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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 132 117
Rank change year-on-year +44 -15 -27
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 527 404 835
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.78% 2.78% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.93% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 366 225 624
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,338 £37,289
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.31% -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 15,706 13,805 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 94.87% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,181 8,074 23,429
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 May 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 39 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.74%) Apache
2 25 (4.74%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.14%) SAS
6 4 (0.76%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
Applications
1 27 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) Blender
4 1 (0.19%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 9 (1.71%) NetSuite
3 8 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.76%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 255 (48.39%) Azure
2 141 (26.76%) Power Platform
3 128 (24.29%) AWS
4 87 (16.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 62 (11.76%) GCP
6 56 (10.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 52 (9.87%) Snowflake
8 50 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (7.97%) GitHub
10 41 (7.78%) dbt
11 40 (7.59%) Serverless
12 32 (6.07%) Amazon S3
13 22 (4.17%) SaaS
13 22 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (3.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 16 (3.04%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.66%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (2.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.83%) Broadband
2 3 (0.57%) 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
1 125 (23.72%) Power BI
2 83 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (15.75%) Metadata
3 63 (11.95%) Data Lake
4 47 (8.92%) Tableau
5 43 (8.16%) Relational Database
6 41 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (7.02%) SQL Server
8 29 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 25 (4.74%) BigQuery
10 24 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (4.17%) MySQL
11 22 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (3.98%) Semantic Layer
13 19 (3.61%) NoSQL
14 18 (3.42%) Delta Lake
14 18 (3.42%) SAP BW
15 16 (3.04%) Big Data
15 16 (3.04%) MongoDB
16 15 (2.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 45 (8.54%) Git
2 13 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.09%) JIRA
4 4 (0.76%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.76%) ERwin
4 4 (0.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.38%) MLflow
6 1 (0.19%) Ant
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
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
1 192 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 153 (29.03%) Finance
3 139 (26.38%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (14.23%) Public Sector
5 60 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.83%) Law
7 30 (5.69%) Marketing
8 26 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (4.55%) Retail
10 13 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.90%) Banking
11 10 (1.90%) Legal
11 10 (1.90%) Publishing
12 7 (1.33%) Games
13 6 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.76%) Local Government
15 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.57%) Back Office
16 3 (0.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 149 (28.27%) Data Engineer
2 110 (20.87%) Architect
3 105 (19.92%) Senior
4 71 (13.47%) Lead
5 66 (12.52%) Developer
6 65 (12.33%) Analyst
7 63 (11.95%) Data Architect
8 42 (7.97%) Data Analyst
8 42 (7.97%) Senior Data Engineer
9 25 (4.74%) Lead Data Engineer
10 24 (4.55%) Senior Architect
11 22 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.42%) Consultant
13 17 (3.23%) Senior Data Architect
14 16 (3.04%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 15 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.85%) Salesforce Developer
16 13 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.25%) REST
2 42 (7.97%) PySpark
3 37 (7.02%) Kafka
4 32 (6.07%) Node.js
5 30 (5.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 30 (5.69%) SOAP
6 19 (3.61%) .NET
6 19 (3.61%) React
7 18 (3.42%) JSON
8 17 (3.23%) Middleware
9 16 (3.04%) CSS
10 14 (2.66%) Visualforce
11 12 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (2.28%) XML
12 9 (1.71%) HTML
13 8 (1.52%) Tailwind CSS
14 6 (1.14%) RESTful
14 6 (1.14%) Spring
15 5 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
15 5 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.87%) Data Structures
2 47 (8.92%) Cloud Native
3 34 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.98%) Social Media
5 17 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.09%) FMCG
9 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.71%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.52%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.33%) Blog
12 7 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.14%) Anti-Piracy
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.95%) Windows
2 3 (0.57%) Android
3 2 (0.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (45.16%) Analytics
2 164 (31.12%) Business Intelligence
3 160 (30.36%) Data Engineering
4 157 (29.79%) ETL
5 156 (29.60%) Agile
6 150 (28.46%) CI/CD
7 143 (27.13%) Data Architecture
7 143 (27.13%) Data Pipeline
8 132 (25.05%) DevOps
9 125 (23.72%) AI
9 125 (23.72%) Data Governance
10 113 (21.44%) Decision-Making
10 113 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
11 89 (16.89%) Data Strategy
12 88 (16.70%) Mentoring
13 67 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (12.71%) Machine Learning
14 64 (12.14%) Visualisation
15 59 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 58 (11.01%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 252 (47.82%) SQL
2 224 (42.50%) Python
3 48 (9.11%) Java
4 44 (8.35%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.69%) TypeScript
6 29 (5.50%) Apex Code
7 26 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (4.74%) Scala
9 23 (4.36%) C#
9 23 (4.36%) PowerShell
10 22 (4.17%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.09%) Bash
12 7 (1.33%) Go
13 6 (1.14%) C++
14 5 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.95%) R
15 4 (0.76%) Bicep
15 4 (0.76%) PHP
15 4 (0.76%) SOQL
15 4 (0.76%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 77 (14.61%) Degree
2 72 (13.66%) Security Cleared
3 57 (10.82%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.90%) ACCA
8 10 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.90%) CIMA
9 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.38%) IIBA
12 1 (0.19%) CBAP
12 1 (0.19%) GIAC
12 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (31.50%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.45%) GDPR
3 21 (3.98%) QA
4 13 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.57%) IFRS
5 3 (0.57%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.57%) PERC
5 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) HL7
6 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (4.36%) Docker
2 12 (2.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (7.40%) Terraform
2 9 (1.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Ansible
3 3 (0.57%) Control-M
3 3 (0.57%) Packer
4 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 126 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 108 (20.49%) Databricks
3 52 (9.87%) Salesforce
4 34 (6.45%) Oracle
4 34 (6.45%) SAP
5 13 (2.47%) MuleSoft
6 12 (2.28%) Google
7 11 (2.09%) IBM
8 10 (1.90%) Informatica
9 7 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.14%) Foundry
10 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.95%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.76%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.76%) Palantir
12 4 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.57%) BMC
13 3 (0.57%) Sparx
13 3 (0.57%) Talend
14 2 (0.38%) iManage