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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 128 119
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,675 1,181 2,246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.42% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.68% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,156 612 1,473
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £65,000 £67,900
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -4.27% +0.59%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%

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 72,161 44,144 84,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.58% 82.41%
Number of salaries quoted 49,802 24,628 59,539
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +21 1,524 £69,973 +4.44% 737
UK excluding London +4 803 £62,500 +4.17% 459
London +26 702 £80,000 +6.67% 404
Work from Home +29 538 £65,000 - 332
North of England +87 301 £62,750 +4.58% 117
South East -43 187 £60,000 -7.69% 142
Midlands +3 150 £60,000 -4.00% 79
North West +59 142 £61,500 +14.42% 67
Yorkshire +31 112 £67,500 +12.50% 30
West Midlands -3 105 £62,500 +8.70% 39
South West -76 72 £60,000 -4.00% 69
East of England -6 54 £71,000 +18.33% 12
North East -7 47 £65,000 +36.84% 21
East Midlands -21 45 £57,000 -10.24% 40
Scotland -24 24 £70,000 +11.11% 24
Wales - 12 £67,586 - 13
Northern Ireland -60 3 £60,000 - 7

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
1 140 (8.36%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (6.75%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.72%) Apache
4 33 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.01%) SAS
7 14 (0.84%) Confluence
8 13 (0.78%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.48%) CMS
9 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.24%) Appian
11 4 (0.24%) WordPress
12 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 3 (0.18%) IIS
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.12%) CICS
13 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 78 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) Blender
5 3 (0.18%) Maya
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.060%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.19%) SAP MDG
3 19 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.60%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.48%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.42%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 670 (40.00%) Azure
2 471 (28.12%) Power Platform
3 432 (25.79%) AWS
4 254 (15.16%) GCP
5 174 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 157 (9.37%) Snowflake
7 140 (8.36%) dbt
8 128 (7.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 101 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (5.31%) Serverless
11 86 (5.13%) Amazon S3
12 65 (3.88%) SaaS
13 60 (3.58%) Power Automate
14 52 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.10%) PowerApps
15 44 (2.63%) GitHub
16 40 (2.39%) Dynamics 365
17 37 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
18 33 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
19 31 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.63%) Broadband
2 5 (0.30%) BGP
2 5 (0.30%) DNS
2 5 (0.30%) IPsec
2 5 (0.30%) VPN
3 4 (0.24%) Internet
3 4 (0.24%) NGN
4 3 (0.18%) LTE
4 3 (0.18%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) 4G
5 2 (0.12%) 5G
5 2 (0.12%) SMS
5 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
6 1 (0.060%) CTI
6 1 (0.060%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 433 (25.85%) Power BI
2 334 (19.94%) Data Warehouse
3 206 (12.30%) Data Lake
4 193 (11.52%) Metadata
5 123 (7.34%) SQL Server
6 121 (7.22%) Tableau
7 109 (6.51%) Relational Database
8 90 (5.37%) BigQuery
9 89 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.25%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (4.00%) Big Data
12 66 (3.94%) Star Schema
13 65 (3.88%) Semantic Layer
14 63 (3.76%) MySQL
15 61 (3.64%) NoSQL
16 51 (3.04%) Power Query
16 51 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 50 (2.99%) Delta Lake
18 49 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
19 47 (2.81%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 106 (6.33%) Git
2 38 (2.27%) JIRA
3 33 (1.97%) MLflow
4 32 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.67%) Claude Code
6 13 (0.78%) GitLab
7 12 (0.72%) ERwin
8 10 (0.60%) Postman
9 6 (0.36%) Toad
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.12%) NUnit
12 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
13 1 (0.060%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.060%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 556 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 515 (30.75%) Finance
3 453 (27.04%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 133 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (4.18%) Retail
7 66 (3.94%) Marketing
8 64 (3.82%) Law
9 50 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
9 50 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 41 (2.45%) Legal
11 36 (2.15%) Financial Institution
12 33 (1.97%) Banking
13 23 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.25%) Billing
15 20 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
