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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 148 129
Rank change year-on-year +32 -19 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 550 348 590
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.31% 2.15% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.31% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 396 264 315
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,750 £96,550
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 19,480 15,052 20,418
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.91% 92.98% 87.54%
Number of salaries quoted 14,035 8,660 12,878
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,838 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 9 September 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 23 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.82%) Apache
3 14 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Finacle
5 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 220 (40.00%) Azure
2 196 (35.64%) Power Platform
3 117 (21.27%) AWS
4 71 (12.91%) GCP
5 69 (12.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 51 (9.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 47 (8.55%) Snowflake
8 32 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (5.27%) GitHub
10 28 (5.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (4.91%) Serverless
12 23 (4.18%) Amazon S3
12 23 (4.18%) Azure Databricks
12 23 (4.18%) dbt
12 23 (4.18%) SaaS
13 20 (3.64%) PowerApps
14 19 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.55%) Power Automate
17 12 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.91%) Broadband
2 4 (0.73%) NGN
3 2 (0.36%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) ATM
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (33.09%) Power BI
2 113 (20.55%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (18.36%) Metadata
4 60 (10.91%) Data Lake
5 50 (9.09%) Tableau
6 48 (8.73%) SQL Server
7 47 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (7.82%) Relational Database
9 34 (6.18%) Semantic Layer
10 31 (5.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 29 (5.27%) Delta Lake
12 28 (5.09%) MongoDB
12 28 (5.09%) Star Schema
13 26 (4.73%) NoSQL
14 25 (4.55%) BigQuery
15 23 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (4.18%) Big Data
16 20 (3.64%) Data Vault
17 19 (3.45%) DynamoDB
18 16 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (10.36%) Git
2 26 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.64%) JIRA
4 7 (1.27%) GitLab
5 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.55%) MLflow
7 2 (0.36%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.36%) ERwin
8 1 (0.18%) Ant
8 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
8 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.18%) Toad
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 209 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 159 (28.91%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (24.36%) Finance
4 73 (13.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (11.82%) Public Sector
6 38 (6.91%) Law
7 33 (6.00%) Retail
8 24 (4.36%) Marketing
9 20 (3.64%) Banking
9 20 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (3.27%) Legal
11 17 (3.09%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Billing
14 6 (1.09%) Games
15 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.91%) Military
16 4 (0.73%) General Ledger
16 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 139 (25.27%) Data Engineer
2 137 (24.91%) Architect
3 113 (20.55%) Senior
4 99 (18.00%) Data Architect
5 69 (12.55%) Analyst
6 54 (9.82%) Lead
7 47 (8.55%) Developer
8 34 (6.18%) Data Analyst
9 31 (5.64%) Senior Data Engineer
10 30 (5.45%) Senior Architect
11 27 (4.91%) Senior Data Architect
12 20 (3.64%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.64%) Consultant
12 20 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.27%) Software Engineer
14 15 (2.73%) Financial Analyst
15 14 (2.55%) Data Modeller
16 13 (2.36%) Data Consultant
16 13 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
17 12 (2.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (11.27%) PySpark
2 47 (8.55%) Terraform
3 41 (7.45%) REST
4 39 (7.09%) Node.js
5 25 (4.55%) Kafka
6 18 (3.27%) CSS
7 16 (2.91%) React
8 15 (2.73%) JSON
9 14 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
10 11 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (2.00%) RESTful
10 11 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
11 9 (1.64%) Middleware
11 9 (1.64%) Pandas
11 9 (1.64%) SOAP
12 8 (1.45%) Spring
13 7 (1.27%) .NET
13 7 (1.27%) HTML
13 7 (1.27%) Spring Boot
14 6 (1.09%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.82%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.09%) Social Media
7 14 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.00%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.82%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.82%) Blog
11 9 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.45%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.45%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.45%) Taxonomies
13 7 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.09%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
15 5 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.45%) Windows
2 2 (0.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (46.73%) Analytics
2 232 (42.18%) Business Intelligence
3 198 (36.00%) AI
4 181 (32.91%) Data Architecture
5 169 (30.73%) Decision-Making
6 155 (28.18%) Data Engineering
7 149 (27.09%) Agile
8 146 (26.55%) CI/CD
9 142 (25.82%) ETL
10 138 (25.09%) Data Strategy
11 137 (24.91%) Data Pipeline
12 135 (24.55%) Data Governance
13 132 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (17.45%) DevOps
14 96 (17.45%) Roadmaps
15 94 (17.09%) Machine Learning
16 89 (16.18%) Mentoring
17 84 (15.27%) Technical Leadership
18 81 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
19 78 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 278 (50.55%) SQL
2 219 (39.82%) Python
3 42 (7.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 26 (4.73%) Java
4 26 (4.73%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 24 (4.36%) C#
6 24 (4.36%) Scala
7 18 (3.27%) Bicep
7 18 (3.27%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.82%) Apex Code
8 10 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.27%) Go
11 6 (1.09%) R
12 5 (0.91%) Bash
13 4 (0.73%) C++
13 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.55%) Groovy
14 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (12.91%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.09%) Degree
3 49 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.27%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.09%) SnowPro
7 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.64%) CIPD
10 7 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.36%) IIBA
15 1 (0.18%) CBAP
15 1 (0.18%) CITP
15 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (37.45%) Data Quality
2 47 (8.55%) GDPR
3 26 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 24 (4.36%) QA
5 12 (2.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.73%) PERC
6 4 (0.73%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
7 3 (0.55%) UCITS
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (6.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.91%) Ansible
3 3 (0.55%) Packer
4 1 (0.18%) Consul
4 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 172 (31.27%) Microsoft
2 98 (17.82%) Databricks
3 43 (7.82%) Oracle
4 35 (6.36%) SAP
5 28 (5.09%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.91%) Informatica
7 10 (1.82%) Google
8 9 (1.64%) Talend
9 7 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.91%) Infor
11 5 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.73%) Epicor
12 4 (0.73%) Foundry
12 4 (0.73%) IFS
13 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.55%) TOWER Software
13 3 (0.55%) Workday