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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 126 113
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,796 1,226 1,764
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.49% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.81% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 630 1,002
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,958 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +0.72% +2.60%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +9.65%

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 81,075 43,637 63,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.47% 80.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56,400 24,673 38,159
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,700 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.74%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +7 1,656 £70,000 +1.45% 1,427
UK excluding London +2 889 £62,500 -1.57% 711
London +8 751 £82,500 +6.45% 925
Work from Home +30 544 £65,000 -4.41% 612
North of England +74 348 £64,750 +3.60% 141
South East -75 194 £62,500 -3.85% 204
Midlands -1 153 £60,900 -4.09% 129
North West +74 152 £62,500 +5.49% 92
Yorkshire +3 114 £67,500 - 40
West Midlands -2 110 £62,500 +3.31% 92
South West -25 103 £67,736 +8.38% 91
North East +1 82 £60,000 +21.83% 10
East of England -29 51 £65,000 +8.33% 54
East Midlands -34 43 £59,366 -12.05% 37
Scotland -10 25 £70,000 +14.29% 58
Wales - 18 £63,500 - 15
Northern Ireland -80 2 £60,000 - 29

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
1 116 (6.46%) Apache Spark
2 112 (6.24%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (4.79%) Apache
4 33 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 25 (1.39%) Confluence
6 18 (1.00%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.72%) SAS
8 12 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.39%) CMS
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.22%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 2 (0.11%) Tornado
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.056%) JBoss
14 1 (0.056%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.056%) Umbraco
Applications
1 78 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.056%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 33 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.06%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
6 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 702 (39.09%) Azure
2 521 (29.01%) Power Platform
3 457 (25.45%) AWS
4 249 (13.86%) GCP
5 194 (10.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 159 (8.85%) Snowflake
7 137 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 135 (7.52%) dbt
9 130 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 93 (5.18%) Serverless
12 75 (4.18%) SaaS
13 73 (4.06%) Azure Databricks
14 64 (3.56%) Microsoft Purview
14 64 (3.56%) Power Automate
15 63 (3.51%) GitHub
16 57 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
17 53 (2.95%) PowerApps
18 52 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
19 38 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.12%) Broadband
2 11 (0.61%) VPN
3 6 (0.33%) BGP
3 6 (0.33%) DNS
3 6 (0.33%) IPsec
3 6 (0.33%) SMS
4 5 (0.28%) DMZ
4 5 (0.28%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.28%) IPv4
4 5 (0.28%) Modbus
4 5 (0.28%) OSPF
4 5 (0.28%) VLAN
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.22%) NGN
6 3 (0.17%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
8 1 (0.056%) 4G
8 1 (0.056%) 5G
8 1 (0.056%) ATM
8 1 (0.056%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (26.78%) Power BI
2 368 (20.49%) Data Warehouse
3 239 (13.31%) Metadata
4 229 (12.75%) Data Lake
5 138 (7.68%) Tableau
6 132 (7.35%) SQL Server
7 107 (5.96%) Relational Database
8 91 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
9 90 (5.01%) Star Schema
10 88 (4.90%) BigQuery
11 82 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 82 (4.57%) Big Data
12 79 (4.40%) Semantic Layer
13 74 (4.12%) Delta Lake
14 72 (4.01%) NoSQL
15 62 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (3.34%) Data Vault
17 55 (3.06%) Power Query
18 54 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
19 53 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 144 (8.02%) Git
2 49 (2.73%) JIRA
3 46 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 40 (2.23%) Claude Code
5 25 (1.39%) MLflow
6 24 (1.34%) GitLab
7 9 (0.50%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
8 6 (0.33%) Toad
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.11%) YouTrack
General
1 623 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 559 (31.12%) Finance
3 477 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 137 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.12%) Marketing
7 84 (4.68%) Retail
8 76 (4.23%) Law
9 66 (3.67%) Legal
10 63 (3.51%) Manufacturing
11 56 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (2.51%) Banking
13 29 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 27 (1.50%) Billing
15 25 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.28%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.78%) Advertising
18 14 (0.78%) Local Government
18 14 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 430 (23.94%) Data Engineer
2 414 (23.05%) Architect
