Kimball Methodology Job Trends

The Kimball Lifecycle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Kimball Methodology skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 653 651
Rank change year-on-year +48 -2 +132
Permanent jobs citing Kimball Methodology 42 55 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 36 35 45
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,000 £46,015
25th Percentile £69,063 £53,750 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £108,125 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £54,750
% change year-on-year +30.43% +5.02% -8.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Kimball Methodology 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 48,544 49,000 48,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.18% 90.28% 90.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28,525 24,011 36,948
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Kimball Methodology
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kimball Methodology relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Kimball Methodology job vacancy trend in the UK

Kimball Methodology
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kimball Methodology.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Kimball Methodology

Kimball Methodology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kimball Methodology over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kimball Methodology in the UK

Kimball Methodology
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kimball Methodology within the UK over the 6 months to 8 January 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 +54 40 £82,500 +26.92% 14
UK excluding London +41 25 £75,000 +30.43% 12
Work from Home +73 24 £82,500 +10.00% 10
London +56 17 £110,000 +69.23% 8
North of England +23 10 £60,000 - 3
Yorkshire - 9 £60,000 -
South West +5 5 £100,000 +81.82%
South East +18 4 £75,000 +30.43% 7
Midlands +12 4 £71,250 +9.62% 1
West Midlands +20 3 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Scotland -2 2 £102,500 - 1
East Midlands +2 1 £82,500 +17.86%
North East - 1 - - 1

Kimball Methodology
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 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark
1 5 (11.90%) SAS
2 3 (7.14%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (90.48%) Azure
2 17 (40.48%) Power Platform
3 16 (38.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (23.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (19.05%) SaaS
6 7 (16.67%) dbt
7 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (11.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (9.52%) Serverless
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (7.14%) AWS
9 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (7.14%) GitHub
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Stack
10 1 (2.38%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (45.24%) Data Vault
1 19 (45.24%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (42.86%) Data Lake
3 16 (38.10%) Power BI
4 13 (30.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (26.19%) Metadata
6 10 (23.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 9 (21.43%) Data Mining
8 7 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (11.90%) Delta Lake
9 5 (11.90%) SAS EBI
9 5 (11.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
11 3 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
13 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
13 1 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
13 1 (2.38%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Finance
4 8 (19.05%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Architect
1 20 (47.62%) Data Architect
2 14 (33.33%) Senior
3 9 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Azure Architect
4 8 (19.05%) Azure Data Architect
4 8 (19.05%) Senior Architect
4 8 (19.05%) Senior Data Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Data Manager
5 5 (11.90%) Service Manager
6 4 (9.52%) Consultant
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Lead
7 3 (7.14%) Principal Architect
7 3 (7.14%) Principal Data Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Lead Data Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) PySpark
2 3 (7.14%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) EPoS
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Data Modelling
2 20 (47.62%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (40.48%) Data Architecture
4 16 (38.10%) Agile
5 15 (35.71%) Data Governance
5 15 (35.71%) Data Strategy
5 15 (35.71%) ETL
6 13 (30.95%) Data Engineering
6 13 (30.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (26.19%) DevOps
7 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (23.81%) Data Management
9 9 (21.43%) Analytics
9 9 (21.43%) Dimensional Modelling
10 8 (19.05%) Data Design
10 8 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (19.05%) Technical Debt
11 7 (16.67%) Decision-Making
12 6 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) SQL
2 14 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 29 (69.05%) Databricks
2 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) SAP