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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 116 107
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,246 1,469 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.30% 2.27% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.65% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 654 805 1,107
10th Percentile £45,750 £39,850 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,270 £85,000
90th Percentile £109,625 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £56,975
% change year-on-year +4.17% +5.31% -0.91%

All Process and 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 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +9 1,129 £70,000 +4.09% 545
UK excluding London +12 662 £62,500 +4.17% 451
London +20 535 £84,336 +12.45% 290
Work from Home +22 426 £68,000 -2.37% 298
South East +21 237 £63,000 +0.80% 227
North of England -18 141 £67,500 +12.50% 53
Midlands +59 121 £60,000 +4.80% 63
West Midlands +51 82 £60,000 +9.09% 46
Yorkshire +2 74 £68,000 +29.52% 9
Scotland +14 73 £81,292 +41.38% 28
North West -22 55 £62,500 - 35
East of England +41 45 £57,500 +15.00% 39
South West -14 43 £64,350 -8.07% 33
East Midlands +37 39 £67,500 +3.85% 16
North East +10 12 £51,250 -6.82% 10
Northern Ireland - 6 £40,500 - 1
Wales +8 5 £37,500 -12.28% 13

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 77 (6.18%) Apache Spark
2 41 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.97%) Apache
4 22 (1.77%) Confluence
5 16 (1.28%) SAS
6 15 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.96%) Appian
8 5 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
9 3 (0.24%) CMS
9 3 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.16%) Mendix
11 1 (0.080%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.080%) OpenStack
Applications
1 160 (12.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.32%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.080%) Notion
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.080%) Simulink
8 1 (0.080%) Sketch
8 1 (0.080%) Trello
8 1 (0.080%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.64%) SAP CO
3 8 (0.64%) SAP FI
3 8 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
4 6 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.48%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.24%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.16%) iTrent
6 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP MDG-S
6 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.080%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.080%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.080%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.080%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.080%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.080%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 661 (53.05%) Azure
2 411 (32.99%) Power Platform
3 283 (22.71%) AWS
4 179 (14.37%) Snowflake
5 160 (12.84%) GCP
6 114 (9.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 114 (9.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 96 (7.70%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (7.22%) dbt
9 78 (6.26%) GitHub
10 71 (5.70%) Serverless
11 52 (4.17%) SaaS
12 46 (3.69%) Amazon S3
13 41 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
15 32 (2.57%) Power Automate
16 31 (2.49%) PowerApps
17 28 (2.25%) Collibra
17 28 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
18 22 (1.77%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.16%) Broadband
2 2 (0.16%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.080%) ADSL
3 1 (0.080%) DHCP
3 1 (0.080%) DNS
3 1 (0.080%) Internet
3 1 (0.080%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.080%) Modbus
3 1 (0.080%) MQTT
3 1 (0.080%) SAN
3 1 (0.080%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (32.50%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (31.62%) Power BI
3 218 (17.50%) Data Lake
4 147 (11.80%) Metadata
5 112 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 86 (6.90%) Tableau
7 76 (6.10%) SAP BW
8 66 (5.30%) Big Data
8 66 (5.30%) NoSQL
9 63 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 55 (4.41%) Power Query
11 49 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 48 (3.85%) MySQL
13 45 (3.61%) Hadoop
13 45 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
14 44 (3.53%) Relational Database
15 42 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (3.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 38 (3.05%) Data Vault
17 38 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (4.74%) Git
2 58 (4.65%) JIRA
3 31 (2.49%) ERwin
4 22 (1.77%) ER Studio
5 16 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.56%) GitLab
6 7 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
6 7 (0.56%) Selenium
7 6 (0.48%) Postman
8 5 (0.40%) git-flow
8 5 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.40%) Snyk
9 4 (0.32%) MLflow
10 3 (0.24%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.24%) JUnit
10 3 (0.24%) Storybook
11 2 (0.16%) Maven
11 2 (0.16%) Subversion
12 1 (0.080%) LSMW
12 1 (0.080%) Mercurial
General
1 503 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 442 (35.47%) Finance
3 327 (26.24%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (9.15%) Law
5 106 (8.51%) Marketing
6 85 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (5.62%) Retail
8 66 (5.30%) Banking
9 60 (4.82%) Public Sector
10 50 (4.01%) Financial Institution
11 39 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 31 (2.49%) Retail Banking
13 30 (2.41%) Legal
14 23 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 18 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.20%) Advertising
