Hybrid/Remote Data Modelling Job Trends

Data Modelling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 99 119
Rank change year-on-year +22 +20 -21
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 562 418 857
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 3.16% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.33% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 354 214 647
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,544 £37,379
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,795
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,665 12,537 29,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,232 8,912 23,714
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.20%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Modelling
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

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

Data Modelling
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:

Application Platforms
1 42 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.63%) Apache
3 21 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.42%) Confluence
5 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.42%) SAS
6 6 (1.07%) CMS
7 3 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Mendix
Applications
1 37 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.89%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.53%) Sketch
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Notion
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.78%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.71%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 318 (56.58%) Azure
2 132 (23.49%) Power Platform
3 122 (21.71%) AWS
4 108 (19.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 96 (17.08%) Snowflake
6 76 (13.52%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (12.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 60 (10.68%) GCP
9 56 (9.96%) dbt
10 55 (9.79%) GitHub
11 44 (7.83%) Serverless
12 36 (6.41%) GitHub Copilot
13 31 (5.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 29 (5.16%) Amazon S3
15 28 (4.98%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 24 (4.27%) SaaS
17 17 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
18 13 (2.31%) Power Automate
18 13 (2.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.91%) Broadband
2 3 (0.53%) NGN
3 1 (0.18%) ADSL
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
3 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (23.84%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (21.17%) Power BI
3 77 (13.70%) Metadata
4 69 (12.28%) Data Lake
5 48 (8.54%) SQL Server
6 44 (7.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 41 (7.30%) Tableau
8 37 (6.58%) Relational Database
9 29 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
10 28 (4.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 25 (4.45%) Amazon Redshift
12 24 (4.27%) MySQL
13 21 (3.74%) BigQuery
13 21 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (3.20%) NoSQL
15 17 (3.02%) Delta Lake
16 14 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
17 13 (2.31%) Amazon QuickSight
17 13 (2.31%) Snowflake Schema
18 12 (2.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 38 (6.76%) Git
2 25 (4.45%) JIRA
3 6 (1.07%) ERwin
4 5 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.36%) git-flow
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) MLflow
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 198 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 193 (34.34%) Finance
3 148 (26.33%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.57%) Public Sector
5 40 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.41%) Law
7 33 (5.87%) Marketing
8 23 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (3.02%) Retail
10 12 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.96%) Publishing
12 10 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.78%) Legal
13 8 (1.42%) Banking
14 7 (1.25%) Games
15 6 (1.07%) Advertising
15 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.89%) Back Office
16 5 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (24.56%) Data Engineer
2 135 (24.02%) Architect
3 105 (18.68%) Senior
4 89 (15.84%) Data Architect
5 69 (12.28%) Developer
6 64 (11.39%) Lead
7 61 (10.85%) Analyst
8 39 (6.94%) Senior Data Engineer
9 37 (6.58%) Data Analyst
10 24 (4.27%) Lead Data Engineer
11 19 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (3.38%) Salesforce Developer
12 18 (3.20%) Consultant
12 18 (3.20%) Salesforce Engineer
13 17 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (3.02%) Senior Architect
14 16 (2.85%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 13 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (2.14%) Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (9.79%) REST
2 40 (7.12%) Lightning Web Components
3 39 (6.94%) SOAP
4 37 (6.58%) PySpark
5 33 (5.87%) Kafka
6 26 (4.63%) .NET
7 23 (4.09%) Middleware
8 18 (3.20%) Visualforce
9 15 (2.67%) JSON
10 14 (2.49%) React
11 12 (2.14%) CSS
11 12 (2.14%) HTML
11 12 (2.14%) Node.js
12 11 (1.96%) XML
13 8 (1.42%) YAML
14 6 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
14 6 (1.07%) RESTful
15 5 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
15 5 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (0.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.72%) Product Ownership
2 47 (8.36%) Cloud Native
3 42 (7.47%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.67%) Social Media
9 14 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.14%) FMCG
11 11 (1.96%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.78%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.42%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (1.07%) Anti-Piracy
16 5 (0.89%) Data Fabric
16 5 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.71%) Android
1 4 (0.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (47.15%) Analytics
2 185 (32.92%) Data Engineering
3 183 (32.56%) Agile
4 171 (30.43%) ETL
5 164 (29.18%) Business Intelligence
5 164 (29.18%) Data Architecture
6 154 (27.40%) DevOps
7 148 (26.33%) CI/CD
8 141 (25.09%) Data Pipeline
9 132 (23.49%) AI
10 128 (22.78%) Data Governance
11 119 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
12 112 (19.93%) Decision-Making
13 98 (17.44%) Data Integration
14 95 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (16.73%) Mentoring
16 86 (15.30%) Coaching
17 77 (13.70%) Data Management
18 72 (12.81%) Data Strategy
18 72 (12.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 246 (43.77%) SQL
2 215 (38.26%) Python
3 51 (9.07%) JavaScript
4 50 (8.90%) Java
5 39 (6.94%) Apex Code
6 31 (5.52%) C#
7 30 (5.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 29 (5.16%) TypeScript
9 25 (4.45%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.45%) Scala
10 22 (3.91%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.96%) Bash
12 8 (1.42%) Go
13 7 (1.25%) PHP
14 6 (1.07%) C++
15 5 (0.89%) R
16 4 (0.71%) Bicep
16 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.36%) Groovy
17 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 84 (14.95%) Degree
2 62 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 53 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (4.63%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.91%) TOGAF Certification
7 18 (3.20%) AWS Certification
7 18 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.14%) ACCA
9 12 (2.14%) CIMA
9 12 (2.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 6 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.53%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.36%) IIBA
12 2 (0.36%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (25.62%) Data Quality
2 44 (7.83%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.69%) GDPR
4 21 (3.74%) QA
5 12 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.53%) PERC
7 2 (0.36%) IFRS
7 2 (0.36%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.36%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (2.14%) Active Directory
1 12 (2.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (6.05%) Terraform
2 7 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.53%) Control-M
4 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 158 (28.11%) Microsoft
2 107 (19.04%) Databricks
3 59 (10.50%) Salesforce
4 27 (4.80%) Oracle
5 24 (4.27%) SAP
6 17 (3.02%) Google
6 17 (3.02%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.14%) Informatica
8 11 (1.96%) IBM
9 6 (1.07%) Foundry
9 6 (1.07%) Talend
10 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.71%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.71%) Palantir
11 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.53%) BMC
12 3 (0.53%) Sparx
13 2 (0.36%) iManage
13 2 (0.36%) Planon