3 392 (21.83%) Senior
4 306 (17.04%) Data Architect
5 204 (11.36%) Analyst
6 186 (10.36%) Developer
6 186 (10.36%) Lead
7 110 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
8 100 (5.57%) Data Analyst
9 75 (4.18%) Consultant
10 64 (3.56%) Senior Architect
11 57 (3.17%) Business Analyst
12 55 (3.06%) Data Modeller
13 54 (3.01%) Senior Data Architect
14 49 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 47 (2.62%) Databricks Engineer
16 46 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
17 44 (2.45%) Senior Developer
18 43 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
19 41 (2.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (8.46%) PySpark
2 126 (7.02%) REST
3 111 (6.18%) Terraform
4 106 (5.90%) Kafka
5 67 (3.73%) Node.js
6 65 (3.62%) React
7 57 (3.17%) .NET
8 52 (2.90%) Lightning Web Components
9 49 (2.73%) SOAP
10 48 (2.67%) Middleware
11 46 (2.56%) JSON
12 36 (2.00%) LangChain
13 35 (1.95%) CSS
13 35 (1.95%) XML
14 30 (1.67%) AngularJS
15 25 (1.39%) RESTful
16 21 (1.17%) Next.js
16 21 (1.17%) PyTorch
16 21 (1.17%) TensorFlow
16 21 (1.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 180 (10.02%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.40%) Data Structures
3 104 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.06%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
6 45 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 36 (2.00%) AI Agents
9 35 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 33 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
10 33 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 29 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
13 25 (1.39%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.22%) Clustering
15 20 (1.11%) Reinsurance
15 20 (1.11%) Taxonomies
16 19 (1.06%) Replication
16 19 (1.06%) Social Media
17 18 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.28%) Linux
1 23 (1.28%) Windows
2 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (46.38%) Analytics
2 645 (35.91%) Business Intelligence
3 618 (34.41%) AI
4 543 (30.23%) Data Governance
5 510 (28.40%) Data Engineering
6 496 (27.62%) ETL
7 480 (26.73%) Data Pipeline
8 460 (25.61%) Decision-Making
9 457 (25.45%) Data Architecture
10 452 (25.17%) Agile
11 438 (24.39%) CI/CD
12 399 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
13 332 (18.49%) Roadmaps
14 323 (17.98%) DevOps
15 296 (16.48%) Mentoring
16 287 (15.98%) Data Strategy
17 279 (15.53%) Machine Learning
18 258 (14.37%) Lakehouse
19 252 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
20 250 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 927 (51.61%) SQL
2 711 (39.59%) Python
3 118 (6.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 97 (5.40%) Java
5 89 (4.96%) C#
6 85 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 77 (4.29%) Scala
8 68 (3.79%) JavaScript
9 46 (2.56%) Apex Code
10 36 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.56%) R
12 20 (1.11%) Bicep
13 18 (1.00%) PowerShell
13 18 (1.00%) SOQL
14 17 (0.95%) SOSL
15 12 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 11 (0.61%) Bash
17 10 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.45%) Go
18 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 229 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 195 (10.86%) Degree
3 136 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 50 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 47 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 31 (1.73%) AWS Certification
10 29 (1.61%) DBS Check
11 28 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.00%) SnowPro
13 15 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.50%) CIPD
16 6 (0.33%) IIBA
16 6 (0.33%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.28%) ACCA
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 649 (36.14%) Data Quality
2 129 (7.18%) GDPR
3 80 (4.45%) Accessibility
4 72 (4.01%) QA
5 27 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.39%) IFRS
6 7 (0.39%) PMO
6 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 5 (0.28%) WCAG
8 4 (0.22%) MiFID
8 4 (0.22%) PERC
9 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.17%) GRC
9 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.17%) SLA
9 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.056%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (5.18%) Docker
2 6 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.22%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 60 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.00%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Grafana
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.056%) Consul
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 413 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 353 (19.65%) Databricks
3 109 (6.07%) Salesforce
4 106 (5.90%) Oracle
5 105 (5.85%) SAP
6 65 (3.62%) Google
7 32 (1.78%) Informatica
8 20 (1.11%) Foundry
8 20 (1.11%) Talend
9 19 (1.06%) Palantir
10 18 (1.00%) Cloudera
10 18 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 17 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 16 (0.89%) Dell
13 14 (0.78%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.61%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.56%) IBM
15 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
16 9 (0.50%) HubSpot
17 8 (0.45%) SYSPRO