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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 127 110
Rank change year-on-year +9 -17 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,802 1,213 1,746
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.46% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.77% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 624 958
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,500 £69,650
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% -0.22% +3.95%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,313 £87,328
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,125 £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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 16 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 16 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 +10 1,659 £70,000 +1.45% 3,117
UK excluding London +4 891 £62,500 -1.57% 1,510
London +6 762 £82,500 +3.13% 1,876
Work from Home +36 557 £65,000 -3.70% 1,359
North of England +60 344 £64,750 +3.60% 373
South East -81 192 £62,500 -3.85% 372
Midlands +13 160 £62,500 -1.57% 243
North West +69 155 £62,500 +5.49% 228
West Midlands +4 114 £62,500 +3.73% 169
Yorkshire +15 107 £67,500 - 110
South West -17 107 £69,973 +11.96% 171
North East +3 82 £65,000 +31.98% 37
East of England -29 47 £63,750 +6.25% 118
East Midlands -31 46 £59,000 -9.23% 74
Scotland -10 25 £70,000 +14.29% 150
Wales -57 20 £63,500 - 33
Northern Ireland -73 2 £60,000 - 64

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
1 117 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 105 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (4.61%) Apache
4 34 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 28 (1.55%) Confluence
6 18 (1.00%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.72%) SAS
8 9 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.28%) CMS
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 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.055%) Apache Superset
14 1 (0.055%) JBoss
14 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 81 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.44%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.17%) Blender
5 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Maya
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.11%) Windchill
7 1 (0.055%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.055%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 37 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.05%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 11 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
7 9 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.44%) SAP MDG-BP
9 6 (0.33%) NetSuite
9 6 (0.33%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
11 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
12 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
13 1 (0.055%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 711 (39.46%) Azure
2 536 (29.74%) Power Platform
3 454 (25.19%) AWS
4 248 (13.76%) GCP
5 199 (11.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 163 (9.05%) Snowflake
7 142 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (7.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 137 (7.60%) dbt
9 98 (5.44%) Serverless
10 94 (5.22%) Amazon S3
11 79 (4.38%) SaaS
12 74 (4.11%) Azure Databricks
13 69 (3.83%) Power Automate
14 66 (3.66%) GitHub
15 63 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
16 57 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
17 56 (3.11%) PowerApps
18 53 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
19 41 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.72%) Broadband
2 13 (0.72%) VPN
3 7 (0.39%) DMZ
3 7 (0.39%) Ethernet
3 7 (0.39%) IPv4
3 7 (0.39%) Modbus
3 7 (0.39%) OSPF
3 7 (0.39%) VLAN
4 6 (0.33%) BGP
4 6 (0.33%) DNS
4 6 (0.33%) IPsec
4 6 (0.33%) SMS
5 4 (0.22%) Internet
6 3 (0.17%) LTE
7 2 (0.11%) Network Security
7 2 (0.11%) NGN
8 1 (0.055%) 4G
8 1 (0.055%) 5G
8 1 (0.055%) ATM
8 1 (0.055%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 495 (27.47%) Power BI
2 366 (20.31%) Data Warehouse
3 245 (13.60%) Metadata
4 225 (12.49%) Data Lake
5 140 (7.77%) Tableau
6 136 (7.55%) SQL Server
7 107 (5.94%) Relational Database
8 93 (5.16%) Star Schema
9 88 (4.88%) BigQuery
10 86 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
11 84 (4.66%) Semantic Layer
12 83 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 81 (4.50%) Big Data
14 78 (4.33%) Delta Lake
15 76 (4.22%) NoSQL
16 72 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (3.33%) Data Vault
18 57 (3.16%) Power Query
18 57 (3.16%) Snowflake Schema
19 51 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 158 (8.77%) Git
2 51 (2.83%) JIRA
3 48 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.39%) Claude Code
5 25 (1.39%) GitLab
6 24 (1.33%) MLflow
7 8 (0.44%) ERwin
8 6 (0.33%) Ant
8 6 (0.33%) Toad
9 4 (0.22%) Maven
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 624 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 558 (30.97%) Finance
3 486 (26.97%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.11%) Marketing
7 86 (4.77%) Retail
8 75 (4.16%) Law
9 72 (4.00%) Legal
10 66 (3.66%) Manufacturing
11 54 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (2.50%) Banking
13 30 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 29 (1.61%) Billing
