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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 133 118
Rank change year-on-year +43 -15 -24
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 524 414 834
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.73% 2.83% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 2.98% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 370 232 621
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £37,199
25th Percentile £51,913 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -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 15,852 13,879 29,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 94.80% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,122 23,480
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,025 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 29 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 38 (7.25%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.77%) Apache
3 24 (4.58%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.15%) SAS
7 4 (0.76%) CMS
8 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.57%) Confluence
8 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Camunda
Applications
1 28 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Blender
3 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Maya
3 2 (0.38%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.53%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 243 (46.37%) Azure
2 140 (26.72%) Power Platform
3 126 (24.05%) AWS
4 84 (16.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 64 (12.21%) GCP
6 55 (10.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (8.59%) Snowflake
8 42 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (7.25%) Serverless
10 36 (6.87%) dbt
11 35 (6.68%) GitHub
12 31 (5.92%) Amazon S3
13 23 (4.39%) SaaS
14 20 (3.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (3.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 15 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (2.29%) Power Automate
19 12 (2.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.44%) 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
1 124 (23.66%) Power BI
2 81 (15.46%) Metadata
3 78 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
4 64 (12.21%) Data Lake
5 44 (8.40%) Tableau
6 42 (8.02%) Relational Database
7 41 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (7.06%) SQL Server
9 29 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (5.15%) BigQuery
11 25 (4.77%) Semantic Layer
12 22 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (4.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (4.01%) MySQL
14 19 (3.63%) NoSQL
15 18 (3.44%) Delta Lake
16 17 (3.24%) Big Data
16 17 (3.24%) MongoDB
16 17 (3.24%) SAP BW
17 15 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (8.21%) Git
2 16 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.72%) JIRA
4 4 (0.76%) GitLab
5 3 (0.57%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.38%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Ant
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Toad
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 189 (36.07%) Social Skills
2 147 (28.05%) Finance
3 139 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (14.69%) Public Sector
5 66 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (7.06%) Law
7 27 (5.15%) Marketing
8 26 (4.96%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (4.58%) Retail
10 13 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.10%) Banking
11 11 (2.10%) Legal
12 9 (1.72%) Publishing
13 7 (1.34%) Games
13 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.76%) Billing
15 4 (0.76%) Local Government
15 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 156 (29.77%) Data Engineer
2 113 (21.56%) Architect
3 103 (19.66%) Senior
4 71 (13.55%) Lead
5 67 (12.79%) Data Architect
6 64 (12.21%) Analyst
6 64 (12.21%) Developer
7 44 (8.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 40 (7.63%) Data Analyst
9 24 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (4.39%) Senior Architect
11 22 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.24%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.24%) Consultant
13 16 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (3.05%) Senior Data Architect
14 15 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 15 (2.86%) Salesforce Developer
15 14 (2.67%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.54%) REST
2 42 (8.02%) PySpark
3 36 (6.87%) Kafka
3 36 (6.87%) Node.js
4 26 (4.96%) Lightning Web Components
4 26 (4.96%) SOAP
5 19 (3.63%) .NET
5 19 (3.63%) JSON
6 18 (3.44%) Middleware
6 18 (3.44%) React
7 16 (3.05%) CSS
8 14 (2.67%) Visualforce
9 12 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (2.29%) XML
10 9 (1.72%) HTML
11 8 (1.53%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (1.15%) RESTful
12 6 (1.15%) Spring
13 5 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
14 4 (0.76%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.92%) Data Structures
2 46 (8.78%) Cloud Native
3 29 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.01%) Social Media
5 20 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.10%) FMCG
11 10 (1.91%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.91%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.72%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.53%) Blog
13 8 (1.53%) Data Fabric
14 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.76%) Windows
2 3 (0.57%) Android
3 2 (0.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (46.37%) Analytics
2 166 (31.68%) Data Engineering
3 163 (31.11%) Business Intelligence
4 152 (29.01%) Agile
4 152 (29.01%) ETL
5 147 (28.05%) Data Architecture
6 145 (27.67%) Data Pipeline
7 142 (27.10%) CI/CD
8 124 (23.66%) AI
8 124 (23.66%) DevOps
9 122 (23.28%) Data Governance
10 117 (22.33%) Decision-Making
11 115 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
12 95 (18.13%) Data Strategy
13 87 (16.60%) Mentoring
14 70 (13.36%) Machine Learning
15 63 (12.02%) Visualisation
16 60 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (10.88%) Validation
18 56 (10.69%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 250 (47.71%) SQL
2 225 (42.94%) Python
3 46 (8.78%) Java
4 44 (8.40%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.53%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (4.77%) Apex Code
7 25 (4.77%) Scala
8 21 (4.01%) C#
8 21 (4.01%) T-SQL
9 20 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.91%) Bash
11 7 (1.34%) Go
12 6 (1.15%) C++
13 5 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.95%) R
14 4 (0.76%) Bicep
14 4 (0.76%) PHP
14 4 (0.76%) SOQL
14 4 (0.76%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 75 (14.31%) Degree
2 74 (14.12%) Security Cleared
3 59 (11.26%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.44%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.72%) ACCA
8 9 (1.72%) CIMA
9 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.38%) IIBA
13 1 (0.19%) CBAP
13 1 (0.19%) GIAC
13 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (33.40%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.30%) GDPR
3 20 (3.82%) QA
4 13 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.48%) 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 (4.39%) Docker
2 11 (2.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (7.25%) Terraform
2 9 (1.72%) 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
1 125 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 107 (20.42%) Databricks
3 47 (8.97%) Salesforce
4 34 (6.49%) SAP
5 33 (6.30%) Oracle
6 13 (2.48%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.10%) Google
8 10 (1.91%) IBM
8 10 (1.91%) Informatica
9 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.15%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.95%) Foundry
12 4 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.57%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.57%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.57%) BMC
13 3 (0.57%) Palantir
13 3 (0.57%) Talend
13 3 (0.57%) TOWER Software