16 19 (1.13%) Local Government
17 18 (1.07%) Advertising
18 17 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 412 (24.60%) Data Engineer
2 372 (22.21%) Architect
3 360 (21.49%) Senior
4 257 (15.34%) Data Architect
5 207 (12.36%) Analyst
6 199 (11.88%) Developer
7 189 (11.28%) Lead
8 114 (6.81%) Senior Data Engineer
9 108 (6.45%) Data Analyst
10 79 (4.72%) Consultant
11 63 (3.76%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 50 (2.99%) Business Analyst
13 50 (2.99%) Senior Data Architect
14 46 (2.75%) Data Modeller
15 45 (2.69%) Senior Developer
16 44 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 43 (2.57%) Lead Data Engineer
18 39 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
19 38 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (8.06%) REST
2 116 (6.93%) PySpark
3 111 (6.63%) Kafka
4 68 (4.06%) Node.js
5 66 (3.94%) React
6 63 (3.76%) .NET
7 60 (3.58%) JSON
8 59 (3.52%) SOAP
9 57 (3.40%) Middleware
10 50 (2.99%) Lightning Web Components
11 46 (2.75%) XML
12 41 (2.45%) CSS
12 41 (2.45%) LangChain
13 34 (2.03%) RESTful
14 33 (1.97%) PyTorch
14 33 (1.97%) TensorFlow
15 30 (1.79%) HTML
15 30 (1.79%) scikit-learn
15 30 (1.79%) Visualforce
16 29 (1.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 131 (7.82%) Data Structures
3 85 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.54%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 38 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
8 35 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.73%) Low-Code
11 27 (1.61%) Clustering
12 25 (1.49%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.43%) Reinsurance
14 22 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
14 22 (1.31%) Social Media
15 18 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 18 (1.07%) Replication
16 14 (0.84%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.19%) Linux
2 15 (0.90%) Windows
3 2 (0.12%) Unix
4 1 (0.060%) Android
4 1 (0.060%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (47.10%) Analytics
2 578 (34.51%) Business Intelligence
3 529 (31.58%) Data Governance
4 481 (28.72%) AI
5 478 (28.54%) Data Engineering
6 464 (27.70%) ETL
7 445 (26.57%) Data Pipeline
8 438 (26.15%) Decision-Making
9 398 (23.76%) Agile
10 389 (23.22%) CI/CD
10 389 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
11 381 (22.75%) Data Architecture
12 287 (17.13%) DevOps
13 270 (16.12%) Mentoring
14 263 (15.70%) Roadmaps
15 262 (15.64%) Machine Learning
16 242 (14.45%) Data Strategy
17 232 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 185 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 176 (10.51%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 874 (52.18%) SQL
2 693 (41.37%) Python
3 112 (6.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 105 (6.27%) Java
5 81 (4.84%) TypeScript
6 79 (4.72%) JavaScript
7 73 (4.36%) C#
8 56 (3.34%) Scala
9 47 (2.81%) Apex Code
10 42 (2.51%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.49%) R
12 23 (1.37%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.13%) SOQL
14 19 (1.13%) SOSL
15 14 (0.84%) Bash
16 13 (0.78%) Bicep
17 11 (0.66%) C++
18 10 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
19 9 (0.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 203 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 189 (11.28%) Degree
3 123 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.85%) AWS Certification
9 29 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.54%) CIPD
13 9 (0.54%) SnowPro
14 8 (0.48%) ACCA
14 8 (0.48%) CIMA
14 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.24%) CCA
15 4 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 563 (33.61%) Data Quality
2 119 (7.10%) GDPR
3 57 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 55 (3.28%) QA
5 28 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.42%) GRC
8 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.30%) MiFID
9 5 (0.30%) SLA
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS
10 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.24%) PERC
10 4 (0.24%) PMO
11 3 (0.18%) WCAG
12 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 1 (0.060%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.060%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.060%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 87 (5.19%) Docker
2 10 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 101 (6.03%) Terraform
2 59 (3.52%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.72%) Ansible
4 9 (0.54%) Grafana
5 7 (0.42%) Packer
6 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Control-M
9 1 (0.060%) QRadar
9 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.060%) SCCM
Vendors
1 343 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 342 (20.42%) Databricks
3 118 (7.04%) Oracle
4 108 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 100 (5.97%) SAP
6 57 (3.40%) Google
7 34 (2.03%) Informatica
8 27 (1.61%) Cloudera
8 27 (1.61%) Palantir
9 25 (1.49%) Foundry
10 23 (1.37%) Dell
11 18 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.01%) Talend
13 15 (0.90%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.66%) IBM
14 11 (0.66%) Workday
15 10 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 8 (0.48%) HubSpot
17 7 (0.42%) Ariba