Data Modelling Jobs

Data Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 103 110
Rank change year-on-year -37 +7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,165 2,487 3,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.23% 2.53% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.94% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 607 1,538 1,839
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £65,200 £67,003
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% -2.69% +3.08%
75th Percentile £81,750 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

All Process and 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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling.

Salary trend for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in the UK

Data Modelling
Top 18 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 30 April 2025. 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 -25 1,024 £65,000 -3.70% 973
UK excluding London -26 664 £60,000 - 415
Work from Home +11 423 £65,000 +4.00% 542
London -34 415 £75,000 - 581
South East +60 231 £65,000 - 96
North of England -96 113 £56,250 -8.10% 105
Midlands -35 105 £62,500 +14.36% 85
Scotland +26 89 £52,000 -20.00% 28
South West +63 88 £55,000 - 67
North West -86 82 £52,500 -20.75% 65
West Midlands -34 76 £60,000 +9.09% 64
East of England +13 31 £67,500 +43.18% 28
East Midlands +14 29 £64,750 +36.32% 18
Yorkshire -4 29 £60,000 +20.00% 36
North East -3 6 £55,603 -12.95% 4
Northern Ireland +37 4 - - 12
Channel Islands - 2 £78,750 -
Wales -3 1 £37,500 -31.82% 6