15 25 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.78%) Front Office
19 13 (0.72%) Local Government
19 13 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 432 (23.97%) Data Engineer
2 416 (23.09%) Architect
3 389 (21.59%) Senior
4 304 (16.87%) Data Architect
5 204 (11.32%) Analyst
6 189 (10.49%) Lead
7 182 (10.10%) Developer
8 110 (6.10%) Senior Data Engineer
9 99 (5.49%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.94%) Consultant
11 64 (3.55%) Senior Architect
12 55 (3.05%) Data Modeller
13 54 (3.00%) Senior Data Architect
14 52 (2.89%) Business Analyst
15 45 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 45 (2.50%) Software Engineer
16 44 (2.44%) Databricks Engineer
16 44 (2.44%) Principal Engineer
16 44 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 44 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (8.82%) PySpark
2 120 (6.66%) REST
3 109 (6.05%) Terraform
4 107 (5.94%) Kafka
5 67 (3.72%) Node.js
6 66 (3.66%) React
7 57 (3.16%) .NET
8 48 (2.66%) SOAP
9 47 (2.61%) Lightning Web Components
10 46 (2.55%) Middleware
11 44 (2.44%) JSON
12 35 (1.94%) CSS
12 35 (1.94%) LangChain
13 33 (1.83%) XML
14 31 (1.72%) AngularJS
15 25 (1.39%) RESTful
16 22 (1.22%) Next.js
17 21 (1.17%) Spring
17 21 (1.17%) Vue
18 20 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 176 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.27%) Data Structures
3 102 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 79 (4.38%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.16%) AI Agents
8 37 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
14 25 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.22%) Clustering
15 22 (1.22%) Taxonomies
16 20 (1.11%) Reinsurance
17 19 (1.05%) Replication
18 17 (0.94%) Mobile App
18 17 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (1.39%) Windows
2 24 (1.33%) Linux
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (46.00%) Analytics
2 658 (36.51%) Business Intelligence
3 632 (35.07%) AI
4 535 (29.69%) Data Governance
5 505 (28.02%) Data Engineering
6 492 (27.30%) ETL
7 487 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
8 468 (25.97%) Data Architecture
9 460 (25.53%) Decision-Making
10 459 (25.47%) Agile
11 452 (25.08%) CI/CD
12 402 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
13 337 (18.70%) DevOps
14 335 (18.59%) Roadmaps
15 298 (16.54%) Mentoring
16 290 (16.09%) Data Strategy
17 270 (14.98%) Machine Learning
18 264 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 262 (14.54%) Technical Leadership
20 259 (14.37%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 931 (51.66%) SQL
2 698 (38.73%) Python
3 121 (6.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 98 (5.44%) Java
5 95 (5.27%) C#
6 86 (4.77%) TypeScript
7 80 (4.44%) Scala
8 71 (3.94%) JavaScript
9 43 (2.39%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.94%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.50%) R
12 22 (1.22%) PowerShell
13 21 (1.17%) Bicep
14 17 (0.94%) SOQL
15 15 (0.83%) SOSL
16 13 (0.72%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.61%) Bash
17 11 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 237 (13.15%) Security Cleared
2 201 (11.15%) Degree
3 149 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.55%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.44%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.00%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.50%) CIPD
16 6 (0.33%) CSPO
16 6 (0.33%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.33%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.28%) ACCA
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 660 (36.63%) Data Quality
2 133 (7.38%) GDPR
3 84 (4.66%) Accessibility
4 65 (3.61%) QA
5 28 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.44%) PMO
7 7 (0.39%) IFRS
7 7 (0.39%) WCAG
8 6 (0.33%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 4 (0.22%) MiFID
11 3 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.17%) GRC
11 3 (0.17%) SLA
11 3 (0.17%) UCITS
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.11%) PERC
12 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.055%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 94 (5.22%) Docker
2 10 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.39%) NDS
4 1 (0.055%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 62 (3.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.05%) Ansible
3 8 (0.44%) Packer
4 6 (0.33%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.22%) Argo
6 3 (0.17%) Kibana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.055%) Consul
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.055%) QRadar
8 1 (0.055%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.055%) SCCM
Vendors
1 429 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 347 (19.26%) Databricks
3 107 (5.94%) Oracle
4 106 (5.88%) SAP
5 105 (5.83%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.66%) Google
7 36 (2.00%) Informatica
8 22 (1.22%) Talend
9 19 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 17 (0.94%) Cloudera
11 16 (0.89%) Foundry
12 15 (0.83%) Dell
12 15 (0.83%) OpenAI
12 15 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 13 (0.72%) Palantir
14 11 (0.61%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.55%) ForgeRock
15 10 (0.55%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.55%) OpenText