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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 133 117
Rank change year-on-year +27 -16 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,654 1,160 2,329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.71% 2.45% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.69% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 594 1,506
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 £67,700
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% -3.99% +0.30%
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 71,140 43,093 86,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 91.19% 82.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49,140 23,729 61,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.38% - -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 3 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 3 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 +24 1,500 £69,973 +6.42% 821
UK excluding London +4 783 £62,500 +4.17% 503
London +27 699 £80,000 +6.67% 441
Work from Home +34 529 £67,500 +1.50% 408
North of England +86 294 £62,500 +8.70% 111
South East -30 184 £60,000 -7.69% 184
Midlands +8 147 £60,000 -2.44% 92
North West +52 138 £60,500 +15.24% 69
Yorkshire +32 111 £67,500 +12.50% 22
West Midlands 0 104 £62,500 +8.70% 47
South West -86 63 £60,000 -12.44% 59
East of England 0 55 £71,000 +18.33% 18
North East -12 45 £65,000 +36.84% 21
East Midlands -6 43 £57,000 -10.24% 44
Scotland -17 25 £70,000 +11.11% 21
Wales - 12 £67,586 - 14
Northern Ireland -43 3 £60,000 - 6

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
1 142 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
2 111 (6.71%) Apache Spark
3 79 (4.78%) Apache
4 33 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 16 (0.97%) SAS
7 14 (0.85%) Confluence
8 13 (0.79%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.48%) CMS
9 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.30%) Appian
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 75 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.09%) 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 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.21%) SAP MDG
3 19 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
5 12 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 11 (0.67%) NetSuite
7 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.48%) SAP MDG-BP
9 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
9 7 (0.42%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.30%) SAP MDG-F
11 4 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
12 3 (0.18%) Misys Opics
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
13 2 (0.12%) Integrated Workplace Management System
13 2 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 673 (40.69%) Azure
2 461 (27.87%) Power Platform
3 426 (25.76%) AWS
4 253 (15.30%) GCP
5 174 (10.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (9.37%) Snowflake
7 139 (8.40%) dbt
8 130 (7.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 101 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (5.32%) Serverless
11 86 (5.20%) Amazon S3
12 66 (3.99%) SaaS
13 60 (3.63%) Power Automate
14 53 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
15 51 (3.08%) PowerApps
16 44 (2.66%) GitHub
17 38 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
18 37 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
19 33 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
20 30 (1.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.66%) Broadband
2 4 (0.24%) NGN
3 3 (0.18%) BGP
3 3 (0.18%) DNS
3 3 (0.18%) Internet
3 3 (0.18%) IPsec
3 3 (0.18%) LTE
3 3 (0.18%) Network Security
3 3 (0.18%) VPN
4 2 (0.12%) 4G
4 2 (0.12%) 5G
4 2 (0.12%) SMS
4 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
5 1 (0.060%) CTI
5 1 (0.060%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (25.51%) Power BI
2 329 (19.89%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (12.27%) Data Lake
4 191 (11.55%) Metadata
5 121 (7.32%) SQL Server
6 119 (7.19%) Tableau
7 107 (6.47%) Relational Database
8 90 (5.44%) BigQuery
9 88 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 86 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
11 65 (3.93%) Semantic Layer
12 61 (3.69%) Big Data
12 61 (3.69%) Star Schema
13 58 (3.51%) MySQL
14 57 (3.45%) NoSQL
15 51 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 50 (3.02%) Delta Lake
17 49 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
17 49 (2.96%) Power Query
18 48 (2.90%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 107 (6.47%) Git
2 38 (2.30%) JIRA
3 35 (2.12%) MLflow
4 30 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 26 (1.57%) Claude Code
6 13 (0.79%) ERwin
6 13 (0.79%) GitLab
7 11 (0.67%) Postman
8 6 (0.36%) Toad
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.18%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.12%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.12%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.12%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.12%) NUnit
11 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.12%) YouTrack
General
1 550 (33.25%) Social Skills
2 510 (30.83%) Finance
3 449 (27.15%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 67 (4.05%) Retail
6 65 (3.93%) Law
7 63 (3.81%) Marketing
8 50 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (2.84%) Manufacturing
10 41 (2.48%) Legal
11 38 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 35 (2.12%) Banking
