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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 130 130
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 529 433 779
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.54% 2.68% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 2.86% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 382 260 571
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,506 £55,563 £49,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +1.15% -
75th Percentile £86,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £69,973 £65,000 £67,900
% change year-on-year +7.65% -4.27% +0.59%

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 17,173 15,146 29,476
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.44% 93.69% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,544 8,967 22,622
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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 4 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 (5.67%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.16%) Apache
4 13 (2.46%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.13%) 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 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.32%) 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 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.13%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 220 (41.59%) Azure
2 158 (29.87%) Power Platform
3 116 (21.93%) AWS
4 72 (13.61%) GCP
5 65 (12.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 38 (7.18%) Snowflake
8 31 (5.86%) SaaS
8 31 (5.86%) Serverless
9 26 (4.91%) dbt
10 24 (4.54%) Amazon S3
11 21 (3.97%) GitHub
12 19 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (3.21%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 14 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (2.65%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (2.46%) PowerApps
16 12 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.32%) 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
1 142 (26.84%) Power BI
2 92 (17.39%) Metadata
3 80 (15.12%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (10.02%) Data Lake
5 48 (9.07%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (8.32%) Relational Database
6 44 (8.32%) SQL Server
7 41 (7.75%) Tableau
8 33 (6.24%) Semantic Layer
9 30 (5.67%) BigQuery
10 29 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 21 (3.97%) MySQL
12 20 (3.78%) Big Data
13 19 (3.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 18 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (3.40%) MongoDB
15 17 (3.21%) Delta Lake
15 17 (3.21%) SAP BW
15 17 (3.21%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (6.81%) Git
2 19 (3.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.32%) JIRA
4 6 (1.13%) 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 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 141 (26.65%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (24.20%) Finance
4 81 (15.31%) Public Sector
5 74 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.18%) Law
7 26 (4.91%) Retail
8 25 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (3.97%) Marketing
10 12 (2.27%) Banking
10 12 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.89%) Legal
13 7 (1.32%) Games
14 6 (1.13%) Publishing
15 5 (0.95%) Local Government
15 5 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.76%) Billing
16 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 146 (27.60%) Data Engineer
2 125 (23.63%) Architect
3 108 (20.42%) Senior
4 86 (16.26%) Data Architect
5 71 (13.42%) Lead
6 70 (13.23%) Analyst
7 65 (12.29%) Developer
8 42 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.18%) Data Analyst
10 33 (6.24%) Senior Architect
11 26 (4.91%) Senior Data Architect
12 20 (3.78%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (3.59%) Business Analyst
13 19 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 18 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 15 (2.84%) Platform Engineer
17 14 (2.65%) Consultant
18 13 (2.46%) Software Engineer
18 13 (2.46%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (8.88%) REST
2 42 (7.94%) PySpark
3 39 (7.37%) Node.js
4 32 (6.05%) Kafka
5 19 (3.59%) JSON
5 19 (3.59%) Middleware
5 19 (3.59%) SOAP
6 18 (3.40%) Lightning Web Components
7 15 (2.84%) .NET
7 15 (2.84%) CSS
7 15 (2.84%) React
8 14 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (2.27%) Visualforce
9 12 (2.27%) XML
10 9 (1.70%) RESTful
11 8 (1.51%) HTML
11 8 (1.51%) Spring
11 8 (1.51%) Tailwind CSS
12 6 (1.13%) LangChain
12 6 (1.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 53 (10.02%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.16%) Social Media
5 19 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.89%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.70%) Blog
11 8 (1.51%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.51%) FMCG
12 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.32%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.13%) 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 (44.80%) Analytics
2 182 (34.40%) Business Intelligence
3 165 (31.19%) Data Architecture
4 160 (30.25%) Data Engineering
5 151 (28.54%) Decision-Making
6 145 (27.41%) AI
7 139 (26.28%) Agile
8 136 (25.71%) CI/CD
9 129 (24.39%) ETL
10 128 (24.20%) Data Pipeline
11 125 (23.63%) Data Governance
12 123 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
13 119 (22.50%) Data Strategy
14 91 (17.20%) DevOps
15 88 (16.64%) Mentoring
16 80 (15.12%) Machine Learning
16 80 (15.12%) Roadmaps
17 71 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 69 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 60 (11.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 244 (46.12%) SQL
2 199 (37.62%) Python
3 38 (7.18%) JavaScript
4 36 (6.81%) Java
5 34 (6.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 23 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.78%) Scala
8 17 (3.21%) Apex Code
9 15 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.65%) C#
11 10 (1.89%) Bicep
12 8 (1.51%) Bash
13 7 (1.32%) C++
13 7 (1.32%) Go
13 7 (1.32%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.95%) R
15 4 (0.76%) PHP
15 4 (0.76%) SOQL
15 4 (0.76%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 70 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 69 (13.04%) Degree
3 54 (10.21%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.40%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.70%) CIPD
9 8 (1.51%) SnowPro
10 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.13%) ACCA
11 6 (1.13%) CIMA
11 6 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
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%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (35.92%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.37%) GDPR
3 23 (4.35%) QA
4 12 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.27%) 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%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (4.91%) Docker
2 8 (1.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (6.62%) Terraform
2 12 (2.27%) 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
1 133 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 100 (18.90%) Databricks
3 43 (8.13%) Oracle
4 42 (7.94%) Salesforce
5 37 (6.99%) SAP
6 15 (2.84%) Google
7 12 (2.27%) Informatica
7 12 (2.27%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.51%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.32%) Foundry
9 7 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.76%) IBM
12 3 (0.57%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.57%) Epicor
12 3 (0.57%) IFS
12 3 (0.57%) Infor
12 3 (0.57%) Palantir
12 3 (0.57%) TOWER Software