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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 126 111
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,776 1,259 1,863
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.62% 2.51% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.83% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,155 658 1,086
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,925 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +4.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,625
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%

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 79,954 44,458 67,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.81% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,419 25,298 42,226
10th Percentile £31,055 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,047
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.09% -9.01%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +5 1,646 £70,000 +3.70% 1,798
UK excluding London +1 877 £62,500 - 881
London +10 749 £82,500 +6.45% 1,151
Work from Home +28 544 £65,000 -3.70% 783
North of England +78 349 £63,500 +5.83% 226
South East -70 193 £62,500 -3.85% 245
North West +67 154 £62,500 +6.84% 144
Midlands -2 148 £60,808 -4.24% 124
Yorkshire +15 113 £67,500 - 53
West Midlands -6 103 £62,500 +4.17% 89
South West -35 100 £65,500 -1.13% 115
North East +6 82 £55,000 +10.00% 29
East of England -21 51 £70,500 +17.50% 60
East Midlands -21 45 £59,366 -8.67% 35
Scotland -6 24 £70,000 +14.29% 68
Wales - 13 £63,500 - 19
Northern Ireland -77 2 £60,000 - 30

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
1 122 (6.87%) Apache Airflow
2 120 (6.76%) Apache Spark
3 84 (4.73%) Apache
4 31 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.01%) Confluence
5 18 (1.01%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
6 11 (0.62%) SAS
7 7 (0.39%) CMS
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Luigi
9 4 (0.23%) WordPress
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 2 (0.11%) CICS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.11%) Tornado
12 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.056%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 76 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.51%) 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 31 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.07%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
4 12 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
7 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
9 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
10 2 (0.11%) Misys Opics
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
11 1 (0.056%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 695 (39.13%) Azure
2 513 (28.89%) Power Platform
3 467 (26.30%) AWS
4 260 (14.64%) GCP
5 186 (10.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 167 (9.40%) Snowflake
7 142 (8.00%) dbt
8 137 (7.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 119 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (5.29%) Amazon S3
11 91 (5.12%) Serverless
12 69 (3.89%) SaaS
13 61 (3.43%) GitHub
13 61 (3.43%) Power Automate
14 60 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
15 57 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (2.93%) PowerApps
17 49 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
18 39 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
19 33 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.20%) Broadband
2 9 (0.51%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
4 4 (0.23%) Internet
4 4 (0.23%) NGN
4 4 (0.23%) SMS
5 3 (0.17%) DMZ
5 3 (0.17%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.17%) IPv4
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
5 3 (0.17%) Modbus
5 3 (0.17%) OSPF
5 3 (0.17%) VLAN
6 2 (0.11%) Network Security
7 1 (0.056%) 4G
7 1 (0.056%) 5G
7 1 (0.056%) ATM
7 1 (0.056%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (26.69%) Power BI
2 365 (20.55%) Data Warehouse
3 230 (12.95%) Data Lake
4 227 (12.78%) Metadata
5 144 (8.11%) Tableau
6 131 (7.38%) SQL Server
7 113 (6.36%) Relational Database
8 95 (5.35%) BigQuery
9 94 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
10 91 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (4.90%) Star Schema
12 82 (4.62%) Big Data
13 74 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
14 68 (3.83%) NoSQL
15 67 (3.77%) Delta Lake
16 59 (3.32%) Looker
16 59 (3.32%) Snowflake Schema
17 57 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
17 57 (3.21%) Data Vault
18 52 (2.93%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 135 (7.60%) Git
2 46 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 43 (2.42%) JIRA
4 36 (2.03%) Claude Code
5 33 (1.86%) MLflow
6 24 (1.35%) GitLab
7 9 (0.51%) ERwin
8 6 (0.34%) Toad
9 5 (0.28%) Ant
10 4 (0.23%) Maven
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.17%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
11 3 (0.17%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (0.11%) Gradle
12 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 603 (33.95%) Social Skills
2 559 (31.48%) Finance
3 471 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 131 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 90 (5.07%) Marketing
7 83 (4.67%) Retail
8 76 (4.28%) Law
9 64 (3.60%) Legal
10 63 (3.55%) Manufacturing
11 55 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
12 48 (2.70%) Banking
13 26 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
14 24 (1.35%) Billing
14 24 (1.35%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.84%) Advertising
16 15 (0.84%) Front Office
17 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 424 (23.87%) Data Engineer
2 406 (22.86%) Architect
3 385 (21.68%) Senior
4 300 (16.89%) Data Architect
5 198 (11.15%) Analyst
6 193 (10.87%) Developer
7 179 (10.08%) Lead
8 102 (5.74%) Senior Data Engineer
9 92 (5.18%) Data Analyst
10 74 (4.17%) Consultant
11 60 (3.38%) Senior Architect
12 58 (3.27%) Business Analyst
12 58 (3.27%) Data Modeller
13 50 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 50 (2.82%) Senior Data Architect
14 46 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
14 46 (2.59%) Senior Developer
15 42 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
16 38 (2.14%) Data Consultant
16 38 (2.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (8.00%) PySpark
2 129 (7.26%) REST
3 117 (6.59%) Kafka
4 111 (6.25%) Terraform
5 69 (3.89%) React
6 68 (3.83%) Node.js
7 57 (3.21%) .NET
8 54 (3.04%) Lightning Web Components
9 52 (2.93%) SOAP
10 50 (2.82%) Middleware
11 45 (2.53%) JSON
12 44 (2.48%) LangChain
13 37 (2.08%) CSS
14 34 (1.91%) XML
15 33 (1.86%) AngularJS
16 29 (1.63%) pgvector
16 29 (1.63%) PyTorch
16 29 (1.63%) TensorFlow
17 26 (1.46%) RESTful
17 26 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 187 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 97 (5.46%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 67 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
8 34 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.69%) Clustering
10 30 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
11 29 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.13%) Low-Code
14 19 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 19 (1.07%) Reinsurance
14 19 (1.07%) Replication
14 19 (1.07%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.30%) Linux
2 21 (1.18%) Windows
3 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (46.68%) Analytics
2 632 (35.59%) Business Intelligence
3 600 (33.78%) AI
4 542 (30.52%) Data Governance
5 507 (28.55%) Data Engineering
6 494 (27.82%) ETL
7 480 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
8 443 (24.94%) Data Architecture
8 443 (24.94%) Decision-Making
9 438 (24.66%) Agile
10 422 (23.76%) CI/CD
11 387 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
12 318 (17.91%) Roadmaps
13 312 (17.57%) DevOps
14 290 (16.33%) Machine Learning
15 281 (15.82%) Mentoring
16 279 (15.71%) Data Strategy
17 237 (13.34%) Continuous Improvement
18 235 (13.23%) Stakeholder Management
19 230 (12.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 910 (51.24%) SQL
2 712 (40.09%) Python
3 113 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 101 (5.69%) Java
5 84 (4.73%) C#
5 84 (4.73%) TypeScript
6 74 (4.17%) Scala
7 68 (3.83%) JavaScript
8 47 (2.65%) Apex Code
9 36 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.46%) R
11 20 (1.13%) Bicep
12 19 (1.07%) SOQL
12 19 (1.07%) SOSL
13 18 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 16 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.62%) Bash
15 11 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.51%) Go
17 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 226 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 192 (10.81%) Degree
3 135 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.49%) Azure Certification
6 50 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 44 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 32 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 30 (1.69%) Master's Degree
10 28 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.46%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.96%) SnowPro
13 16 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.51%) CIPD
16 6 (0.34%) IIBA
16 6 (0.34%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.28%) PMI Certification
18 4 (0.23%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 626 (35.25%) Data Quality
2 134 (7.55%) GDPR
3 75 (4.22%) Accessibility
4 66 (3.72%) QA
5 33 (1.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.39%) PMO
6 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
7 6 (0.34%) IFRS
8 5 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.23%) MiFID
9 4 (0.23%) PERC
10 3 (0.17%) GRC
10 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.17%) SLA
10 3 (0.17%) UCITS
10 3 (0.17%) WCAG
11 2 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.056%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 91 (5.12%) Docker
2 6 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 59 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.01%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
5 4 (0.23%) 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
1 396 (22.30%) Microsoft
2 355 (19.99%) Databricks
3 112 (6.31%) Oracle
4 107 (6.02%) Salesforce
5 101 (5.69%) SAP
6 64 (3.60%) Google
7 31 (1.75%) Informatica
8 26 (1.46%) Cloudera
9 24 (1.35%) Dell
10 20 (1.13%) Talend
11 19 (1.07%) Foundry
12 18 (1.01%) Palantir
13 17 (0.96%) ServiceNow
14 15 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 14 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.73%) IBM
17 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
18 10 (0.56%) MuleSoft
19 9 (0.51%) HubSpot
20 8 (0.45%) SYSPRO