13 24 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.39%) Billing
15 19 (1.15%) Local Government
16 18 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (1.03%) Advertising
18 15 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 405 (24.49%) Data Engineer
2 363 (21.95%) Architect
3 356 (21.52%) Senior
4 254 (15.36%) Data Architect
5 205 (12.39%) Analyst
6 199 (12.03%) Developer
7 188 (11.37%) Lead
8 114 (6.89%) Senior Data Engineer
9 109 (6.59%) Data Analyst
10 78 (4.72%) Consultant
11 60 (3.63%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 50 (3.02%) Business Analyst
14 49 (2.96%) Senior Data Architect
15 45 (2.72%) Data Modeller
16 44 (2.66%) Senior Developer
17 43 (2.60%) Lead Data Engineer
18 42 (2.54%) Business Intelligence Analyst
19 39 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
20 37 (2.24%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (8.34%) REST
2 116 (7.01%) PySpark
3 107 (6.47%) Kafka
4 64 (3.87%) Node.js
4 64 (3.87%) React
5 63 (3.81%) .NET
6 62 (3.75%) SOAP
7 61 (3.69%) JSON
8 57 (3.45%) Middleware
9 48 (2.90%) Lightning Web Components
10 47 (2.84%) XML
11 42 (2.54%) CSS
11 42 (2.54%) LangChain
12 36 (2.18%) RESTful
13 35 (2.12%) PyTorch
13 35 (2.12%) TensorFlow
14 32 (1.93%) scikit-learn
15 30 (1.81%) HTML
15 30 (1.81%) Visualforce
16 28 (1.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.85%) Cloud Native
2 130 (7.86%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 70 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 40 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
7 38 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 37 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.81%) Low-Code
11 27 (1.63%) Clustering
12 26 (1.57%) Reinsurance
13 24 (1.45%) AI Agents
14 22 (1.33%) Social Media
15 18 (1.09%) Replication
16 17 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
16 17 (1.03%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.85%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.09%) Linux
2 14 (0.85%) Windows
3 3 (0.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.060%) Android
4 1 (0.060%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.060%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (46.80%) Analytics
2 570 (34.46%) Business Intelligence
3 528 (31.92%) Data Governance
4 474 (28.66%) Data Engineering
5 469 (28.36%) AI
6 457 (27.63%) ETL
7 441 (26.66%) Data Pipeline
8 430 (26.00%) Decision-Making
9 392 (23.70%) Agile
10 390 (23.58%) CI/CD
11 387 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
12 382 (23.10%) Data Architecture
13 285 (17.23%) DevOps
14 263 (15.90%) Mentoring
15 260 (15.72%) Machine Learning
16 256 (15.48%) Roadmaps
17 236 (14.27%) Data Strategy
18 228 (13.78%) Continuous Improvement
19 181 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 175 (10.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 868 (52.48%) SQL
2 685 (41.41%) Python
3 110 (6.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 103 (6.23%) Java
5 80 (4.84%) JavaScript
6 79 (4.78%) TypeScript
7 69 (4.17%) C#
8 56 (3.39%) Scala
9 45 (2.72%) Apex Code
10 42 (2.54%) T-SQL
11 26 (1.57%) R
12 24 (1.45%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.27%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.15%) SOQL
14 19 (1.15%) SOSL
15 15 (0.91%) Bash
16 13 (0.79%) Bicep
17 10 (0.60%) C++
18 9 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
19 8 (0.48%) Go
Qualifications
1 194 (11.73%) Security Cleared
2 185 (11.19%) Degree
3 119 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 68 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 32 (1.93%) DBS Check
8 29 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.51%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 10 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.54%) ACCA
12 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.54%) CIMA
12 9 (0.54%) CIPD
12 9 (0.54%) SnowPro
13 8 (0.48%) SAP Certification
14 5 (0.30%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 557 (33.68%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.07%) GDPR
3 54 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 54 (3.26%) QA
4 27 (1.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.42%) GRC
6 7 (0.42%) Solvency II
7 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.36%) SLA
8 5 (0.30%) IFRS
8 5 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 5 (0.30%) MiFID
9 4 (0.24%) PERC
9 4 (0.24%) PMO
10 3 (0.18%) WCAG
11 2 (0.12%) HL7
12 1 (0.060%) NIST
12 1 (0.060%) SNOMED CT
12 1 (0.060%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (5.26%) Docker
2 10 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 101 (6.11%) Terraform
2 61 (3.69%) Kubernetes
3 11 (0.67%) Ansible
4 9 (0.54%) Grafana
5 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.36%) Packer
6 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (0.18%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) Control-M
9 1 (0.060%) QRadar
9 1 (0.060%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.060%) SCCM
Vendors
1 343 (20.74%) Databricks
2 336 (20.31%) Microsoft
3 112 (6.77%) Oracle
4 108 (6.53%) Salesforce
5 97 (5.86%) SAP
6 56 (3.39%) Google
7 35 (2.12%) Informatica
8 28 (1.69%) Palantir
9 27 (1.63%) Cloudera
9 27 (1.63%) Foundry
10 23 (1.39%) Dell
11 19 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.09%) ServiceNow
13 17 (1.03%) Talend
14 15 (0.91%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.67%) Workday
16 10 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 9 (0.54%) IBM
18 8 (0.48%) HubSpot
18 8 (0.48%) Sparx