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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 133 153
Rank change year-on-year +17 +20 -62
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 546 406 524
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.39% 2.45% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.63% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 384 262 352
10th Percentile £42,875 £46,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,958 £52,456
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -2.95% +3.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £96,575
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +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 18,835 15,419 21,621
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.48% 92.96% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 13,574 8,935 15,360
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 16 August 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 28 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.21%) Apache
2 23 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.10%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Finacle
5 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 209 (38.28%) Azure
2 175 (32.05%) Power Platform
3 115 (21.06%) AWS
4 70 (12.82%) GCP
5 63 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (8.24%) Snowflake
7 43 (7.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.13%) dbt
9 27 (4.95%) Serverless
10 26 (4.76%) GitHub
11 24 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 24 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 22 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (4.03%) SaaS
13 20 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.75%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 10 (1.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.06%) Broadband
2 4 (0.73%) NGN
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) ATM
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (29.49%) Power BI
2 100 (18.32%) Data Warehouse
3 94 (17.22%) Metadata
4 58 (10.62%) Data Lake
5 48 (8.79%) Relational Database
6 47 (8.61%) SQL Server
6 47 (8.61%) Tableau
7 45 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
8 34 (6.23%) Semantic Layer
9 30 (5.49%) BigQuery
9 30 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (4.58%) Delta Lake
11 24 (4.40%) MongoDB
12 23 (4.21%) Big Data
12 23 (4.21%) Star Schema
13 22 (4.03%) NoSQL
14 18 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (3.30%) Data Vault
15 16 (2.93%) DynamoDB
16 15 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 48 (8.79%) Git
2 24 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.65%) JIRA
4 7 (1.28%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.37%) ERwin
7 1 (0.18%) Ant
7 1 (0.18%) Mocha
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Toad
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 206 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 158 (28.94%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (25.27%) Finance
4 78 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (11.54%) Public Sector
6 45 (8.24%) Law
7 33 (6.04%) Retail
8 25 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (4.03%) Marketing
10 18 (3.30%) Banking
11 16 (2.93%) Legal
11 16 (2.93%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Games
13 7 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.92%) Billing
14 5 (0.92%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.92%) Military
15 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 151 (27.66%) Data Engineer
2 130 (23.81%) Architect
3 105 (19.23%) Senior
4 92 (16.85%) Data Architect
5 67 (12.27%) Analyst
6 54 (9.89%) Lead
7 51 (9.34%) Developer
8 36 (6.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (5.31%) Data Analyst
10 23 (4.21%) Business Analyst
10 23 (4.21%) Senior Architect
11 20 (3.66%) Senior Data Architect
11 20 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (3.11%) Consultant
13 15 (2.75%) Data Modeller
13 15 (2.75%) Software Engineer
14 14 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
14 14 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 12 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.44%) PySpark
2 42 (7.69%) REST
3 37 (6.78%) Node.js
4 31 (5.68%) Kafka
5 15 (2.75%) JSON
6 14 (2.56%) CSS
6 14 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (2.56%) React
7 12 (2.20%) Middleware
8 11 (2.01%) SOAP
9 10 (1.83%) .NET
10 9 (1.65%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (1.47%) RESTful
12 7 (1.28%) Spring
13 6 (1.10%) Django
13 6 (1.10%) LangChain
13 6 (1.10%) Pandas
13 6 (1.10%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.97%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.03%) Social Media
4 21 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.83%) Blog
8 10 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.83%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.65%) Taxonomies
10 8 (1.47%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.10%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.55%) Windows
2 2 (0.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (46.89%) Analytics
2 209 (38.28%) Business Intelligence
3 185 (33.88%) AI
4 169 (30.95%) Data Architecture
5 168 (30.77%) Data Engineering
6 163 (29.85%) Decision-Making
7 145 (26.56%) Data Pipeline
8 138 (25.27%) Agile
9 135 (24.73%) Data Strategy
9 135 (24.73%) ETL
10 131 (23.99%) Data Governance
10 131 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
11 130 (23.81%) CI/CD
12 94 (17.22%) Machine Learning
13 87 (15.93%) Roadmaps
14 81 (14.84%) DevOps
15 78 (14.29%) Mentoring
15 78 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 75 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 71 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 267 (48.90%) SQL
2 222 (40.66%) Python
3 36 (6.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.23%) Java
5 27 (4.95%) Scala
6 26 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.03%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.66%) C#
9 18 (3.30%) T-SQL
10 17 (3.11%) Bicep
11 13 (2.38%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.65%) C++
12 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.47%) R
14 7 (1.28%) Go
14 7 (1.28%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.92%) Bash
16 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.55%) SHACL
17 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.36%) Degree
3 55 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.75%) SnowPro
8 14 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.65%) CIPD
10 9 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.92%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.37%) IIBA
16 1 (0.18%) CBAP
16 1 (0.18%) GIAC
16 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (36.26%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.24%) GDPR
3 23 (4.21%) QA
4 19 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.28%) 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 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) PMO
9 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (6.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (8.06%) Terraform
2 15 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 3 (0.55%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 155 (28.39%) Microsoft
2 100 (18.32%) Databricks
3 46 (8.42%) Oracle
4 38 (6.96%) SAP
5 34 (6.23%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.83%) Google
7 9 (1.65%) Informatica
8 8 (1.47%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.28%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.92%) Foundry
11 5 (0.92%) Infor
11 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.73%) Epicor
12 4 (0.73%) IBM
12 4 (0.73%) IFS
13 3 (0.55%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.55%) TOWER Software