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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 153 125
Rank change year-on-year +37 -28 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 550 350 595
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.30% 2.16% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.32% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 395 263 321
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.72% -0.71% +4.47%

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 19,546 15,102 20,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.74% 93.04% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,050 8,683 12,951
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 12 September 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 23 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.82%) Apache
3 14 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (6.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Finacle
5 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 218 (39.64%) Azure
2 195 (35.45%) Power Platform
3 119 (21.64%) AWS
4 71 (12.91%) GCP
5 67 (12.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 50 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 48 (8.73%) Snowflake
8 32 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (5.27%) GitHub
10 28 (5.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 27 (4.91%) Serverless
12 24 (4.36%) SaaS
13 23 (4.18%) Amazon S3
13 23 (4.18%) Azure Databricks
13 23 (4.18%) dbt
14 20 (3.64%) PowerApps
15 19 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (2.55%) Power Automate
18 13 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.91%) Broadband
2 4 (0.73%) NGN
3 1 (0.18%) 4G
3 1 (0.18%) 5G
3 1 (0.18%) ATM
3 1 (0.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.18%) SMS
3 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (32.91%) Power BI
2 112 (20.36%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (18.73%) Metadata
4 59 (10.73%) Data Lake
5 50 (9.09%) Tableau
6 48 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
7 47 (8.55%) SQL Server
8 42 (7.64%) Relational Database
9 34 (6.18%) Semantic Layer
10 30 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 29 (5.27%) Delta Lake
12 28 (5.09%) MongoDB
12 28 (5.09%) Star Schema
13 26 (4.73%) NoSQL
14 25 (4.55%) BigQuery
15 23 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (4.18%) Big Data
16 20 (3.64%) Data Vault
17 19 (3.45%) DynamoDB
18 16 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 59 (10.73%) Git
2 26 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.82%) JIRA
4 7 (1.27%) GitLab
5 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.55%) MLflow
7 2 (0.36%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.36%) ERwin
8 1 (0.18%) Ant
8 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.18%) Mocha
8 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.18%) Toad
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 159 (28.91%) Analytical Skills
3 132 (24.00%) Finance
4 71 (12.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (12.18%) Public Sector
6 39 (7.09%) Law
7 33 (6.00%) Retail
8 23 (4.18%) Marketing
9 19 (3.45%) Banking
9 19 (3.45%) Legal
10 18 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (3.09%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.09%) Billing
14 6 (1.09%) Games
15 5 (0.91%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.91%) Military
16 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 139 (25.27%) Data Engineer
2 138 (25.09%) Architect
3 113 (20.55%) Senior
4 99 (18.00%) Data Architect
5 66 (12.00%) Analyst
6 54 (9.82%) Lead
7 45 (8.18%) Developer
8 33 (6.00%) Data Analyst
9 31 (5.64%) Senior Data Engineer
10 30 (5.45%) Senior Architect
11 27 (4.91%) Senior Data Architect
12 20 (3.64%) Consultant
12 20 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.45%) Software Engineer
14 17 (3.09%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.73%) Financial Analyst
16 14 (2.55%) Data Modeller
17 13 (2.36%) Data Consultant
18 12 (2.18%) Databricks Engineer
19 11 (2.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.09%) PySpark
2 47 (8.55%) Terraform
3 42 (7.64%) REST
4 39 (7.09%) Node.js
5 25 (4.55%) Kafka
6 18 (3.27%) CSS
7 16 (2.91%) React
8 15 (2.73%) JSON
8 15 (2.73%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
9 11 (2.00%) RESTful
9 11 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
10 9 (1.64%) Middleware
10 9 (1.64%) Pandas
10 9 (1.64%) SOAP
11 8 (1.45%) Spring
12 7 (1.27%) .NET
12 7 (1.27%) HTML
12 7 (1.27%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.09%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.82%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.09%) Social Media
6 13 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.00%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.82%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.82%) Blog
10 9 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.45%) Reference Data
11 8 (1.45%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
14 5 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.45%) Windows
2 2 (0.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (46.73%) Analytics
2 230 (41.82%) Business Intelligence
3 199 (36.18%) AI
4 182 (33.09%) Data Architecture
5 167 (30.36%) Decision-Making
6 153 (27.82%) Data Engineering
7 148 (26.91%) Agile
7 148 (26.91%) CI/CD
8 140 (25.45%) ETL
9 138 (25.09%) Data Strategy
10 137 (24.91%) Data Governance
10 137 (24.91%) Data Pipeline
11 132 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
12 97 (17.64%) Roadmaps
13 96 (17.45%) DevOps
14 95 (17.27%) Machine Learning
15 90 (16.36%) Mentoring
16 86 (15.64%) Technical Leadership
17 82 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 81 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 277 (50.36%) SQL
2 219 (39.82%) Python
3 42 (7.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 27 (4.91%) Java
4 27 (4.91%) JavaScript
5 25 (4.55%) C#
5 25 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 24 (4.36%) Scala
7 18 (3.27%) Bicep
7 18 (3.27%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.82%) Apex Code
8 10 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 9 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (1.27%) Go
11 6 (1.09%) R
12 5 (0.91%) Bash
13 4 (0.73%) C++
13 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 60 (10.91%) Degree
3 53 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.27%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.09%) SnowPro
7 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.64%) CIPD
10 7 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.09%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) GIAC
14 1 (0.18%) ICAEW
14 1 (0.18%) OCP
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (37.27%) Data Quality
2 48 (8.73%) GDPR
3 27 (4.91%) Accessibility
4 24 (4.36%) QA
5 12 (2.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.73%) PERC
6 4 (0.73%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
7 3 (0.55%) UCITS
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) COPPA
9 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 35 (6.36%) Docker
2 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.91%) Ansible
3 3 (0.55%) Packer
4 1 (0.18%) Consul
4 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 171 (31.09%) Microsoft
2 97 (17.64%) Databricks
3 44 (8.00%) Oracle
4 34 (6.18%) SAP
5 28 (5.09%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.91%) Informatica
7 10 (1.82%) Google
8 9 (1.64%) Talend
9 7 (1.27%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.91%) Infor
11 5 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.73%) Epicor
12 4 (0.73%) Foundry
12 4 (0.73%) IFS
12 4 (0.73%) Workday
13 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.55%) OpenText