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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 124 96
Rank change year-on-year +29 -28 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,408 1,231 2,081
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.21% 2.37% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.59% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 756 627 1,398
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £56,750 £51,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £64,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £87,898 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £58,749 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.24% +6.82% -

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 51,135 47,583 62,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.17% 91.57% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 30,200 22,958 48,143
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,531 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +24 1,227 £70,000 +7.69% 588
UK excluding London +25 723 £63,000 +7.24% 441
London +48 592 £80,000 +10.34% 283
Work from Home +38 524 £70,932 +9.55% 317
South East +28 254 £63,000 -3.08% 187
North of England -13 165 £69,000 +31.43% 93
Midlands +4 111 £60,000 - 72
Scotland +31 96 £87,500 +44.05% 22
Yorkshire +17 94 £71,000 +35.24% 23
West Midlands +20 83 £60,000 +4.35% 51
North West -27 61 £63,000 +20.00% 59
South West -4 48 £62,600 +16.47% 33
East of England +23 38 £50,000 -17.93% 31
East Midlands -8 26 £57,500 -11.20% 21
North East -5 10 £53,750 -12.18% 12
Wales +3 8 £67,586 +65.22% 9
Northern Ireland -13 6 £40,500 - 1

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 72 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (4.69%) Apache Spark
3 45 (3.20%) Apache
4 24 (1.70%) Confluence
5 18 (1.28%) Appian
5 18 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.85%) SAS
8 6 (0.43%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.21%) IIS
11 2 (0.14%) Camunda
11 2 (0.14%) Mendix
12 1 (0.071%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.071%) Luigi
12 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 172 (12.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.28%) PlantUML
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
6 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.071%) Notion
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.071%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 30 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.50%) SAP CO
5 7 (0.50%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
6 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
7 3 (0.21%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) iTrent
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.071%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.071%) FLEXCUBE
9 1 (0.071%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.071%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.071%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.071%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 710 (50.43%) Azure
2 439 (31.18%) Power Platform
3 289 (20.53%) AWS
4 194 (13.78%) Snowflake
5 176 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (11.01%) GCP
7 147 (10.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 134 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (7.53%) dbt
10 91 (6.46%) GitHub
11 83 (5.89%) Serverless
12 63 (4.47%) SaaS
13 61 (4.33%) Amazon S3
14 48 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
15 46 (3.27%) Power Automate
16 44 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
17 34 (2.41%) PowerApps
18 31 (2.20%) Collibra
18 31 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) HTTP
2 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.21%) VPN
3 2 (0.14%) Broadband
3 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.071%) ADSL
4 1 (0.071%) DHCP
4 1 (0.071%) DNS
4 1 (0.071%) Internet
4 1 (0.071%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.071%) Modbus
4 1 (0.071%) MQTT
4 1 (0.071%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.071%) TCAP
4 1 (0.071%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 410 (29.12%) Power BI
2 376 (26.70%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (17.19%) Data Lake
4 183 (13.00%) Metadata
5 128 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 93 (6.61%) Tableau
7 76 (5.40%) SAP BW
8 66 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 63 (4.47%) NoSQL
10 62 (4.40%) Power Query
11 60 (4.26%) Relational Database
12 58 (4.12%) MySQL
13 54 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
14 53 (3.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 46 (3.27%) Big Data
15 46 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 41 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
17 38 (2.70%) BigQuery
18 33 (2.34%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 88 (6.25%) Git
2 60 (4.26%) JIRA
3 33 (2.34%) ERwin
4 20 (1.42%) ER Studio
5 17 (1.21%) MLflow
6 15 (1.07%) Postman
7 13 (0.92%) Jenkins
8 12 (0.85%) GitLab
9 8 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.50%) JUnit
11 6 (0.43%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) git-flow
13 3 (0.21%) Gradle
13 3 (0.21%) Maven
13 3 (0.21%) NUnit
13 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.21%) Snyk
13 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.21%) TestNG
14 2 (0.14%) Checkstyle
General
1 577 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 502 (35.65%) Finance
3 372 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 87 (6.18%) Marketing
7 70 (4.97%) Banking
8 67 (4.76%) Law
9 52 (3.69%) Financial Institution
10 41 (2.91%) Retail
11 32 (2.27%) Retail Banking
12 31 (2.20%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.99%) Legal
14 25 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.56%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.28%) Advertising
19 13 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
19 13 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 326 (23.15%) Architect
2 266 (18.89%) Senior
3 254 (18.04%) Data Engineer
4 224 (15.91%) Data Architect
5 211 (14.99%) Analyst
6 189 (13.42%) Lead
7 141 (10.01%) Developer
8 99 (7.03%) Data Analyst
9 87 (6.18%) Senior Data Engineer
10 49 (3.48%) Consultant
11 43 (3.05%) Lead Data Engineer
12 41 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 40 (2.84%) Report Analyst
14 39 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
15 37 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Lead
16 36 (2.56%) Business Analyst
16 36 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 36 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
18 32 (2.27%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (7.74%) REST
2 70 (4.97%) Kafka
3 55 (3.91%) SOAP
4 46 (3.27%) .NET
5 45 (3.20%) PySpark
6 41 (2.91%) RESTful
7 38 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
8 35 (2.49%) JSON
9 32 (2.27%) CSS
10 29 (2.06%) OpenAPI
10 29 (2.06%) React
10 29 (2.06%) Swagger
11 28 (1.99%) HTML
11 28 (1.99%) Middleware
12 26 (1.85%) XML
13 22 (1.56%) Web Services
14 20 (1.42%) Django
14 20 (1.42%) Pandas
14 20 (1.42%) PyTorch
14 20 (1.42%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 85 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 83 (5.89%) Data Structures
4 63 (4.47%) Management Information System
5 55 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 30 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (2.06%) Low-Code
10 24 (1.70%) Onboarding
11 19 (1.35%) Reinsurance
12 16 (1.14%) FMCG
13 15 (1.07%) e-Learning
14 14 (0.99%) Fixed Income
15 13 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (0.71%) Life Science
17 9 (0.64%) Public Cloud
17 9 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.78%) Unix
2 10 (0.71%) Linux
3 9 (0.64%) Windows
4 7 (0.50%) Android
5 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (44.96%) Analytics
2 527 (37.43%) Business Intelligence
3 451 (32.03%) ETL
4 416 (29.55%) Data Governance
5 400 (28.41%) Agile
6 390 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
7 350 (24.86%) Data Architecture
7 350 (24.86%) Data Engineering
8 321 (22.80%) CI/CD
8 321 (22.80%) Data Pipeline
9 306 (21.73%) Decision-Making
10 287 (20.38%) DevOps
11 271 (19.25%) AI
12 231 (16.41%) Data Integration
13 224 (15.91%) Mentoring
14 193 (13.71%) Data Strategy
15 189 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 184 (13.07%) Data Management
17 169 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
18 164 (11.65%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 652 (46.31%) SQL
2 537 (38.14%) Python
3 105 (7.46%) Java
4 89 (6.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 86 (6.11%) JavaScript
6 85 (6.04%) C#
7 65 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.48%) Scala
9 41 (2.91%) T-SQL
10 39 (2.77%) Apex Code
11 33 (2.34%) PowerShell
12 27 (1.92%) R
13 19 (1.35%) Bash
14 12 (0.85%) C++
15 11 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.78%) VBA
16 10 (0.71%) ANSI SQL
17 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.43%) PHP
17 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 305 (21.66%) Degree
2 104 (7.39%) Security Cleared
3 90 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 77 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 67 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 60 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 48 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 34 (2.41%) Master's Degree
10 29 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.49%) DV Cleared
12 16 (1.14%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.71%) ACCA
14 10 (0.71%) CIMA
15 9 (0.64%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.64%) PMP
16 8 (0.57%) OCP
16 8 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
16 8 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (30.04%) Data Quality
2 82 (5.82%) GDPR
3 78 (5.54%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.84%) QA
5 25 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 17 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.64%) SLA
8 8 (0.57%) MiFID
9 6 (0.43%) GRC
10 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 4 (0.28%) COBIT
11 4 (0.28%) ITGC
11 4 (0.28%) NIST
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.071%) IFRS
13 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.071%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (3.55%) Docker
2 10 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.57%) HDFS
4 7 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.071%) iptables
6 1 (0.071%) KVM
6 1 (0.071%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 57 (4.05%) Terraform
2 42 (2.98%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.50%) Ansible
3 7 (0.50%) Control-M
3 7 (0.50%) Data Guard
3 7 (0.50%) Grafana
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.28%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.071%) Argo
5 1 (0.071%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.071%) Puppet
Vendors
1 334 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.34%) Databricks
3 165 (11.72%) SAP
4 83 (5.89%) Salesforce
5 74 (5.26%) Oracle
6 52 (3.69%) Informatica
7 45 (3.20%) Google
8 33 (2.34%) Talend
9 29 (2.06%) Palantir
10 25 (1.78%) Foundry
11 21 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.28%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.21%) MuleSoft
14 16 (1.14%) UiPath
15 14 (0.99%) IBM
16 13 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
16 13 (0.92%) Workday
17 12 (0.85%) Sparx
18 10 (0.71%) Dataiku
19 9 (0.64%) Siemens