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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 114 103
Rank change year-on-year +38 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 549 428 849
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.26% 3.09% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.25% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 348 211 632
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -1.05%

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 14,330 13,188 27,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.21% 95.33% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,436 8,773 22,841
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,281 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%

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 14 March 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 42 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.37%) Apache
3 18 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.82%) Confluence
5 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.46%) SAS
6 7 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.09%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) Mendix
8 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
Applications
1 31 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.09%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.55%) Sketch
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Notion
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.82%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.09%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 330 (60.11%) Azure
2 126 (22.95%) AWS
3 115 (20.95%) Power Platform
4 114 (20.77%) Snowflake
5 104 (18.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 89 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (13.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 70 (12.75%) GCP
9 67 (12.20%) GitHub
10 61 (11.11%) dbt
11 47 (8.56%) Serverless
12 42 (7.65%) GitHub Copilot
13 38 (6.92%) SaaS
14 32 (5.83%) Amazon S3
15 30 (5.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 29 (5.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 18 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
19 13 (2.37%) Power Automate
19 13 (2.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.82%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) ADSL
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
2 1 (0.18%) NGN
2 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (30.42%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (19.31%) Power BI
3 80 (14.57%) Metadata
4 70 (12.75%) Data Lake
5 47 (8.56%) SQL Server
6 45 (8.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 39 (7.10%) Tableau
8 30 (5.46%) MySQL
8 30 (5.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 26 (4.74%) BigQuery
10 25 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
10 25 (4.55%) Relational Database
11 24 (4.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (3.83%) NoSQL
13 20 (3.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 17 (3.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 17 (3.10%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (2.73%) Delta Lake
16 13 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (2.37%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 41 (7.47%) Git
2 29 (5.28%) JIRA
3 13 (2.37%) ERwin
4 11 (2.00%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.91%) git-flow
6 4 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 197 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 196 (35.70%) Finance
3 141 (25.68%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.19%) Marketing
7 30 (5.46%) Law
8 22 (4.01%) Retail
9 21 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.00%) Publishing
12 9 (1.64%) Banking
12 9 (1.64%) Legal
13 7 (1.28%) Advertising
14 6 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.91%) Back Office
15 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (26.41%) Architect
2 121 (22.04%) Senior
3 120 (21.86%) Data Engineer
4 99 (18.03%) Data Architect
5 72 (13.11%) Developer
6 54 (9.84%) Lead
7 53 (9.65%) Analyst
8 46 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 33 (6.01%) Data Analyst
10 22 (4.01%) Lead Data Engineer
11 20 (3.64%) Salesforce Developer
11 20 (3.64%) Senior Architect
12 19 (3.46%) Consultant
13 17 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (2.91%) Senior Data Architect
15 15 (2.73%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.38%) REST
2 44 (8.01%) SOAP
3 43 (7.83%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (5.83%) .NET
4 32 (5.83%) Kafka
5 25 (4.55%) PySpark
6 24 (4.37%) Middleware
7 19 (3.46%) Visualforce
8 17 (3.10%) React
9 16 (2.91%) JSON
10 15 (2.73%) CSS
11 14 (2.55%) HTML
12 12 (2.19%) XML
13 10 (1.82%) Node.js
14 8 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (1.46%) YAML
15 6 (1.09%) RESTful
15 6 (1.09%) Vue
16 5 (0.91%) gRPC
16 5 (0.91%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 50 (9.11%) Cloud Native
3 38 (6.92%) Data Structures
4 24 (4.37%) Management Information System
5 22 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.82%) FMCG
11 9 (1.64%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.46%) Reference Data
13 7 (1.28%) Social Media
14 6 (1.09%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.09%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
16 4 (0.73%) Data Fabric
16 4 (0.73%) Mobile App
17 3 (0.55%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.28%) Android
2 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (44.08%) Analytics
2 203 (36.98%) Agile
3 183 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 170 (30.97%) ETL
5 167 (30.42%) DevOps
6 163 (29.69%) CI/CD
7 153 (27.87%) Data Architecture
8 139 (25.32%) Business Intelligence
9 129 (23.50%) AI
10 127 (23.13%) Data Governance
11 126 (22.95%) Data Pipeline
12 119 (21.68%) Mentoring
13 116 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (18.40%) Data Integration
15 96 (17.49%) Coaching
16 95 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
17 94 (17.12%) Decision-Making
18 83 (15.12%) Data Management
19 76 (13.84%) Asset Management
20 67 (12.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 234 (42.62%) SQL
2 210 (38.25%) Python
3 58 (10.56%) JavaScript
4 55 (10.02%) Java
5 43 (7.83%) Apex Code
6 42 (7.65%) C#
7 35 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 26 (4.74%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 25 (4.55%) Scala
10 21 (3.83%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.00%) Bash
12 7 (1.28%) PHP
13 6 (1.09%) C++
13 6 (1.09%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.09%) R
14 4 (0.73%) Go
15 3 (0.55%) Bicep
15 3 (0.55%) Swift
16 2 (0.36%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 98 (17.85%) Degree
2 58 (10.56%) Security Cleared
3 53 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (9.65%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.65%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.74%) TOGAF Certification
6 23 (4.19%) AWS Certification
7 22 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.19%) ACCA
9 12 (2.19%) CIMA
9 12 (2.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.36%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (21.68%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.20%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.46%) GDPR
4 18 (3.28%) QA
5 13 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.18%) P3O
7 1 (0.18%) PERC
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (6.19%) Terraform
2 5 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 152 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 105 (19.13%) Databricks
3 60 (10.93%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.37%) Google
5 18 (3.28%) MuleSoft
6 15 (2.73%) IBM
6 15 (2.73%) Informatica
7 14 (2.55%) SAP
8 12 (2.19%) Oracle
9 9 (1.64%) Talend
10 5 (0.91%) Foundry
11 4 (0.73%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.73%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.55%) BMC
12 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.55%) Palantir
12 3 (0.55%) Sparx
13 2 (0.36%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.36%) Zend