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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 125 113
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,780 1,241 1,806
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.49% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.82% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 650 1,039
10th Percentile £44,750 £44,900 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,923 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% +1.48%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +9.88%

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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 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 3 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 +2 1,641 £70,000 +3.70% 1,919
UK excluding London -2 880 £62,500 - 952
London +6 745 £82,500 +6.45% 1,239
Work from Home +39 544 £65,000 -3.70% 888
North of England +79 345 £64,250 +7.08% 233
South East -74 193 £62,500 -3.85% 231
North West +66 151 £62,500 +8.70% 155
Midlands -9 150 £60,900 -4.09% 136
Yorkshire -3 112 £67,500 - 57
West Midlands -1 107 £62,500 +3.31% 95
South West -27 101 £69,973 +11.96% 133
North East +7 82 £60,000 +20.00% 22
East of England -25 51 £65,000 +8.33% 70
East Midlands -26 43 £59,366 -10.39% 41
Scotland -1 25 £70,000 +14.29% 87
Wales - 17 £63,500 - 19
Northern Ireland -87 2 £60,000 - 53

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
1 114 (6.40%) Apache Spark
2 112 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (4.78%) Apache
4 33 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 24 (1.35%) Confluence
6 18 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.67%) SAS
8 7 (0.39%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.056%) JBoss
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.056%) Umbraco
Applications
1 78 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
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 32 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.07%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
9 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
11 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
12 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 695 (39.04%) Azure
2 518 (29.10%) Power Platform
3 453 (25.45%) AWS
4 248 (13.93%) GCP
5 191 (10.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 159 (8.93%) Snowflake
7 135 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 134 (7.53%) dbt
9 127 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (5.28%) Amazon S3
11 93 (5.22%) Serverless
12 74 (4.16%) SaaS
13 70 (3.93%) Azure Databricks
14 64 (3.60%) Power Automate
15 62 (3.48%) GitHub
15 62 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 57 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
17 54 (3.03%) PowerApps
18 52 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
19 38 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.13%) Broadband
2 10 (0.56%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 5 (0.28%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) DMZ
5 4 (0.22%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.22%) IPv4
5 4 (0.22%) Modbus
5 4 (0.22%) NGN
5 4 (0.22%) OSPF
5 4 (0.22%) VLAN
6 3 (0.17%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.056%) 4G
8 1 (0.056%) 5G
8 1 (0.056%) ATM
8 1 (0.056%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (26.80%) Power BI
2 365 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
3 233 (13.09%) Metadata
4 226 (12.70%) Data Lake
5 137 (7.70%) Tableau
6 131 (7.36%) SQL Server
7 105 (5.90%) Relational Database
8 91 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
9 89 (5.00%) Star Schema
10 88 (4.94%) BigQuery
11 81 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 81 (4.55%) Big Data
12 78 (4.38%) Semantic Layer
13 71 (3.99%) NoSQL
14 70 (3.93%) Delta Lake
15 62 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
16 59 (3.31%) Data Vault
17 55 (3.09%) Power Query
18 54 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
19 53 (2.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 140 (7.87%) Git
2 48 (2.70%) JIRA
3 45 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 38 (2.13%) Claude Code
5 25 (1.40%) MLflow
6 24 (1.35%) GitLab
7 9 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.34%) Ant
8 6 (0.34%) Toad
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.11%) YouTrack
General
1 614 (34.49%) Social Skills
2 560 (31.46%) Finance
3 473 (26.57%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 90 (5.06%) Marketing
7 84 (4.72%) Retail
8 75 (4.21%) Law
9 66 (3.71%) Legal
10 62 (3.48%) Manufacturing
11 54 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.58%) Banking
13 28 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 27 (1.52%) Billing
15 24 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.79%) Front Office
18 14 (0.79%) Local Government
18 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 426 (23.93%) Data Engineer
2 413 (23.20%) Architect
3 389 (21.85%) Senior
4 305 (17.13%) Data Architect
5 200 (11.24%) Analyst
6 185 (10.39%) Developer
7 183 (10.28%) Lead
8 107 (6.01%) Senior Data Engineer
9 97 (5.45%) Data Analyst
10 75 (4.21%) Consultant
11 63 (3.54%) Senior Architect
12 57 (3.20%) Business Analyst
13 55 (3.09%) Data Modeller
14 53 (2.98%) Senior Data Architect
15 49 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 47 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
17 46 (2.58%) Databricks Engineer
18 44 (2.47%) Senior Developer
19 43 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
20 40 (2.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (8.43%) PySpark
2 124 (6.97%) REST
3 110 (6.18%) Terraform
4 105 (5.90%) Kafka
5 67 (3.76%) Node.js
6 65 (3.65%) React
7 56 (3.15%) .NET
8 52 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
9 49 (2.75%) SOAP
10 48 (2.70%) Middleware
11 46 (2.58%) JSON
12 36 (2.02%) LangChain
13 35 (1.97%) CSS
13 35 (1.97%) XML
14 30 (1.69%) AngularJS
15 25 (1.40%) RESTful
16 21 (1.18%) Next.js
16 21 (1.18%) PyTorch
16 21 (1.18%) TensorFlow
16 21 (1.18%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 179 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.46%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.73%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 66 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
6 45 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 35 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 35 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
13 25 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.24%) Clustering
15 20 (1.12%) Reinsurance
16 19 (1.07%) Replication
16 19 (1.07%) Social Media
16 19 (1.07%) Taxonomies
17 18 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.29%) Linux
1 23 (1.29%) 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
1 826 (46.40%) Analytics
2 636 (35.73%) Business Intelligence
3 610 (34.27%) AI
4 536 (30.11%) Data Governance
5 503 (28.26%) Data Engineering
6 493 (27.70%) ETL
7 476 (26.74%) Data Pipeline
8 456 (25.62%) Decision-Making
9 454 (25.51%) Data Architecture
10 449 (25.22%) Agile
11 432 (24.27%) CI/CD
12 393 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
13 326 (18.31%) Roadmaps
14 319 (17.92%) DevOps
15 291 (16.35%) Mentoring
16 283 (15.90%) Data Strategy
17 280 (15.73%) Machine Learning
18 252 (14.16%) Lakehouse
19 245 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
20 244 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 916 (51.46%) SQL
2 708 (39.78%) Python
3 117 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 97 (5.45%) Java
5 88 (4.94%) C#
6 85 (4.78%) TypeScript
7 75 (4.21%) Scala
8 67 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 46 (2.58%) Apex Code
10 36 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.46%) R
12 20 (1.12%) Bicep
13 18 (1.01%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.01%) SOQL
14 17 (0.96%) SOSL
15 12 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.62%) Bash
16 11 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.45%) Go
17 8 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 227 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 194 (10.90%) Degree
3 134 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 50 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 31 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.63%) DBS Check
10 28 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.01%) SnowPro
12 15 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.51%) CIPD
15 6 (0.34%) IIBA
15 6 (0.34%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.28%) ACCA
16 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 638 (35.84%) Data Quality
2 128 (7.19%) GDPR
3 80 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 70 (3.93%) QA
5 27 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.39%) IFRS
6 7 (0.39%) PMO
6 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 5 (0.28%) WCAG
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%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (5.17%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 59 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.01%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Grafana
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
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
1 410 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 349 (19.61%) Databricks
3 107 (6.01%) Salesforce
4 105 (5.90%) Oracle
5 103 (5.79%) SAP
6 65 (3.65%) Google
7 32 (1.80%) Informatica
8 20 (1.12%) Foundry
8 20 (1.12%) Talend
9 19 (1.07%) Palantir
10 18 (1.01%) Cloudera
11 17 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 16 (0.90%) Dell
12 16 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 14 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 11 (0.62%) IBM
15 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.45%) SYSPRO