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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 125 111
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,784 1,220 1,730
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 2.48% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 2.80% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,164 617 961
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% +4.47%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,270
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +9.88%

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 82,954 43,576 62,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.83% 88.69% 80.93%
Number of salaries quoted 57,665 24,452 36,140
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £76,500
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 15 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 15 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 -2 1,643 £70,000 +2.94% 2,999
UK excluding London -4 881 £62,500 -1.57% 1,404
London +3 753 £82,500 +6.45% 1,845
Work from Home +37 546 £65,000 -3.70% 1,261
North of England +82 346 £65,000 +4.00% 355
South East -87 187 £62,500 -3.85% 335
North West +66 155 £62,500 +5.49% 219
Midlands -7 154 £62,500 -1.57% 232
West Midlands -2 110 £62,500 +3.73% 164
Yorkshire +4 109 £68,005 +0.75% 103
South West -25 107 £69,973 +11.96% 160
North East +4 82 £65,000 +31.98% 35
East of England -24 47 £67,500 +12.50% 110
East Midlands -30 44 £59,732 -8.10% 68
Scotland -14 24 £70,000 +14.29% 138
Wales -53 20 £63,500 - 28
Northern Ireland -76 2 £60,000 - 56

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 (6.56%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (4.60%) Apache
4 35 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 28 (1.57%) Confluence
6 18 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.73%) SAS
8 9 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.28%) CMS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Luigi
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) Tornado
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.056%) Apache Superset
13 1 (0.056%) JBoss
13 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 80 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (0.45%) 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 (0.056%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.056%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 36 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 30 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.07%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
7 8 (0.45%) SAP MDG-BP
8 6 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 5 (0.28%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 5 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
10 3 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.11%) SAP BPC
11 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
12 1 (0.056%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 706 (39.57%) Azure
2 529 (29.65%) Power Platform
3 456 (25.56%) AWS
4 247 (13.85%) GCP
5 196 (10.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 160 (8.97%) Snowflake
7 137 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
7 137 (7.68%) dbt
8 134 (7.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 96 (5.38%) Serverless
10 93 (5.21%) Amazon S3
11 78 (4.37%) SaaS
12 76 (4.26%) Azure Databricks
13 69 (3.87%) Power Automate
14 65 (3.64%) GitHub
15 64 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
16 56 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
16 56 (3.14%) PowerApps
17 53 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
18 40 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.79%) Broadband
2 12 (0.67%) VPN
3 6 (0.34%) BGP
3 6 (0.34%) DMZ
3 6 (0.34%) DNS
3 6 (0.34%) Ethernet
3 6 (0.34%) IPsec
3 6 (0.34%) IPv4
3 6 (0.34%) Modbus
3 6 (0.34%) OSPF
3 6 (0.34%) SMS
3 6 (0.34%) VLAN
4 4 (0.22%) Internet
5 3 (0.17%) LTE
5 3 (0.17%) NGN
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
1 488 (27.35%) Power BI
2 361 (20.24%) Data Warehouse
3 242 (13.57%) Metadata
4 225 (12.61%) Data Lake
5 139 (7.79%) Tableau
6 133 (7.46%) SQL Server
7 107 (6.00%) Relational Database
8 89 (4.99%) Star Schema
9 86 (4.82%) BigQuery
10 85 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
11 82 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (4.54%) Big Data
13 80 (4.48%) Semantic Layer
14 78 (4.37%) Delta Lake
15 74 (4.15%) NoSQL
16 66 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (3.36%) Data Vault
18 56 (3.14%) Power Query
19 53 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
20 50 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 152 (8.52%) Git
2 51 (2.86%) JIRA
3 48 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.35%) Claude Code
5 24 (1.35%) GitLab
5 24 (1.35%) MLflow
6 9 (0.50%) ERwin
7 6 (0.34%) Ant
7 6 (0.34%) Toad
8 4 (0.22%) Maven
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.17%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.11%) Gradle
10 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.11%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 624 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 552 (30.94%) Finance
3 487 (27.30%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 141 (7.90%) Public Sector
6 92 (5.16%) Marketing
7 85 (4.76%) Retail
8 76 (4.26%) Law
9 69 (3.87%) Legal
10 64 (3.59%) Manufacturing
11 53 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (2.47%) Banking
