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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 133 99
Rank change year-on-year +28 -34 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,382 1,064 2,189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 2.33% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 2.50% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 808 568 1,441
10th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,938 £51,250 £51,143
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.49% -7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,875 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,350 £58,850 £57,046
% change year-on-year +9.35% +3.16% -0.79%

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 55,531 42,488 69,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.63% 93.22% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 33,358 21,624 53,124
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,900 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 3 March 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 March 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 +29 1,185 £70,000 +12.00% 758
UK excluding London 0 646 £64,350 +9.35% 529
London +64 619 £80,000 +10.34% 334
Work from Home +35 544 £70,932 +13.49% 417
South East +27 178 £62,500 - 195
North of England -23 160 £70,000 +33.33% 135
Midlands -7 110 £60,000 - 100
Scotland +3 90 £87,500 +44.05% 18
West Midlands +20 86 £60,000 +4.35% 78
Yorkshire 0 86 £75,000 +42.86% 42
North West -21 64 £67,500 +48.96% 76
South West -51 48 £64,350 +17.00% 44
East of England +15 44 £56,250 -12.11% 29
East Midlands -28 22 £52,250 -19.31% 22
Wales -3 10 £67,586 +80.23% 8
North East -14 10 £52,500 -14.22% 20
Northern Ireland -24 6 £40,500 - 2

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 93 (6.73%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (4.70%) Apache Spark
3 51 (3.69%) Apache
4 19 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.30%) Confluence
5 18 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.23%) Appian
7 16 (1.16%) SAS
8 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.51%) CMS
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.22%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.22%) IIS
12 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.14%) Mendix
13 1 (0.072%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.072%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.072%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 82 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.22%) Sketch
6 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) Windchill
8 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.072%) Notion
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.072%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 30 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.01%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.072%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.072%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.072%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.072%) Misys Opics
8 1 (0.072%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.072%) Primavera
8 1 (0.072%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 661 (47.83%) Azure
2 392 (28.36%) Power Platform
3 284 (20.55%) AWS
4 198 (14.33%) Snowflake
5 186 (13.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 165 (11.94%) GCP
7 150 (10.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 136 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (9.04%) dbt
10 86 (6.22%) GitHub
11 84 (6.08%) Serverless
12 66 (4.78%) Amazon S3
13 65 (4.70%) SaaS
14 58 (4.20%) Power Automate
15 45 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
15 45 (3.26%) PowerApps
16 44 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (2.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 33 (2.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.43%) Broadband
2 5 (0.36%) HTTP
3 3 (0.22%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.22%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.072%) 4G
5 1 (0.072%) 5G
5 1 (0.072%) ADSL
5 1 (0.072%) CTI
5 1 (0.072%) DHCP
5 1 (0.072%) DNS
5 1 (0.072%) Internet
5 1 (0.072%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.072%) Modbus
5 1 (0.072%) MQTT
5 1 (0.072%) Network Security
5 1 (0.072%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.072%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (27.21%) Data Warehouse
2 358 (25.90%) Power BI
3 195 (14.11%) Metadata
4 181 (13.10%) Data Lake
5 127 (9.19%) SQL Server
6 89 (6.44%) Tableau
7 70 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 70 (5.07%) Relational Database
8 68 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 64 (4.63%) Power Query
10 63 (4.56%) NoSQL
11 56 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (3.98%) MySQL
13 53 (3.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 50 (3.62%) BigQuery
15 48 (3.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (2.39%) Data Vault
18 32 (2.32%) Big Data
19 27 (1.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 100 (7.24%) Git
2 52 (3.76%) JIRA
3 33 (2.39%) ERwin
4 19 (1.37%) Postman
5 17 (1.23%) MLflow
6 15 (1.09%) ER Studio
7 12 (0.87%) GitLab
8 10 (0.72%) Jenkins
9 8 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.51%) JUnit
11 6 (0.43%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) git-flow
13 3 (0.22%) Gradle
13 3 (0.22%) Maven
13 3 (0.22%) NUnit
13 3 (0.22%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.22%) Snyk
13 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.22%) TestNG
13 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 532 (38.49%) Social Skills
2 491 (35.53%) Finance
3 364 (26.34%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 81 (5.86%) Marketing
7 68 (4.92%) Law
