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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 124 111
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,610 1,127 2,425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.73% 2.59% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.78% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 570 1,508
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,400
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.61% -3.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,775 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.60% +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 68,780 40,561 85,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.82% 93.18% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44,959 21,364 61,218
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 June 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 June 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 +20 1,438 £69,000 +6.15% 889
UK excluding London +6 784 £64,750 +3.60% 520
London +33 664 £80,000 +6.67% 466
Work from Home +43 522 £67,500 +3.85% 553
North of England +72 279 £67,500 +17.39% 155
South East -29 187 £61,250 -5.77% 147
Midlands 0 144 £60,000 -4.00% 78
Yorkshire +35 127 £70,000 +16.67% 43
North West +37 119 £63,000 +20.00% 89
West Midlands -4 106 £60,358 +0.60% 54
East of England +3 61 £71,000 +1.43% 28
South West -90 56 £55,000 -8.33% 65
Scotland -12 45 £70,000 +16.67% 24
East Midlands -14 36 £55,000 -13.39% 24
North East -20 33 £60,000 +20.00% 26
Wales - 9 £67,586 - 9
Northern Ireland -38 3 £60,000 - 20

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
1 152 (9.44%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 71 (4.41%) Apache
4 35 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 22 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
6 17 (1.06%) Confluence
7 15 (0.93%) SAS
8 11 (0.68%) Jupyter
9 10 (0.62%) CMS
10 8 (0.50%) Appian
10 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.31%) IIS
12 4 (0.25%) Camunda
12 4 (0.25%) WordPress
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.19%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.12%) CICS
14 2 (0.12%) Luigi
Applications
1 68 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Blender
5 3 (0.19%) Maya
5 3 (0.19%) Windchill
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) PTC Creo
7 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.062%) Sketch
7 1 (0.062%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 35 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.06%) SAP MDG
3 16 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.50%) SAP MDG-BP
8 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.43%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.31%) SAP MDG-F
10 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
11 3 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 3 (0.19%) Markit EDM
11 3 (0.19%) Misys Opics
12 2 (0.12%) Aladdin
12 2 (0.12%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
13 1 (0.062%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 687 (42.67%) Azure
2 434 (26.96%) Power Platform
3 401 (24.91%) AWS
4 230 (14.29%) GCP
5 183 (11.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (9.63%) Snowflake
7 144 (8.94%) dbt
8 134 (8.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 121 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (5.34%) Serverless
11 78 (4.84%) Amazon S3
12 62 (3.85%) Power Automate
13 58 (3.60%) SaaS
14 55 (3.42%) GitHub
15 49 (3.04%) PowerApps
16 46 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
17 36 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
19 30 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
20 29 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.42%) Broadband
2 3 (0.19%) LTE
2 3 (0.19%) Network Security
2 3 (0.19%) NGN
2 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (0.19%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) 4G
3 2 (0.12%) 5G
3 2 (0.12%) Internet
3 2 (0.12%) SMS
3 2 (0.12%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.062%) CTI
4 1 (0.062%) HTTP
4 1 (0.062%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (24.53%) Power BI
2 306 (19.01%) Data Warehouse
3 196 (12.17%) Data Lake
4 190 (11.80%) Metadata
5 118 (7.33%) Tableau
6 113 (7.02%) SQL Server
7 102 (6.34%) Relational Database
8 89 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (5.53%) BigQuery
9 73 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
10 63 (3.91%) NoSQL
11 56 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 52 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
13 51 (3.17%) Star Schema
14 50 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 49 (3.04%) Looker
16 46 (2.86%) Power Query
17 42 (2.61%) Big Data
17 42 (2.61%) Delta Lake
17 42 (2.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 114 (7.08%) Git
2 40 (2.48%) JIRA
3 37 (2.30%) MLflow
4 26 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.99%) GitLab
6 15 (0.93%) ERwin
7 14 (0.87%) Postman
8 12 (0.75%) Claude Code
9 6 (0.37%) Toad
10 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.25%) JUnit
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.19%) Gradle
11 3 (0.19%) IntelliJ
11 3 (0.19%) Maven
11 3 (0.19%) NUnit
11 3 (0.19%) TestNG
12 2 (0.12%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 537 (33.35%) Social Skills
2 500 (31.06%) Finance
3 442 (27.45%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.35%) Marketing
7 69 (4.29%) Law
