Data Modelling Job Trends in Wales

Data Modelling
UK > Wales

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 67 70
Rank change year-on-year -45 +3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 23 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.70% 0.23% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.28% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17 0 8
10th Percentile £44,211 - £40,955
25th Percentile £52,500 - £41,309
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 - £49,658
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.01%
75th Percentile £69,000 - £60,938
90th Percentile £84,500 - £65,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +0.74% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,086 724 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 63.91% 84.28% 67.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,448 524 564
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +7.78% -1.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,299
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Wales

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Wales over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in Wales

Data Modelling
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
South Wales -25 20 £63,500 - 26
West Wales - 1 - - 2
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Power Platform
2 12 (52.17%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Power Automate
3 7 (30.43%) PowerApps
4 6 (26.09%) dbt
5 5 (21.74%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (17.39%) Prefect
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Databricks
7 3 (13.04%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (13.04%) GCP
7 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (8.70%) AWS
8 2 (8.70%) Dagster
8 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
8 2 (8.70%) Vertex AI
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Data Lake
1 8 (34.78%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 3 (13.04%) Delta Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Looker
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.35%) Data Vault
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Flyway
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Local Government
4 2 (8.70%) Welsh Language
5 1 (4.35%) Games
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Data Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) Senior
3 8 (34.78%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Power Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Low-Code Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Administrator
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
7 1 (4.35%) DBA
7 1 (4.35%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Insight Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior DBA
7 1 (4.35%) Senior SQL DBA
7 1 (4.35%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) PySpark
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (8.70%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (60.87%) Analytics
3 13 (56.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (52.17%) AI
4 12 (52.17%) Data Engineering
5 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
6 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (39.13%) ETL
7 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
8 8 (34.78%) Data Governance
9 7 (30.43%) DataOps
9 7 (30.43%) Decision-Making
9 7 (30.43%) DevOps
9 7 (30.43%) Lakehouse
9 7 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (26.09%) Agile
10 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (26.09%) Visualisation
11 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.35%) Bicep
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (52.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Databricks
3 3 (13.04%) Foundry
4 2 (8.70%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle