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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 130 97
Rank change year-on-year +27 -33 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,405 1,159 2,109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.08% 2.37% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.56% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 797 596 1,421
10th Percentile £43,650 £38,750 £42,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £98,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,500 £58,987 £57,000
% change year-on-year +7.65% +3.49% -0.87%

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 53,577 45,271 66,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.42% 92.38% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,051 21,953 51,270
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,504 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +10.01% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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% -8.90%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +27 1,209 £70,000 +8.11% 674
UK excluding London +8 681 £63,500 +7.65% 540
London +53 612 £80,000 +10.34% 285
Work from Home +37 553 £70,932 +9.55% 311
South East +10 198 £62,500 - 206
North of England -13 171 £70,000 +33.33% 102
Midlands +2 110 £60,000 - 112
Scotland +20 94 £87,500 +41.42% 36
Yorkshire -5 94 £74,250 +41.43% 27
West Midlands +11 83 £60,000 +4.35% 78
North West -21 67 £65,000 +26.83% 63
South West -16 48 £64,350 +17.00% 43
East of England +26 46 £56,250 -10.71% 35
East Midlands -9 25 £57,500 -11.20% 34
Wales -2 10 £67,586 +80.23% 10
North East -10 10 £52,500 -14.22% 13
Northern Ireland -22 6 £40,500 - 3

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 86 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.77%) Apache Spark
3 50 (3.56%) Apache
4 20 (1.42%) Confluence
5 19 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 17 (1.21%) Appian
8 16 (1.14%) SAS
9 8 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.50%) CMS
11 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.21%) Apache Superset
12 3 (0.21%) IIS
13 2 (0.14%) Camunda
13 2 (0.14%) Mendix
14 1 (0.071%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.071%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.071%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 105 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.21%) Sketch
6 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) PlantUML
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 32 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.43%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.071%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.071%) iTrent
8 1 (0.071%) Misys Opics
8 1 (0.071%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.071%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.071%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.071%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.071%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.071%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 682 (48.54%) Azure
2 405 (28.83%) Power Platform
3 293 (20.85%) AWS
4 196 (13.95%) Snowflake
5 185 (13.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 165 (11.74%) GCP
7 151 (10.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 136 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (8.97%) dbt
10 91 (6.48%) GitHub
11 87 (6.19%) Serverless
12 68 (4.84%) SaaS
13 66 (4.70%) Amazon S3
14 51 (3.63%) Power Automate
15 47 (3.35%) GitHub Copilot
16 45 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
17 38 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
18 37 (2.63%) PowerApps
19 31 (2.21%) Collibra
19 31 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.43%) Broadband
2 5 (0.36%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.21%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) ADSL
5 1 (0.071%) CTI
5 1 (0.071%) DHCP
5 1 (0.071%) DNS
5 1 (0.071%) Internet
5 1 (0.071%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.071%) Modbus
5 1 (0.071%) MQTT
5 1 (0.071%) Network Security
5 1 (0.071%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.071%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (27.54%) Data Warehouse
2 372 (26.48%) Power BI
3 207 (14.73%) Data Lake
4 194 (13.81%) Metadata
5 129 (9.18%) SQL Server
6 93 (6.62%) Tableau
7 71 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 68 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 64 (4.56%) NoSQL
10 63 (4.48%) Relational Database
11 61 (4.34%) MySQL
11 61 (4.34%) Power Query
12 59 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
13 53 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 49 (3.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 48 (3.42%) BigQuery
16 39 (2.78%) Big Data
16 39 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
17 35 (2.49%) Data Vault
18 34 (2.42%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 95 (6.76%) Git
2 55 (3.91%) JIRA
3 35 (2.49%) ERwin
4 19 (1.35%) ER Studio
5 18 (1.28%) Postman
6 17 (1.21%) MLflow
7 12 (0.85%) GitLab
7 12 (0.85%) Jenkins
8 8 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.50%) JUnit
10 6 (0.43%) Selenium
11 5 (0.36%) git-flow
12 3 (0.21%) Gradle
12 3 (0.21%) Maven
12 3 (0.21%) NUnit
12 3 (0.21%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.21%) Snyk
12 3 (0.21%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.21%) TestNG
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 552 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 502 (35.73%) Finance
3 370 (26.33%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 85 (6.05%) Marketing
7 73 (5.20%) Law
8 66 (4.70%) Banking
9 52 (3.70%) Financial Institution
10 39 (2.78%) Retail
11 31 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 29 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
12 29 (2.06%) Retail Banking
