Hybrid/Remote Data Design Job Trends

Data Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 433 436
Rank change year-on-year +86 +3 +211
Permanent jobs citing Data Design 25 25 43
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 38
10th Percentile £58,088 - £55,500
25th Percentile £60,875 £56,809 £56,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £75,389 £72,085
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% +4.58% -3.89%
75th Percentile £110,000 £78,458 £89,375
90th Percentile - £79,670 £111,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% +8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,621 16,321 19,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.28% 92.29% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,730 9,931 15,296
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,153
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.20% -2.16%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Design and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Design job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Design
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Design

Data Design
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Design over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Data Design salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) SaaS
3 9 (36.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (20.00%) AWS
5 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (8.00%) Lucidchart
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) ADSL
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 9 (36.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 9 (36.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (32.00%) Data Mining
4 8 (32.00%) Data Vault
4 8 (32.00%) Metadata
5 5 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (20.00%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (12.00%) Power BI
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
8 1 (4.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) ER Studio
1 2 (8.00%) ERwin
1 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 9 (36.00%) Retail
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Advertising
5 1 (4.00%) Back Office
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Architect
2 19 (76.00%) Data Architect
3 11 (44.00%) Senior
4 9 (36.00%) Azure Architect
4 9 (36.00%) Senior Architect
5 8 (32.00%) Azure Data Architect
5 8 (32.00%) Senior Data Architect
6 5 (20.00%) Developer
7 4 (16.00%) Lead
7 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
8 2 (8.00%) .NET Web Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Lead Architect
8 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Principal Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Senior Web Developer
8 2 (8.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
1 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (8.00%) CSS
1 2 (8.00%) Flutter
1 2 (8.00%) HTML
1 2 (8.00%) Middleware
1 2 (8.00%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (8.00%) React
1 2 (8.00%) RESTful
1 2 (8.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (52.00%) Data Strategy
2 13 (52.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 11 (44.00%) Data Architecture
4 9 (36.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (32.00%) Kimball Methodology
6 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (24.00%) Data Management
7 6 (24.00%) Master Data Management
8 5 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 5 (20.00%) Data Transformation
8 5 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
8 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
9 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
9 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
9 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (12.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) Go
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (8.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Databricks
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow