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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 130 121
Rank change year-on-year +17 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,694 1,199 2,191
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.72% 2.45% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.71% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 619 1,423
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -7.14% +3.70%
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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £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 11 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 11 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 +23 1,542 £69,973 +3.66% 606
UK excluding London +10 811 £62,500 +4.17% 391
London +24 711 £80,000 +6.67% 332
Work from Home +21 546 £65,500 +0.77% 303
North of England +91 303 £62,750 +4.58% 86
South East -46 189 £60,000 -7.69% 129
Midlands -4 150 £60,000 -4.00% 75
North West +57 142 £61,500 +17.14% 47
Yorkshire +36 112 £67,500 +12.50% 19
West Midlands +6 106 £62,500 +8.70% 35
South West -72 76 £60,000 -4.00% 51
East of England -6 54 £71,000 +18.33% 18
North East -9 49 £65,000 +36.84% 21
East Midlands -25 44 £55,000 -13.39% 40
Scotland -26 23 £70,000 +11.11% 23
Wales - 13 £67,586 - 10
Northern Ireland -60 3 £60,000 - 5

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
1 141 (8.32%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (6.79%) Apache Spark
3 82 (4.84%) Apache
4 33 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.00%) SAS
7 14 (0.83%) Confluence
7 14 (0.83%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.47%) CMS
8 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.24%) WordPress
11 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.18%) Appian
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.12%) CICS
12 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 79 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.53%) 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 (0.059%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 38 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.18%) SAP MDG
3 19 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 10 (0.59%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.47%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.41%) 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
1 678 (40.02%) Azure
2 475 (28.04%) Power Platform
3 437 (25.80%) AWS
4 257 (15.17%) GCP
5 179 (10.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 163 (9.62%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.38%) dbt
8 132 (7.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 102 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (5.25%) Serverless
11 88 (5.19%) Amazon S3
12 66 (3.90%) SaaS
13 59 (3.48%) Power Automate
14 52 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.07%) PowerApps
15 45 (2.66%) GitHub
16 41 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
17 39 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
18 33 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.60%) 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 (0.059%) CTI
6 1 (0.059%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (25.80%) Power BI
2 339 (20.01%) Data Warehouse
3 211 (12.46%) Data Lake
4 201 (11.87%) Metadata
5 123 (7.26%) SQL Server
6 122 (7.20%) Tableau
7 110 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 91 (5.37%) BigQuery
9 89 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
11 67 (3.96%) Big Data
11 67 (3.96%) Star Schema
12 65 (3.84%) Semantic Layer
13 63 (3.72%) MySQL
14 61 (3.60%) NoSQL
15 52 (3.07%) Delta Lake
16 51 (3.01%) Power Query
16 51 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 50 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
18 49 (2.89%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 109 (6.43%) Git
2 38 (2.24%) JIRA
3 32 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 32 (1.89%) MLflow
4 28 (1.65%) Claude Code
5 14 (0.83%) GitLab
6 12 (0.71%) ERwin
7 10 (0.59%) Postman
8 6 (0.35%) Toad
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
12 1 (0.059%) RStudio
12 1 (0.059%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 565 (33.35%) Social Skills
2 518 (30.58%) Finance
3 458 (27.04%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 134 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (4.19%) Retail
7 68 (4.01%) Marketing
8 66 (3.90%) Law
9 54 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 43 (2.54%) Legal
12 36 (2.13%) Financial Institution
13 33 (1.95%) Banking
14 23 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.24%) Billing
16 20 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (1.12%) Local Government
18 18 (1.06%) Advertising
19 17 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 416 (24.56%) Data Engineer
2 381 (22.49%) Architect
3 362 (21.37%) Senior
4 265 (15.64%) Data Architect
5 209 (12.34%) Analyst
6 200 (11.81%) Developer
7 190 (11.22%) Lead
8 114 (6.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 109 (6.43%) Data Analyst
10 80 (4.72%) Consultant
11 65 (3.84%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 52 (3.07%) Senior Data Architect
14 51 (3.01%) Business Analyst
15 46 (2.72%) Data Modeller
16 45 (2.66%) Senior Developer
17 44 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 44 (2.60%) Lead Data Engineer
18 40 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
19 38 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (7.91%) REST
2 119 (7.02%) PySpark
3 112 (6.61%) Kafka
4 68 (4.01%) Node.js
5 66 (3.90%) React
6 63 (3.72%) .NET
7 60 (3.54%) JSON
8 58 (3.42%) SOAP
9 57 (3.36%) Middleware
10 52 (3.07%) Lightning Web Components
11 46 (2.72%) XML
12 41 (2.42%) CSS
12 41 (2.42%) LangChain
13 34 (2.01%) RESTful
14 32 (1.89%) PyTorch
14 32 (1.89%) TensorFlow
15 30 (1.77%) HTML
15 30 (1.77%) Visualforce
16 29 (1.71%) AngularJS
16 29 (1.71%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 167 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 135 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 76 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 39 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.65%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.59%) Clustering
13 25 (1.48%) AI Agents
14 24 (1.42%) Reinsurance
15 22 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
15 22 (1.30%) Social Media
16 19 (1.12%) Mobile App
17 18 (1.06%) Replication
18 14 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.12%) Linux
2 15 (0.89%) Windows
3 1 (0.059%) Android
3 1 (0.059%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.059%) Unix
3 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (47.05%) Analytics
2 585 (34.53%) Business Intelligence
3 539 (31.82%) Data Governance
4 489 (28.87%) AI
5 480 (28.34%) Data Engineering
6 468 (27.63%) ETL
7 450 (26.56%) Data Pipeline
8 444 (26.21%) Decision-Making
9 404 (23.85%) Agile
10 395 (23.32%) CI/CD
11 393 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
12 388 (22.90%) Data Architecture
13 296 (17.47%) DevOps
14 273 (16.12%) Mentoring
15 266 (15.70%) Machine Learning
15 266 (15.70%) Roadmaps
16 247 (14.58%) Data Strategy
17 239 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 188 (11.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 178 (10.51%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 882 (52.07%) SQL
2 705 (41.62%) Python
3 112 (6.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 106 (6.26%) Java
5 81 (4.78%) TypeScript
6 79 (4.66%) JavaScript
7 74 (4.37%) C#
8 57 (3.36%) Scala
9 48 (2.83%) Apex Code
10 43 (2.54%) T-SQL
11 25 (1.48%) R
12 24 (1.42%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.12%) SOQL
14 19 (1.12%) SOSL
15 14 (0.83%) Bash
15 14 (0.83%) Bicep
16 11 (0.65%) C++
17 10 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 206 (12.16%) Security Cleared
2 190 (11.22%) Degree
3 126 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.89%) DBS Check
8 31 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.59%) SnowPro
14 9 (0.53%) CIPD
15 8 (0.47%) ACCA
15 8 (0.47%) CIMA
15 8 (0.47%) SAP Certification
16 5 (0.30%) IIBA
17 4 (0.24%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 574 (33.88%) Data Quality
2 122 (7.20%) GDPR
3 58 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 57 (3.36%) QA
5 28 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.41%) GRC
8 6 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.35%) 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 (0.059%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.059%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.059%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 88 (5.19%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.059%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 105 (6.20%) Terraform
2 58 (3.42%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.71%) Ansible
4 9 (0.53%) Grafana
5 7 (0.41%) Packer
6 6 (0.35%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.30%) Hadoop YARN
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 1 (0.059%) QRadar
9 1 (0.059%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.059%) SCCM
Vendors
1 351 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 344 (20.31%) Databricks
3 117 (6.91%) Oracle
4 110 (6.49%) Salesforce
5 100 (5.90%) SAP
6 59 (3.48%) Google
7 33 (1.95%) Informatica
8 27 (1.59%) Cloudera
8 27 (1.59%) Palantir
9 25 (1.48%) Foundry
10 23 (1.36%) Dell
11 18 (1.06%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.00%) Talend
13 16 (0.94%) OpenAI
14 15 (0.89%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.65%) IBM
15 11 (0.65%) Workday
16 10 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 9 (0.53%) HubSpot
18 7 (0.41%) Ariba