%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.96%) Consultant
11 65 (3.62%) Senior Architect
12 55 (3.07%) Senior Data Architect
13 54 (3.01%) Data Modeller
14 52 (2.90%) Business Analyst
15 48 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 47 (2.62%) Databricks Engineer
17 44 (2.45%) Senior Developer
18 43 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
18 43 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
19 42 (2.34%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (8.75%) PySpark
2 125 (6.97%) REST
3 110 (6.13%) Terraform
4 107 (5.96%) Kafka
5 66 (3.68%) Node.js
6 64 (3.57%) React
7 56 (3.12%) .NET
8 49 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
9 47 (2.62%) SOAP
10 46 (2.56%) JSON
11 45 (2.51%) Middleware
12 36 (2.01%) LangChain
13 35 (1.95%) CSS
13 35 (1.95%) XML
14 30 (1.67%) AngularJS
15 24 (1.34%) RESTful
16 21 (1.17%) HTML
16 21 (1.17%) Next.js
16 21 (1.17%) Spring
16 21 (1.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 179 (9.98%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.13%) Data Structures
3 103 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 36 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 34 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 28 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
13 26 (1.45%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.23%) Clustering
14 22 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 20 (1.11%) Reinsurance
16 19 (1.06%) Replication
16 19 (1.06%) Social Media
17 18 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.28%) Linux
1 23 (1.28%) Windows
2 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (46.21%) Analytics
2 651 (36.29%) Business Intelligence
3 626 (34.89%) AI
4 538 (29.99%) Data Governance
5 511 (28.48%) Data Engineering
6 493 (27.48%) ETL
7 482 (26.87%) Data Pipeline
8 457 (25.47%) Data Architecture
9 454 (25.31%) Decision-Making
10 447 (24.92%) Agile
11 444 (24.75%) CI/CD
12 400 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
13 334 (18.62%) Roadmaps
14 326 (18.17%) DevOps
15 294 (16.39%) Mentoring
16 288 (16.05%) Data Strategy
17 278 (15.50%) Machine Learning
18 260 (14.49%) Lakehouse
19 258 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
20 256 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 926 (51.62%) SQL
2 707 (39.41%) Python
3 118 (6.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 98 (5.46%) Java
5 92 (5.13%) C#
6 83 (4.63%) TypeScript
7 79 (4.40%) Scala
8 72 (4.01%) JavaScript
9 43 (2.40%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.95%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.56%) R
12 22 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.11%) Bicep
14 17 (0.95%) SOQL
15 15 (0.84%) SOSL
16 13 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.61%) Bash
17 11 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.45%) Go
18 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 237 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 195 (10.87%) Degree
3 145 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.56%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.67%) AWS Certification
10 28 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.56%) DBS Check
11 18 (1.00%) SnowPro
12 14 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.50%) CIPD
15 6 (0.33%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.28%) ACCA
16 5 (0.28%) CSPO
16 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 650 (36.23%) Data Quality
2 133 (7.41%) GDPR
3 82 (4.57%) Accessibility
4 72 (4.01%) QA
5 27 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.39%) IFRS
6 7 (0.39%) PMO
6 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
6 7 (0.39%) WCAG
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.22%) MiFID
8 4 (0.22%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.17%) GRC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.056%) COPPA
System Software
1 92 (5.13%) Docker
2 9 (0.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.33%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 60 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.06%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.056%) Consul
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 422 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 357 (19.90%) Databricks
3 108 (6.02%) Salesforce
4 105 (5.85%) Oracle
5 103 (5.74%) SAP
6 63 (3.51%) Google
7 34 (1.90%) Informatica
8 20 (1.11%) Talend
9 19 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.00%) Cloudera
11 17 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 16 (0.89%) Dell
12 16 (0.89%) Foundry
13 15 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 14 (0.78%) Palantir
15 11 (0.61%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
17 9 (0.50%) CyberArk
17 9 (0.50%) ForgeRock
17 9 (0.50%) HubSpot