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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 132 126
Rank change year-on-year +28 -6 -27
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 525 430 790
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.52% 2.69% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.87% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 378 257 582
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,425 £55,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £84,688 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £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 17,138 14,975 29,784
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.33% 93.80% 89.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,509 8,834 22,919
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £75,662
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 2 July 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 31 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.38%) Apache
4 13 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.14%) SAS
7 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Blender
3 3 (0.57%) 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 (2.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.33%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 220 (41.90%) Azure
2 159 (30.29%) Power Platform
3 118 (22.48%) AWS
4 73 (13.90%) GCP
5 64 (12.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 37 (7.05%) Snowflake
8 31 (5.90%) SaaS
8 31 (5.90%) Serverless
9 26 (4.95%) dbt
10 25 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 21 (4.00%) GitHub
12 19 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 14 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (2.48%) PowerApps
16 12 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.38%) Broadband
2 4 (0.76%) NGN
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (27.24%) Power BI
2 91 (17.33%) Metadata
3 78 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (9.90%) Data Lake
5 48 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (8.38%) Relational Database
6 44 (8.38%) SQL Server
7 43 (8.19%) Tableau
8 33 (6.29%) Semantic Layer
9 30 (5.71%) BigQuery
10 29 (5.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (4.00%) MySQL
12 20 (3.81%) Big Data
13 19 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 18 (3.43%) MongoDB
15 17 (3.24%) SAP BW
15 17 (3.24%) Star Schema
16 16 (3.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (6.86%) Git
2 19 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.33%) JIRA
4 6 (1.14%) GitLab
5 3 (0.57%) 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
1 193 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 142 (27.05%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (24.00%) Finance
4 81 (15.43%) Public Sector
5 74 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.24%) Law
7 27 (5.14%) Retail
8 26 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (4.19%) Marketing
10 12 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.10%) Banking
11 11 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.90%) Legal
13 7 (1.33%) Games
13 7 (1.33%) Publishing
14 5 (0.95%) Local Government
14 5 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.76%) Billing
15 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 147 (28.00%) Data Engineer
2 122 (23.24%) Architect
3 108 (20.57%) Senior
4 85 (16.19%) Data Architect
5 71 (13.52%) Analyst
5 71 (13.52%) Lead
6 65 (12.38%) Developer
7 42 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 39 (7.43%) Data Analyst
9 33 (6.29%) Senior Architect
10 26 (4.95%) Senior Data Architect
11 21 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
12 19 (3.62%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 16 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
15 14 (2.67%) Consultant
16 13 (2.48%) Software Engineer
16 13 (2.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.95%) REST
2 41 (7.81%) PySpark
3 39 (7.43%) Node.js
4 33 (6.29%) Kafka
5 19 (3.62%) JSON
5 19 (3.62%) Middleware
5 19 (3.62%) SOAP
6 18 (3.43%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (2.86%) .NET
7 15 (2.86%) CSS
7 15 (2.86%) React
8 14 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (2.29%) Visualforce
9 12 (2.29%) XML
10 9 (1.71%) RESTful
11 8 (1.52%) HTML
11 8 (1.52%) Spring
11 8 (1.52%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (1.14%) LangChain
12 6 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.29%) Data Structures
2 53 (10.10%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.19%) Social Media
5 19 (3.62%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.10%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 11 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.90%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.71%) Blog
9 9 (1.71%) FMCG
10 8 (1.52%) Data Fabric
11 7 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.33%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Android
2 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (45.14%) Analytics
2 183 (34.86%) Business Intelligence
3 165 (31.43%) Data Architecture
4 160 (30.48%) Data Engineering
5 148 (28.19%) Decision-Making
6 143 (27.24%) AI
7 139 (26.48%) Agile
8 136 (25.90%) CI/CD
9 130 (24.76%) ETL
10 128 (24.38%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (24.00%) Data Governance
12 124 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (22.48%) Data Strategy
14 92 (17.52%) DevOps
15 86 (16.38%) Mentoring
16 80 (15.24%) Machine Learning
17 78 (14.86%) Roadmaps
18 71 (13.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 69 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 61 (11.62%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 244 (46.48%) SQL
2 199 (37.90%) Python
3 38 (7.24%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.86%) Java
5 34 (6.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.38%) T-SQL
6 23 (4.38%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.62%) Scala
8 17 (3.24%) Apex Code
9 15 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.67%) C#
11 9 (1.71%) Bash
11 9 (1.71%) Bicep
12 7 (1.33%) C++
12 7 (1.33%) Go
12 7 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.95%) R
14 4 (0.76%) PHP
14 4 (0.76%) SOQL
14 4 (0.76%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 69 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.95%) Degree
3 53 (10.10%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.71%) CIPD
9 7 (1.33%) ACCA
9 7 (1.33%) CIMA
9 7 (1.33%) SnowPro
10 6 (1.14%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.38%) IIBA
15 1 (0.19%) CBAP
15 1 (0.19%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (35.81%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.05%) GDPR
3 23 (4.38%) QA
4 12 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.76%) PERC
6 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.57%) IFRS
6 3 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (4.95%) Docker
2 8 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (6.48%) Terraform
2 12 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.76%) Ansible
4 3 (0.57%) Packer
5 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 132 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 99 (18.86%) Databricks
3 43 (8.19%) Oracle
3 43 (8.19%) Salesforce
4 37 (7.05%) SAP
5 15 (2.86%) Google
6 12 (2.29%) Informatica
6 12 (2.29%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.52%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.33%) Foundry
8 7 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.14%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.76%) IBM
11 3 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.57%) Epicor
11 3 (0.57%) IFS
11 3 (0.57%) Infor
11 3 (0.57%) Palantir
11 3 (0.57%) TOWER Software