8 63 (4.56%) Banking
9 54 (3.91%) Financial Institution
10 36 (2.60%) Retail
11 30 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (1.95%) Retail Banking
13 23 (1.66%) Legal
13 23 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
15 19 (1.37%) Advertising
16 14 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 340 (24.60%) Architect
2 285 (20.62%) Data Engineer
3 282 (20.41%) Senior
4 229 (16.57%) Data Architect
5 173 (12.52%) Analyst
6 149 (10.78%) Developer
7 144 (10.42%) Lead
8 107 (7.74%) Data Analyst
9 100 (7.24%) Senior Data Engineer
10 59 (4.27%) Consultant
11 43 (3.11%) Lead Data Engineer
12 37 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 37 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 35 (2.53%) Senior Architect
14 34 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
15 33 (2.39%) Azure Engineer
15 33 (2.39%) Lead Architect
16 32 (2.32%) Azure Architect
16 32 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (2.24%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (8.47%) REST
2 77 (5.57%) Kafka
3 63 (4.56%) SOAP
4 52 (3.76%) PySpark
5 48 (3.47%) .NET
6 45 (3.26%) JSON
6 45 (3.26%) Lightning Web Components
6 45 (3.26%) RESTful
7 36 (2.60%) Middleware
8 34 (2.46%) XML
9 33 (2.39%) CSS
9 33 (2.39%) OpenAPI
9 33 (2.39%) Swagger
10 32 (2.32%) React
11 27 (1.95%) HTML
12 24 (1.74%) Pandas
13 23 (1.66%) Visualforce
14 21 (1.52%) Web Services
15 20 (1.45%) Django
15 20 (1.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.96%) Product Ownership
2 105 (7.60%) Data Structures
3 90 (6.51%) Cloud Native
4 62 (4.49%) Management Information System
5 59 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 36 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (2.53%) Low-Code
9 34 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 33 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.45%) Reinsurance
14 19 (1.37%) e-Learning
15 18 (1.30%) Fixed Income
16 13 (0.94%) FMCG
17 10 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
17 10 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (0.72%) Life Science
17 10 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.94%) Linux
2 11 (0.80%) Windows
3 9 (0.65%) Unix
4 7 (0.51%) Android
5 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (45.01%) Analytics
2 475 (34.37%) Business Intelligence
3 459 (33.21%) ETL
4 413 (29.88%) Data Governance
5 404 (29.23%) Agile
6 380 (27.50%) Data Engineering
7 360 (26.05%) Data Architecture
8 335 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
9 331 (23.95%) CI/CD
10 320 (23.15%) Decision-Making
11 315 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
12 289 (20.91%) AI
13 287 (20.77%) DevOps
14 233 (16.86%) Mentoring
15 227 (16.43%) Data Integration
16 209 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 181 (13.10%) Data Management
18 177 (12.81%) Data Strategy
19 164 (11.87%) Data Science
20 162 (11.72%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 692 (50.07%) SQL
2 571 (41.32%) Python
3 120 (8.68%) Java
4 92 (6.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 89 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 85 (6.15%) C#
7 65 (4.70%) TypeScript
8 47 (3.40%) Apex Code
9 44 (3.18%) T-SQL
10 42 (3.04%) Scala
11 34 (2.46%) PowerShell
12 28 (2.03%) R
13 19 (1.37%) Bash
13 19 (1.37%) C++
14 14 (1.01%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.80%) VBA
16 9 (0.65%) ANSI SQL
17 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.43%) SOQL
17 6 (0.43%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 219 (15.85%) Degree
2 122 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 92 (6.66%) SC Cleared
4 91 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (5.21%) Azure Certification
6 59 (4.27%) AWS Certification
7 49 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (2.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (2.39%) Master's Degree
10 29 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.59%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.37%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.87%) ACCA
13 12 (0.87%) CIMA
13 12 (0.87%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 11 (0.80%) PMI Certification
14 11 (0.80%) PMP
15 9 (0.65%) SAP Certification
16 7 (0.51%) SnowPro
17 6 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 377 (27.28%) Data Quality
2 79 (5.72%) Accessibility
3 74 (5.35%) GDPR
4 36 (2.60%) QA
5 26 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.72%) SLA
8 9 (0.65%) MiFID
9 6 (0.43%) GRC
10 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.14%) COBIT
12 2 (0.14%) ITGC
12 2 (0.14%) NIST
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.072%) HL7
13 1 (0.072%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (4.20%) Docker
2 14 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) HDFS
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.072%) Firmware
4 1 (0.072%) iptables
4 1 (0.072%) KVM
4 1 (0.072%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 64 (4.63%) Terraform
2 49 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.87%) Grafana
4 10 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.51%) Control-M
7 6 (0.43%) Ansible
8 5 (0.36%) Data Guard
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.14%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.072%) Argo
Vendors
1 344 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 219 (15.85%) Databricks
3 86 (6.22%) Salesforce
4 78 (5.64%) Oracle
5 72 (5.21%) SAP
6 53 (3.84%) Informatica
7 44 (3.18%) Google
8 32 (2.32%) Palantir
9 30 (2.17%) Talend
10 28 (2.03%) Foundry
11 22 (1.59%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.52%) OpenAI
13 16 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.16%) Sparx
13 16 (1.16%) UiPath
14 13 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
14 13 (0.94%) IBM
14 13 (0.94%) Workday
15 10 (0.72%) Cisco
16 9 (0.65%) Siemens