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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 127 110
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 1,818 1,213 1,746
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.58% 2.46% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.77% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 624 958
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 83,912 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 58,112 24,707 35,897
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 £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 17 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 17 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 +6 1,672 £70,000 +1.45% 2,616
UK excluding London 0 900 £62,500 -1.57% 1,257
London +5 768 £82,500 +3.13% 1,576
Work from Home +40 563 £65,000 -3.70% 1,113
North of England +74 345 £64,500 +3.20% 298
South East -77 194 £62,500 -3.85% 322
Midlands +5 163 £62,500 -1.57% 211
North West +61 155 £62,500 +5.49% 177
West Midlands +6 117 £62,500 +3.73% 141
South West -22 108 £69,973 +11.96% 134
Yorkshire +8 107 £67,500 - 91
North East +5 83 £65,000 +31.98% 32
East of England -28 47 £63,750 +6.25% 98
East Midlands -41 46 £59,000 -9.23% 70
Scotland -15 25 £70,000 +14.29% 129
Wales -52 22 £63,500 - 32
Northern Ireland -73 2 £60,000 - 44

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 (6.44%) Apache Spark
2 108 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (4.57%) Apache
4 34 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 28 (1.54%) Confluence
6 18 (0.99%) 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%) JBoss
14 1 (0.055%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.055%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 82 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.66%) 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 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 31 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.05%) SAP MDG
4 12 (0.66%) 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
11 3 (0.17%) SAP BPC
12 2 (0.11%) Infor M3
12 2 (0.11%) SAP IBP
13 1 (0.055%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 720 (39.60%) Azure
2 542 (29.81%) Power Platform
3 456 (25.08%) AWS
4 252 (13.86%) GCP
5 201 (11.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 164 (9.02%) Snowflake
7 144 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (7.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 139 (7.65%) dbt
9 100 (5.50%) Serverless
10 94 (5.17%) Amazon S3
11 80 (4.40%) SaaS
12 74 (4.07%) Azure Databricks
13 70 (3.85%) Power Automate
14 68 (3.74%) GitHub
15 63 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
16 57 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
16 57 (3.14%) PowerApps
17 54 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
18 41 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.71%) 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
1 500 (27.50%) Power BI
2 370 (20.35%) Data Warehouse
3 247 (13.59%) Metadata
4 225 (12.38%) Data Lake
5 140 (7.70%) Tableau
6 139 (7.65%) SQL Server
7 108 (5.94%) Relational Database
8 94 (5.17%) Star Schema
9 91 (5.01%) BigQuery
10 86 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
11 84 (4.62%) Semantic Layer
12 83 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 81 (4.46%) Big Data
14 78 (4.29%) Delta Lake
15 77 (4.24%) NoSQL
16 75 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (3.30%) Data Vault
18 59 (3.25%) Power Query
19 57 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
20 51 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 160 (8.80%) Git
2 51 (2.81%) JIRA
3 48 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.42%) Claude Code
5 26 (1.43%) GitLab
6 24 (1.32%) 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%) Flyway
11 2 (0.11%) Gradle
11 2 (0.11%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.11%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 626 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 562 (30.91%) Finance
3 488 (26.84%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 94 (5.17%) Marketing
7 86 (4.73%) Retail
8 75 (4.13%) Law
9 72 (3.96%) Legal
10 66 (3.63%) Manufacturing
11 54 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (2.48%) Banking
13 30 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 29 (1.60%) Billing
15 26 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.77%) Front Office
19 13 (0.72%) Advertising
19 13 (0.72%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 439 (24.15%) Data Engineer
2 418 (22.99%) Architect
3 394 (21.67%) Senior
4 304 (16.72%) Data Architect
5 206 (11.33%) Analyst
6 190 (10.45%) Lead
7 184 (10.12%) Developer
8 111 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
9 100 (5.50%) Data Analyst
10 71 (3.91%) Consultant
11 64 (3.52%) Senior Architect
12 55 (3.03%) Data Modeller
13 54 (2.97%) Senior Data Architect
14 52 (2.86%) Business Analyst
15 47 (2.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 46 (2.53%) Software Engineer
17 45 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
18 44 (2.42%) Databricks Engineer
18 44 (2.42%) Principal Engineer
18 44 (2.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (8.80%) PySpark
2 121 (6.66%) REST
3 112 (6.16%) Terraform
4 108 (5.94%) Kafka
5 67 (3.69%) Node.js
5 67 (3.69%) React
6 58 (3.19%) .NET
7 48 (2.64%) SOAP
8 47 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
8 47 (2.59%) Middleware
9 44 (2.42%) JSON
10 36 (1.98%) CSS
11 35 (1.93%) LangChain
12 33 (1.82%) AngularJS
12 33 (1.82%) XML
13 26 (1.43%) RESTful
14 22 (1.21%) Next.js
14 22 (1.21%) Spring
15 21 (1.16%) HTML
15 21 (1.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 178 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.22%) Data Structures
3 103 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 79 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 68 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 49 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.20%) AI Agents
8 37 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
14 25 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 23 (1.27%) Clustering
16 22 (1.21%) Taxonomies
17 20 (1.10%) Reinsurance
18 19 (1.05%) Replication
19 17 (0.94%) Mobile App
19 17 (0.94%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.43%) Windows
2 24 (1.32%) Linux
3 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.11%) Solaris
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 1 (0.055%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (45.87%) Analytics
2 664 (36.52%) Business Intelligence
3 635 (34.93%) AI
4 538 (29.59%) Data Governance
5 514 (28.27%) Data Engineering
6 497 (27.34%) ETL
7 491 (27.01%) Data Pipeline
8 469 (25.80%) Data Architecture
9 466 (25.63%) Agile
10 464 (25.52%) Decision-Making
11 456 (25.08%) CI/CD
12 406 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
13 340 (18.70%) DevOps
14 336 (18.48%) Roadmaps
15 301 (16.56%) Mentoring
16 290 (15.95%) Data Strategy
17 270 (14.85%) Machine Learning
18 264 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
19 263 (14.47%) Technical Leadership
20 260 (14.30%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 941 (51.76%) SQL
2 705 (38.78%) Python
3 123 (6.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 99 (5.45%) Java
5 96 (5.28%) C#
6 88 (4.84%) TypeScript
7 80 (4.40%) Scala
8 72 (3.96%) JavaScript
9 43 (2.37%) Apex Code
10 36 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 28 (1.54%) R
12 23 (1.27%) PowerShell
13 22 (1.21%) 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
1 240 (13.20%) Security Cleared
2 203 (11.17%) Degree
3 152 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 46 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 31 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 29 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 26 (1.43%) DBS Check
12 18 (0.99%) SnowPro
13 14 (0.77%) 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
1 663 (36.47%) Data Quality
2 135 (7.43%) GDPR
3 84 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 65 (3.58%) QA
5 28 (1.54%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.17%) SLA
11 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.17%) UCITS
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.11%) PERC
13 1 (0.055%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 96 (5.28%) Docker
2 11 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.39%) NDS
4 1 (0.055%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 64 (3.52%) 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%) Failover Clustering
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
1 437 (24.04%) Microsoft
2 348 (19.14%) Databricks
3 108 (5.94%) Oracle
4 107 (5.89%) SAP
5 106 (5.83%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.74%) Google
7 36 (1.98%) Informatica
8 22 (1.21%) Talend
9 19 (1.05%) ServiceNow
10 17 (0.94%) Cloudera
11 16 (0.88%) 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