13 30 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 27 (1.51%) Billing
15 24 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.12%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.73%) Front Office
18 13 (0.73%) Local Government
18 13 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 432 (24.22%) Data Engineer
2 414 (23.21%) Architect
3 386 (21.64%) Senior
4 303 (16.98%) Data Architect
5 199 (11.15%) Analyst
6 189 (10.59%) Lead
7 181 (10.15%) Developer
8 112 (6.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 98 (5.49%) Data Analyst
10 69 (3.87%) Consultant
11 63 (3.53%) Senior Architect
12 54 (3.03%) Data Modeller
12 54 (3.03%) Senior Data Architect
13 52 (2.91%) Business Analyst
14 46 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 46 (2.58%) Databricks Engineer
15 44 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
16 43 (2.41%) Senior Developer
17 42 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
17 42 (2.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (8.86%) PySpark
2 120 (6.73%) REST
3 111 (6.22%) Terraform
4 107 (6.00%) Kafka
5 65 (3.64%) Node.js
6 64 (3.59%) React
7 55 (3.08%) .NET
8 46 (2.58%) Lightning Web Components
8 46 (2.58%) SOAP
9 45 (2.52%) JSON
10 44 (2.47%) Middleware
11 35 (1.96%) LangChain
11 35 (1.96%) XML
12 34 (1.91%) CSS
13 31 (1.74%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.35%) RESTful
15 21 (1.18%) Next.js
15 21 (1.18%) Spring
16 20 (1.12%) pgvector
16 20 (1.12%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 175 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 100 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 77 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 66 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 48 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.19%) AI Agents
8 36 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
9 34 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 27 (1.51%) Distributed Computing
13 25 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.18%) Clustering
14 21 (1.18%) Taxonomies
15 19 (1.07%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.07%) Replication
16 18 (1.01%) Social Media
17 17 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.29%) Linux
1 23 (1.29%) Windows
2 3 (0.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 1 (0.056%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (46.24%) Analytics
2 650 (36.43%) Business Intelligence
3 627 (35.15%) AI
4 535 (29.99%) Data Governance
5 505 (28.31%) Data Engineering
6 493 (27.63%) ETL
7 482 (27.02%) Data Pipeline
8 460 (25.78%) Data Architecture
9 455 (25.50%) Decision-Making
10 452 (25.34%) Agile
11 441 (24.72%) CI/CD
12 402 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
13 335 (18.78%) Roadmaps
14 330 (18.50%) DevOps
15 295 (16.54%) Mentoring
16 287 (16.09%) Data Strategy
17 272 (15.25%) Machine Learning
18 260 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
19 258 (14.46%) Lakehouse
20 257 (14.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 926 (51.91%) SQL
2 701 (39.29%) Python
3 120 (6.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 98 (5.49%) Java
5 91 (5.10%) C#
6 83 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 80 (4.48%) Scala
8 71 (3.98%) JavaScript
9 42 (2.35%) Apex Code
10 35 (1.96%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.57%) R
12 22 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.12%) Bicep
14 17 (0.95%) SOQL
15 15 (0.84%) SOSL
16 12 (0.67%) PL/SQL
17 11 (0.62%) Bash
17 11 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 236 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 198 (11.10%) Degree
3 146 (8.18%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 49 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 28 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (1.51%) DBS Check
12 18 (1.01%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.50%) CIPD
16 6 (0.34%) CSPO
16 6 (0.34%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.34%) SAP Certification
17 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 4 (0.22%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 650 (36.43%) Data Quality
2 131 (7.34%) GDPR
3 83 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 66 (3.70%) QA
5 26 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 8 (0.45%) PMO
7 7 (0.39%) IFRS
7 7 (0.39%) WCAG
8 6 (0.34%) 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%) PERC
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%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.056%) HL7
System Software
1 94 (5.27%) Docker
2 10 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.39%) NDS
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 62 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.07%) Ansible
3 8 (0.45%) Packer
4 6 (0.34%) 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 (0.056%) Consul
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 422 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 352 (19.73%) Databricks
3 105 (5.89%) Oracle
4 103 (5.77%) Salesforce
4 103 (5.77%) SAP
5 63 (3.53%) Google
6 33 (1.85%) Informatica
7 20 (1.12%) Talend
8 19 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 17 (0.95%) Cloudera
10 16 (0.90%) Foundry
10 16 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 15 (0.84%) Dell
11 15 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 13 (0.73%) Palantir
13 11 (0.62%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.56%) CyberArk
14 10 (0.56%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.56%) Okta
14 10 (0.56%) OpenText