18 13 (1.04%) Electronics
19 11 (0.88%) Investment Banking
19 11 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (23.52%) Architect
2 246 (19.74%) Senior
3 235 (18.86%) Data Engineer
4 218 (17.50%) Data Architect
5 182 (14.61%) Lead
6 180 (14.45%) Analyst
7 129 (10.35%) Developer
8 99 (7.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 66 (5.30%) Data Analyst
10 52 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
11 45 (3.61%) Azure Data Engineer
12 42 (3.37%) Report Analyst
13 40 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Lead
14 39 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 39 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 38 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
16 35 (2.81%) Business Analyst
17 33 (2.65%) Consultant
17 33 (2.65%) Senior Architect
18 28 (2.25%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (6.50%) Kafka
2 66 (5.30%) REST
3 32 (2.57%) .NET
3 32 (2.57%) PySpark
4 31 (2.49%) SOAP
5 30 (2.41%) JSON
6 27 (2.17%) HTML
6 27 (2.17%) RESTful
7 26 (2.09%) CSS
8 25 (2.01%) Lightning Web Components
9 24 (1.93%) React
10 20 (1.61%) XML
11 15 (1.20%) Django
11 15 (1.20%) Middleware
12 13 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (0.96%) Spark Streaming
14 11 (0.88%) AngularJS
15 10 (0.80%) Web Services
16 9 (0.72%) Swagger
16 9 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 72 (5.78%) Cloud Native
3 58 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 42 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 34 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 26 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.61%) FMCG
9 16 (1.28%) e-Learning
10 15 (1.20%) Low-Code
11 12 (0.96%) Reinsurance
12 11 (0.88%) Fixed Income
12 11 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.72%) IoT
14 9 (0.72%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.56%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.72%) Unix
2 6 (0.48%) Linux
3 4 (0.32%) Android
3 4 (0.32%) Windows
4 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (45.91%) Analytics
2 491 (39.41%) Business Intelligence
3 426 (34.19%) ETL
4 359 (28.81%) Data Governance
5 350 (28.09%) Agile
6 336 (26.97%) Problem-Solving
7 324 (26.00%) Data Architecture
8 303 (24.32%) Data Engineering
9 297 (23.84%) Data Pipeline
10 265 (21.27%) Decision-Making
11 255 (20.47%) CI/CD
12 245 (19.66%) AI
13 240 (19.26%) DevOps
14 220 (17.66%) Data Integration
15 195 (15.65%) Data Strategy
16 191 (15.33%) Mentoring
17 179 (14.37%) Data Management
18 174 (13.96%) Continuous Improvement
19 167 (13.40%) Data Science
20 160 (12.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 579 (46.47%) SQL
2 454 (36.44%) Python
3 87 (6.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 73 (5.86%) Java
5 65 (5.22%) C#
6 64 (5.14%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 42 (3.37%) Scala
9 33 (2.65%) T-SQL
10 30 (2.41%) R
11 25 (2.01%) Apex Code
12 20 (1.61%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.12%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.96%) Bash
15 10 (0.80%) C++
16 7 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
17 6 (0.48%) Go
18 5 (0.40%) Fortran
18 5 (0.40%) PHP
19 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 262 (21.03%) Degree
2 67 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 60 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 59 (4.74%) Azure Certification
5 56 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 46 (3.69%) SC Cleared
7 42 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (1.61%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.36%) DV Cleared
12 12 (0.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 10 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (0.80%) SnowPro
14 8 (0.64%) OCP
15 7 (0.56%) CISA
15 7 (0.56%) CISM
15 7 (0.56%) CISSP
15 7 (0.56%) CRISC
15 7 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (26.81%) Data Quality
2 91 (7.30%) GDPR
3 67 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.93%) QA
5 27 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.64%) NIST
8 7 (0.56%) COBIT
8 7 (0.56%) GRC
8 7 (0.56%) ITGC
9 5 (0.40%) MiFID
10 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.16%) PMO
11 2 (0.16%) PSD2
11 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.16%) SLA
11 2 (0.16%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.080%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (2.01%) Docker
2 10 (0.80%) HDFS
3 8 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.080%) iptables
7 1 (0.080%) KVM
7 1 (0.080%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 45 (3.61%) Terraform
2 24 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (0.72%) Ansible
4 8 (0.64%) Data Guard
4 8 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 8 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (0.40%) RSA Archer
6 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 2 (0.16%) logstash
7 2 (0.16%) Oozie
8 1 (0.080%) Argo
8 1 (0.080%) Grafana
8 1 (0.080%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.080%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.080%) Puppet
Vendors
1 283 (22.71%) Microsoft
2 198 (15.89%) Databricks
3 177 (14.21%) SAP
4 70 (5.62%) Oracle
5 62 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.29%) Google
7 35 (2.81%) Informatica
8 23 (1.85%) Talend
9 15 (1.20%) Palantir
10 13 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 10 (0.80%) Dataiku
13 9 (0.72%) IBM
14 8 (0.64%) Delphix
14 8 (0.64%) Foundry
14 8 (0.64%) UiPath
15 7 (0.56%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.56%) Progress
15 7 (0.56%) Siemens
16 6 (0.48%) Cloudera