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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 129 120
Rank change year-on-year +30 -9 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 518 434 813
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.54% 2.78% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 2.94% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 373 255 597
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,338 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -0.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £86,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £69,973 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.65% -3.70% -

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 16,752 14,765 30,420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.20% 94.42% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,192 8,606 23,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 25 June 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 33 (6.37%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (5.02%) Apache Spark
3 24 (4.63%) Apache
4 13 (2.51%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.16%) SAS
7 5 (0.97%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Confluence
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 32 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Blender
3 3 (0.58%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (1.54%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 219 (42.28%) Azure
2 151 (29.15%) Power Platform
3 124 (23.94%) AWS
4 73 (14.09%) GCP
5 65 (12.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 36 (6.95%) Snowflake
8 33 (6.37%) Serverless
9 30 (5.79%) SaaS
10 27 (5.21%) Amazon S3
11 25 (4.83%) dbt
12 22 (4.25%) GitHub
13 20 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (3.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (2.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 12 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.49%) Broadband
2 4 (0.77%) NGN
3 2 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (26.45%) Power BI
2 91 (17.57%) Metadata
3 74 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (10.23%) Data Lake
5 48 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (8.69%) Tableau
7 44 (8.49%) Relational Database
8 39 (7.53%) SQL Server
9 32 (6.18%) Semantic Layer
10 30 (5.79%) BigQuery
11 25 (4.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (4.05%) MySQL
14 20 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 20 (3.86%) Big Data
15 18 (3.47%) MongoDB
15 18 (3.47%) NoSQL
16 17 (3.28%) SAP BW
17 16 (3.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (3.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (7.14%) Git
2 19 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.54%) JIRA
4 6 (1.16%) GitLab
5 3 (0.58%) MLflow
6 1 (0.19%) Ant
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.19%) ERwin
6 1 (0.19%) Mocha
6 1 (0.19%) Postman
6 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.19%) Toad
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 136 (26.25%) Analytical Skills
3 124 (23.94%) Finance
4 80 (15.44%) Public Sector
5 75 (14.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (7.53%) Law
7 27 (5.21%) Retail
8 25 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (4.63%) Marketing
10 11 (2.12%) Banking
10 11 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.12%) Legal
10 11 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.54%) Publishing
12 7 (1.35%) Games
13 4 (0.77%) Billing
13 4 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.77%) Local Government
13 4 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 146 (28.19%) Data Engineer
2 123 (23.75%) Architect
3 102 (19.69%) Senior
4 84 (16.22%) Data Architect
5 73 (14.09%) Lead
6 69 (13.32%) Analyst
7 63 (12.16%) Developer
8 40 (7.72%) Data Analyst
8 40 (7.72%) Senior Data Engineer
9 31 (5.98%) Senior Architect
10 24 (4.63%) Senior Data Architect
11 23 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
12 19 (3.67%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 17 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 16 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.70%) Salesforce Developer
17 13 (2.51%) Consultant
17 13 (2.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.07%) REST
2 40 (7.72%) Node.js
2 40 (7.72%) PySpark
3 34 (6.56%) Kafka
4 20 (3.86%) Middleware
4 20 (3.86%) SOAP
5 19 (3.67%) JSON
5 19 (3.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (3.09%) .NET
6 16 (3.09%) CSS
6 16 (3.09%) React
7 13 (2.51%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (2.51%) Visualforce
8 12 (2.32%) XML
9 9 (1.74%) HTML
9 9 (1.74%) RESTful
10 8 (1.54%) Spring
10 8 (1.54%) Tailwind CSS
11 6 (1.16%) LangChain
11 6 (1.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.62%) Data Structures
2 52 (10.04%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.25%) Social Media
5 18 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.12%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.93%) FMCG
10 10 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.93%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.74%) Blog
12 8 (1.54%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.16%) Reference Data
14 6 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.39%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Android
2 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (45.56%) Analytics
2 178 (34.36%) Business Intelligence
3 162 (31.27%) Data Architecture
3 162 (31.27%) Data Engineering
4 142 (27.41%) Agile
4 142 (27.41%) Decision-Making
5 139 (26.83%) AI
6 138 (26.64%) CI/CD
7 130 (25.10%) Data Pipeline
8 129 (24.90%) ETL
9 125 (24.13%) Data Governance
10 120 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (21.62%) Data Strategy
12 95 (18.34%) DevOps
13 87 (16.80%) Mentoring
14 80 (15.44%) Machine Learning
15 75 (14.48%) Roadmaps
16 67 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 61 (11.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 243 (46.91%) SQL
2 205 (39.58%) Python
3 41 (7.92%) JavaScript
4 39 (7.53%) Java
5 32 (6.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (4.83%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.86%) Scala
7 20 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 18 (3.47%) Apex Code
9 14 (2.70%) C#
9 14 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.93%) Bash
11 9 (1.74%) Bicep
12 7 (1.35%) Go
13 6 (1.16%) C++
13 6 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.97%) R
15 4 (0.77%) PHP
15 4 (0.77%) SOQL
15 4 (0.77%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.90%) Degree
1 72 (13.90%) Security Cleared
2 56 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (3.67%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (1.54%) ACCA
6 8 (1.54%) CIMA
7 7 (1.35%) CIPD
7 7 (1.35%) SnowPro
8 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.39%) IIBA
12 1 (0.19%) CBAP
12 1 (0.19%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (36.10%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.14%) GDPR
3 23 (4.44%) QA
4 12 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.77%) PERC
6 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.58%) IFRS
6 3 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (5.02%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (6.76%) Terraform
2 12 (2.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.77%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) Packer
5 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 126 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 100 (19.31%) Databricks
3 45 (8.69%) Salesforce
4 41 (7.92%) Oracle
5 36 (6.95%) SAP
6 13 (2.51%) Google
6 13 (2.51%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.32%) Informatica
8 8 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.35%) Foundry
9 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.16%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.77%) IBM
12 3 (0.58%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.58%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.58%) Epicor
12 3 (0.58%) Infor
12 3 (0.58%) Palantir
12 3 (0.58%) TOWER Software