8 59 (3.66%) Retail
9 48 (2.98%) Banking
10 45 (2.80%) Financial Institution
11 42 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (2.36%) Legal
13 32 (1.99%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
15 28 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.30%) Billing
17 19 (1.18%) Advertising
18 17 (1.06%) Local Government
19 15 (0.93%) Games
20 14 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 387 (24.04%) Data Engineer
2 336 (20.87%) Architect
2 336 (20.87%) Senior
3 217 (13.48%) Data Architect
4 200 (12.42%) Analyst
5 191 (11.86%) Lead
6 185 (11.49%) Developer
7 115 (7.14%) Data Analyst
8 108 (6.71%) Senior Data Engineer
9 78 (4.84%) Consultant
10 53 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 50 (3.11%) Business Analyst
11 50 (3.11%) Data Modeller
12 46 (2.86%) Lead Data Engineer
12 46 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.73%) Senior Architect
14 40 (2.48%) Data Manager
15 39 (2.42%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (2.42%) Senior Developer
16 37 (2.30%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.13%) REST
2 112 (6.96%) PySpark
3 106 (6.58%) Kafka
4 69 (4.29%) .NET
4 69 (4.29%) SOAP
5 61 (3.79%) React
6 59 (3.66%) JSON
7 55 (3.42%) Middleware
8 53 (3.29%) Lightning Web Components
9 51 (3.17%) Node.js
10 50 (3.11%) CSS
11 45 (2.80%) XML
12 42 (2.61%) LangChain
12 42 (2.61%) RESTful
13 38 (2.36%) PyTorch
13 38 (2.36%) TensorFlow
14 37 (2.30%) scikit-learn
15 35 (2.17%) HTML
16 31 (1.93%) Visualforce
17 27 (1.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 129 (8.01%) Data Structures
3 95 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
5 53 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 53 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 46 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (2.24%) Low-Code
9 35 (2.17%) Public Cloud
10 34 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 30 (1.86%) Reinsurance
12 25 (1.55%) Clustering
13 21 (1.30%) Replication
13 21 (1.30%) Social Media
14 18 (1.12%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.87%) e-Learning
17 13 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (0.93%) Windows
2 11 (0.68%) Linux
3 5 (0.31%) Unix
4 3 (0.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (45.03%) Analytics
2 535 (33.23%) Business Intelligence
3 501 (31.12%) Data Governance
4 471 (29.25%) Data Engineering
5 462 (28.70%) ETL
6 420 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
7 411 (25.53%) Agile
8 398 (24.72%) AI
9 389 (24.16%) Decision-Making
10 385 (23.91%) CI/CD
11 382 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
12 357 (22.17%) Data Architecture
13 312 (19.38%) DevOps
14 250 (15.53%) Mentoring
15 236 (14.66%) Machine Learning
16 208 (12.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 198 (12.30%) Roadmaps
18 189 (11.74%) Data Strategy
19 164 (10.19%) Data Science
20 163 (10.12%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 839 (52.11%) SQL
2 692 (42.98%) Python
3 123 (7.64%) Java
4 96 (5.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 91 (5.65%) JavaScript
6 73 (4.53%) TypeScript
7 67 (4.16%) C#
8 50 (3.11%) Apex Code
8 50 (3.11%) Scala
9 41 (2.55%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 30 (1.86%) R
11 18 (1.12%) Bash
11 18 (1.12%) SOQL
11 18 (1.12%) SOSL
12 16 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 10 (0.62%) C++
14 9 (0.56%) Perl
15 8 (0.50%) Go
15 8 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 191 (11.86%) Degree
2 172 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 115 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (1.93%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.80%) DBS Check
10 27 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 11 (0.68%) ACCA
13 11 (0.68%) CIMA
14 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.50%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.43%) PMP
15 7 (0.43%) SAP Certification
16 4 (0.25%) CCA
16 4 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (33.04%) Data Quality
2 105 (6.52%) GDPR
3 54 (3.35%) QA
4 48 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.56%) SLA
8 7 (0.43%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.37%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS
10 5 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 5 (0.31%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) PMO
12 3 (0.19%) PERC
13 2 (0.12%) HL7
13 2 (0.12%) WCAG
14 1 (0.062%) NIST
14 1 (0.062%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.062%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 82 (5.09%) Docker
2 12 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 91 (5.65%) Terraform
2 66 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 12 (0.75%) Grafana
4 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.43%) Control-M
7 4 (0.25%) Ansible
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
8 3 (0.19%) Packer
9 1 (0.062%) QRadar
9 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.062%) SCCM
Vendors
1 329 (20.43%) Databricks
2 318 (19.75%) Microsoft
3 111 (6.89%) Salesforce
4 99 (6.15%) Oracle
5 89 (5.53%) SAP
6 52 (3.23%) Google
7 39 (2.42%) Informatica
8 32 (1.99%) Palantir
9 31 (1.93%) Foundry
10 27 (1.68%) Cloudera
11 23 (1.43%) Dell
11 23 (1.43%) OpenAI
12 20 (1.24%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.24%) ServiceNow
13 19 (1.18%) Talend
14 13 (0.81%) Sparx
15 11 (0.68%) IBM
16 10 (0.62%) Workday
17 9 (0.56%) Automation Anywhere
17 9 (0.56%) UiPath