13 28 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.78%) Legal
15 23 (1.64%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.42%) Advertising
18 14 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 345 (24.56%) Architect
2 294 (20.93%) Senior
3 279 (19.86%) Data Engineer
4 232 (16.51%) Data Architect
5 188 (13.38%) Analyst
6 153 (10.89%) Lead
7 147 (10.46%) Developer
8 108 (7.69%) Data Analyst
9 101 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
10 57 (4.06%) Consultant
11 44 (3.13%) Lead Data Engineer
12 38 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 37 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
14 36 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 36 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (2.49%) Azure Architect
16 34 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (2.42%) Senior Architect
17 33 (2.35%) Lead Architect
18 31 (2.21%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (8.26%) REST
2 76 (5.41%) Kafka
3 59 (4.20%) SOAP
4 50 (3.56%) PySpark
5 49 (3.49%) .NET
6 45 (3.20%) RESTful
7 44 (3.13%) JSON
8 41 (2.92%) Lightning Web Components
9 34 (2.42%) CSS
10 33 (2.35%) Middleware
11 32 (2.28%) OpenAPI
11 32 (2.28%) React
11 32 (2.28%) Swagger
11 32 (2.28%) XML
12 28 (1.99%) HTML
13 22 (1.57%) Pandas
13 22 (1.57%) Web Services
14 20 (1.42%) Django
14 20 (1.42%) PyTorch
14 20 (1.42%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 102 (7.26%) Data Structures
3 90 (6.41%) Cloud Native
4 65 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 62 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
7 36 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 33 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 30 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.06%) Low-Code
11 20 (1.42%) Reinsurance
12 17 (1.21%) e-Learning
12 17 (1.21%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.00%) FMCG
14 12 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.71%) Life Science
15 10 (0.71%) SCADA
16 9 (0.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.85%) Linux
2 10 (0.71%) Unix
2 10 (0.71%) Windows
3 7 (0.50%) Android
4 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (44.27%) Analytics
2 489 (34.80%) Business Intelligence
3 460 (32.74%) ETL
4 411 (29.25%) Data Governance
5 406 (28.90%) Agile
6 376 (26.76%) Data Engineering
7 358 (25.48%) Data Architecture
8 336 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
9 332 (23.63%) Data Pipeline
10 328 (23.35%) CI/CD
11 315 (22.42%) Decision-Making
12 294 (20.93%) DevOps
13 283 (20.14%) AI
14 240 (17.08%) Mentoring
15 236 (16.80%) Data Integration
16 199 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 191 (13.59%) Data Strategy
18 182 (12.95%) Data Management
19 174 (12.38%) Data Science
20 162 (11.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 682 (48.54%) SQL
2 569 (40.50%) Python
3 118 (8.40%) Java
4 92 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 89 (6.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 86 (6.12%) C#
7 68 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 49 (3.49%) Scala
9 44 (3.13%) T-SQL
10 42 (2.99%) Apex Code
11 36 (2.56%) PowerShell
12 30 (2.14%) R
13 19 (1.35%) Bash
14 18 (1.28%) C++
15 13 (0.93%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.78%) VBA
17 9 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
18 7 (0.50%) PHP
19 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
19 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 250 (17.79%) Degree
2 116 (8.26%) Security Cleared
3 96 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 86 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 70 (4.98%) Azure Certification
6 61 (4.34%) AWS Certification
7 51 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (2.49%) Master's Degree
10 30 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.57%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.35%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.85%) ACCA
13 12 (0.85%) CIMA
13 12 (0.85%) Six Sigma Green Belt
14 10 (0.71%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.71%) PMP
15 8 (0.57%) SAP Certification
15 8 (0.57%) SnowPro
16 7 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (27.40%) Data Quality
2 80 (5.69%) GDPR
3 77 (5.48%) Accessibility
4 36 (2.56%) QA
5 26 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 19 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.71%) SLA
8 9 (0.64%) MiFID
9 5 (0.36%) GRC
9 5 (0.36%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.21%) COBIT
11 3 (0.21%) ITGC
11 3 (0.21%) NIST
12 2 (0.14%) PMO
12 2 (0.14%) PSD2
12 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.14%) WCAG
13 1 (0.071%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.071%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (3.84%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.50%) HDFS
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.071%) iptables
6 1 (0.071%) KVM
6 1 (0.071%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 62 (4.41%) Terraform
2 46 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.71%) Grafana
3 10 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.50%) Control-M
4 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.43%) Ansible
5 6 (0.43%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.21%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.071%) Argo
Vendors
1 345 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 226 (16.09%) Databricks
3 102 (7.26%) SAP
4 85 (6.05%) Salesforce
5 77 (5.48%) Oracle
6 54 (3.84%) Informatica
7 45 (3.20%) Google
8 32 (2.28%) Palantir
8 32 (2.28%) Talend
9 28 (1.99%) Foundry
10 21 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.42%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 16 (1.14%) UiPath
14 14 (1.00%) Sparx
15 13 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
15 13 (0.93%) IBM
15 13 (0.93%) Workday
16 10 (0.71%) Cisco
16 10 (0.71%) Dataiku