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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 132 126
Rank change year-on-year +24 -6 -28
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 536 432 767
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.54% 2.66% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 2.84% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 389 260 565
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,425 £55,563 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +1.15% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 17,396 15,199 29,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.50% 93.62% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,715 9,007 22,430
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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 7 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 30 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.29%) Apache
4 13 (2.43%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.12%) SAS
7 5 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 34 (6.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.56%) Blender
3 3 (0.56%) 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 (2.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.12%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 221 (41.23%) Azure
2 164 (30.60%) Power Platform
3 116 (21.64%) AWS
4 72 (13.43%) GCP
5 64 (11.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 41 (7.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (7.28%) Snowflake
8 31 (5.78%) SaaS
9 30 (5.60%) Serverless
10 26 (4.85%) dbt
11 24 (4.48%) Amazon S3
12 21 (3.92%) GitHub
13 19 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (3.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 14 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (2.61%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (2.43%) PowerApps
17 12 (2.24%) Power Automate
17 12 (2.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.21%) Broadband
2 4 (0.75%) NGN
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (27.61%) Power BI
2 92 (17.16%) Metadata
3 86 (16.04%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (10.07%) Data Lake
5 48 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (8.21%) Relational Database
6 44 (8.21%) SQL Server
7 43 (8.02%) Tableau
8 33 (6.16%) Semantic Layer
9 30 (5.60%) BigQuery
9 30 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (3.92%) MySQL
11 20 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (3.73%) Big Data
11 20 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (3.54%) MongoDB
12 19 (3.54%) Star Schema
13 18 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (3.17%) Delta Lake
14 17 (3.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 36 (6.72%) Git
2 19 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.31%) JIRA
4 6 (1.12%) GitLab
5 3 (0.56%) 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
1 199 (37.13%) Social Skills
2 144 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (24.07%) Finance
4 81 (15.11%) Public Sector
5 74 (13.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.09%) Law
7 27 (5.04%) Retail
8 25 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.92%) Marketing
10 13 (2.43%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.24%) Banking
12 11 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.87%) Legal
14 7 (1.31%) Games
15 6 (1.12%) Publishing
16 5 (0.93%) Local Government
16 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.75%) Billing
17 4 (0.75%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 150 (27.99%) Data Engineer
2 125 (23.32%) Architect
3 107 (19.96%) Senior
4 86 (16.04%) Data Architect
5 73 (13.62%) Analyst
6 72 (13.43%) Lead
7 65 (12.13%) Developer
8 42 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 40 (7.46%) Data Analyst
10 33 (6.16%) Senior Architect
11 26 (4.85%) Senior Data Architect
12 20 (3.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 20 (3.73%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (3.54%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 15 (2.80%) Financial Analyst
17 14 (2.61%) Consultant
17 14 (2.61%) Platform Engineer
18 13 (2.43%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.77%) REST
2 43 (8.02%) PySpark
3 39 (7.28%) Node.js
4 33 (6.16%) Kafka
5 19 (3.54%) JSON
5 19 (3.54%) Lightning Web Components
5 19 (3.54%) Middleware
5 19 (3.54%) SOAP
6 15 (2.80%) .NET
6 15 (2.80%) CSS
6 15 (2.80%) React
7 14 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
8 12 (2.24%) Visualforce
8 12 (2.24%) XML
9 9 (1.68%) RESTful
10 8 (1.49%) HTML
10 8 (1.49%) Spring
10 8 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
11 6 (1.12%) LangChain
11 6 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.07%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.10%) Social Media
5 19 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.05%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.87%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.68%) Blog
11 8 (1.49%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.49%) FMCG
12 7 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.31%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Android
2 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (44.96%) Analytics
2 188 (35.07%) Business Intelligence
3 166 (30.97%) Data Architecture
4 164 (30.60%) Data Engineering
5 155 (28.92%) Decision-Making
6 145 (27.05%) AI
7 140 (26.12%) Agile
8 135 (25.19%) CI/CD
9 132 (24.63%) ETL
10 131 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (23.51%) Data Governance
12 125 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
13 120 (22.39%) Data Strategy
14 93 (17.35%) DevOps
15 89 (16.60%) Mentoring
16 80 (14.93%) Roadmaps
17 79 (14.74%) Machine Learning
18 72 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 71 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
20 61 (11.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 249 (46.46%) SQL
2 203 (37.87%) Python
3 38 (7.09%) JavaScript
4 37 (6.90%) Java
5 34 (6.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.29%) T-SQL
7 22 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.73%) Scala
9 18 (3.36%) Apex Code
10 15 (2.80%) C#
10 15 (2.80%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.87%) Bicep
12 8 (1.49%) Bash
12 8 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.31%) C++
13 7 (1.31%) Go
14 5 (0.93%) R
15 4 (0.75%) PHP
15 4 (0.75%) SOQL
15 4 (0.75%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.87%) Degree
3 55 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.36%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.68%) CIPD
9 8 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.49%) SnowPro
10 6 (1.12%) ACCA
10 6 (1.12%) CIMA
10 6 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.37%) IIBA
14 1 (0.19%) CBAP
14 1 (0.19%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (35.82%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.28%) GDPR
3 23 (4.29%) QA
4 12 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.75%) PERC
6 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.56%) IFRS
6 3 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.56%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (4.85%) Docker
2 8 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (6.53%) Terraform
2 12 (2.24%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.75%) Ansible
4 3 (0.56%) Packer
5 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 137 (25.56%) Microsoft
2 99 (18.47%) Databricks
3 43 (8.02%) Oracle
3 43 (8.02%) Salesforce
4 37 (6.90%) SAP
5 15 (2.80%) Google
6 12 (2.24%) Informatica
6 12 (2.24%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.31%) Foundry
8 7 (1.31%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.12%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.75%) IBM
11 3 (0.56%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.56%) Epicor
11 3 (0.56%) IFS
11 3 (0.56%) Infor
11 3 (0.56%) Palantir
11 3 (0.56%) TOWER Software