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (6.61%) Apache Spark
2 76 (6.52%) Oracle Application Server
3 42 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (3.00%) Apache
5 17 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 15 (1.29%) Confluence
7 12 (1.03%) SAS
8 10 (0.86%) Luigi
9 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.17%) IBM Domino
11 1 (0.086%) Appian
11 1 (0.086%) CMS
11 1 (0.086%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 94 (8.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.46%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.086%) Sketch
6 1 (0.086%) Trello
Business Applications
1 37 (3.18%) NetSuite
2 14 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.52%) Infor M3
3 6 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.086%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.086%) SAP CAR
7 1 (0.086%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.086%) SAP Retail
7 1 (0.086%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 453 (38.88%) Azure
2 328 (28.15%) Power Platform
3 243 (20.86%) AWS
4 144 (12.36%) GCP
5 112 (9.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 101 (8.67%) Snowflake
7 62 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 52 (4.46%) SaaS
9 46 (3.95%) Serverless
10 45 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
11 44 (3.78%) dbt
12 42 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
13 41 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
14 40 (3.43%) Power Automate
15 38 (3.26%) PowerApps
16 27 (2.32%) Amazon S3
17 24 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
18 22 (1.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
19 18 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.43%) HTTP
2 3 (0.26%) 5G
2 3 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.086%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 363 (31.16%) Data Warehouse
2 306 (26.27%) Power BI
3 145 (12.45%) Data Lake
4 127 (10.90%) Tableau
5 116 (9.96%) Metadata
6 101 (8.67%) SQL Server
7 97 (8.33%) NoSQL
8 83 (7.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 80 (6.87%) Oracle Reports
10 75 (6.44%) Big Data
11 68 (5.84%) Relational Database
12 54 (4.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 47 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 44 (3.78%) Power Query
15 42 (3.61%) BigQuery
16 37 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
17 34 (2.92%) Hadoop
18 32 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 29 (2.49%) Data Mining
20 26 (2.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (6.61%) JIRA
2 42 (3.61%) Git
3 16 (1.37%) MagicDraw
4 14 (1.20%) ERwin
5 12 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.77%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.34%) MLflow
9 3 (0.26%) JUnit
9 3 (0.26%) LSMW
9 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.17%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.17%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.17%) Subversion
10 2 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.086%) kappa
11 1 (0.086%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.086%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 493 (42.32%) Social Skills
2 359 (30.82%) Analytical Skills
3 346 (29.70%) Finance
4 158 (13.56%) Law
5 88 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
6 77 (6.61%) Marketing
7 75 (6.44%) Military
8 73 (6.27%) Banking
9 56 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 46 (3.95%) Public Sector
11 36 (3.09%) Legal
12 32 (2.75%) Retail
13 25 (2.15%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.97%) Retail Banking
15 21 (1.80%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.63%) Advertising
17 17 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
18 16 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.37%) Telecoms
19 12 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 224 (19.23%) Senior
2 207 (17.77%) Data Engineer
3 203 (17.42%) Lead
4 194 (16.65%) Architect
5 151 (12.96%) Developer
6 148 (12.70%) Analyst
7 113 (9.70%) Data Architect
8 75 (6.44%) Senior Data Engineer
9 52 (4.46%) Enterprise Architect
10 50 (4.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 50 (4.29%) Consultant
11 41 (3.52%) Business Analyst
11 41 (3.52%) Senior Developer
12 39 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 38 (3.26%) Data Analyst
14 37 (3.18%) Principal Engineer
15 36 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
16 33 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
17 30 (2.58%) Lead Data Engineer
18 27 (2.32%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.52%) XML
2 75 (6.44%) REST
3 68 (5.84%) SOAP
4 58 (4.98%) Kafka
5 49 (4.21%) HTML
5 49 (4.21%) PySpark
6 42 (3.61%) Middleware
7 37 (3.18%) Lightning Web Components
8 33 (2.83%) Web Services
9 30 (2.58%) RESTful
9 30 (2.58%) Restlet
10 28 (2.40%) .NET
11 27 (2.32%) CSS
12 26 (2.23%) JSON
13 18 (1.55%) ASP.NET
14 16 (1.37%) Pandas
15 14 (1.20%) .NET Core
15 14 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
16 13 (1.12%) AngularJS
16 13 (1.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.67%) Product Ownership
2 65 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
3 54 (4.64%) Management Information System
4 51 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (4.21%) Data Structures
6 39 (3.35%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.92%) Algorithms
8 18 (1.55%) Life Science
8 18 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 15 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.20%) NHS
11 12 (1.03%) Taxonomies
12 11 (0.94%) CMDB
12 11 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.77%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (0.69%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.69%) Public Cloud
15 7 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (0.94%) Linux
1 11 (0.94%) Unix
2 6 (0.52%) Android
2 6 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.43%) Windows
4 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (41.72%) Analytics
2 415 (35.62%) Business Intelligence
3 375 (32.19%) Data Management
4 333 (28.58%) Agile
5 312 (26.78%) ETL
6 285 (24.46%) Data Architecture
7 279 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
8 254 (21.80%) Data Governance
9 237 (20.34%) Visualisation
10 233 (20.00%) DevOps
11 224 (19.23%) Data Engineering
12 195 (16.74%) Data Pipeline
13 183 (15.71%) Data Integration
14 178 (15.28%) Decision-Making
15 171 (14.68%) Data Visualisation
16 158 (13.56%) Computer Science
17 155 (13.30%) Migration
18 150 (12.88%) Data Strategy
19 139 (11.93%) CI/CD
20 137 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 538 (46.18%) SQL
2 303 (26.01%) Python
3 92 (7.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 67 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 58 (4.98%) C#
6 55 (4.72%) Java
7 51 (4.38%) T-SQL
8 40 (3.43%) R
9 35 (3.00%) Apex Code
10 32 (2.75%) Scala
11 24 (2.06%) PowerShell
12 22 (1.89%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.46%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.12%) SPARQL
15 11 (0.94%) C++
16 10 (0.86%) Bash
17 9 (0.77%) Go
18 7 (0.60%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.60%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 237 (20.34%) Degree
2 103 (8.84%) DBS Check
3 77 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 58 (4.98%) Azure Certification
6 47 (4.03%) Security Cleared
7 34 (2.92%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.92%) SC Cleared
8 18 (1.55%) PhD
9 15 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.52%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.43%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.26%) IIBA
15 3 (0.26%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.17%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (22.83%) Data Quality
2 67 (5.75%) Accessibility
3 55 (4.72%) QA
4 44 (3.78%) GDPR
5 11 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.52%) GxP
7 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.34%) NIST
8 4 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.17%) Dublin Core
9 2 (0.17%) EMIR
9 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.17%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.17%) MiFID
9 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (3.09%) Docker
2 14 (1.20%) HDFS
3 7 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (3.78%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.49%) Terraform
3 11 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.34%) Ansible
5 2 (0.17%) Grafana
5 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.086%) Argo
6 1 (0.086%) Kiali
Vendors
1 293 (25.15%) Microsoft
2 138 (11.85%) Oracle
3 120 (10.30%) Databricks
4 80 (6.87%) Salesforce
5 72 (6.18%) Google
5 72 (6.18%) SAP
6 42 (3.61%) Informatica
7 21 (1.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 13 (1.12%) IBM
8 13 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.03%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.86%) Talend
11 6 (0.52%) Infor
11 6 (0.52%) StreamSets
12 5 (0.43%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.43%) Intel
12 5 (0.43%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.43%) Teradata
13 4 (0.34%) Adobe