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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 127 114
Rank change year-on-year +42 -13 -21
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 513 416 856
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.77% 2.84% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.99% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 350 235 635
10th Percentile £43,625 £47,338 £37,900
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £69,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.15% - -2.99%

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 15,340 13,907 29,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 95.05% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,890 8,636 23,352
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 15 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 37 (7.21%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.87%) Apache Spark
3 24 (4.68%) Apache
4 10 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.17%) SAS
7 5 (0.97%) CMS
8 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.58%) Confluence
8 3 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Camunda
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.39%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (1.95%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.78%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 258 (50.29%) Azure
2 136 (26.51%) Power Platform
3 116 (22.61%) AWS
4 88 (17.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 60 (11.70%) Snowflake
6 59 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 57 (11.11%) GCP
8 45 (8.77%) dbt
9 42 (8.19%) GitHub
10 39 (7.60%) Serverless
11 29 (5.65%) Amazon S3
12 24 (4.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 22 (4.29%) SaaS
14 21 (4.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 20 (3.90%) GitHub Copilot
16 18 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
18 13 (2.53%) Power Automate
18 13 (2.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.24%) Broadband
2 3 (0.58%) NGN
3 1 (0.19%) 4G
3 1 (0.19%) 5G
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (23.59%) Power BI
2 88 (17.15%) Data Warehouse
3 80 (15.59%) Metadata
4 63 (12.28%) Data Lake
5 47 (9.16%) Tableau
6 39 (7.60%) Relational Database
7 36 (7.02%) SQL Server
8 34 (6.63%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (4.09%) BigQuery
11 21 (4.09%) MySQL
11 21 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (3.51%) Delta Lake
12 18 (3.51%) SAP BW
13 15 (2.92%) NoSQL
14 14 (2.73%) Semantic Layer
14 14 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
16 12 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 44 (8.58%) Git
2 14 (2.73%) JIRA
3 10 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.78%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.78%) ERwin
5 2 (0.39%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) MLflow
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
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
1 181 (35.28%) Social Skills
2 160 (31.19%) Finance
3 132 (25.73%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (13.84%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (7.02%) Law
7 31 (6.04%) Marketing
8 26 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (4.68%) Retail
10 13 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (2.14%) Banking
11 11 (2.14%) Publishing
12 8 (1.56%) Legal
13 7 (1.36%) Games
14 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.78%) Back Office
16 3 (0.58%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.58%) Local Government
16 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 144 (28.07%) Data Engineer
2 109 (21.25%) Architect
3 102 (19.88%) Senior
4 68 (13.26%) Lead
5 64 (12.48%) Analyst
6 63 (12.28%) Data Architect
6 63 (12.28%) Developer
7 41 (7.99%) Data Analyst
7 41 (7.99%) Senior Data Engineer
8 25 (4.87%) Lead Data Engineer
9 22 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
9 22 (4.29%) Senior Architect
10 18 (3.51%) Consultant
11 16 (3.12%) Salesforce Developer
12 15 (2.92%) Business Analyst
12 15 (2.92%) Senior Data Architect
13 14 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 14 (2.73%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 13 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.94%) REST
2 41 (7.99%) PySpark
3 36 (7.02%) Kafka
4 33 (6.43%) Lightning Web Components
5 32 (6.24%) SOAP
6 21 (4.09%) Node.js
7 20 (3.90%) .NET
8 19 (3.70%) Middleware
9 17 (3.31%) JSON
10 15 (2.92%) React
10 15 (2.92%) Visualforce
11 12 (2.34%) CSS
11 12 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (2.34%) XML
12 9 (1.75%) HTML
13 6 (1.17%) YAML
14 5 (0.97%) RESTful
14 5 (0.97%) Spring
15 4 (0.78%) HTML5 Canvas
15 4 (0.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.36%) Data Structures
2 41 (7.99%) Cloud Native
3 35 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.09%) Social Media
5 20 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.34%) FMCG
9 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.75%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.36%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.36%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.17%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.17%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.97%) Windows
2 3 (0.58%) Android
3 2 (0.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (45.22%) Analytics
2 160 (31.19%) Business Intelligence
3 159 (30.99%) Data Engineering
4 157 (30.60%) ETL
5 151 (29.43%) Agile
6 144 (28.07%) CI/CD
7 142 (27.68%) Data Architecture
8 141 (27.49%) Data Pipeline
9 135 (26.32%) DevOps
10 120 (23.39%) Data Governance
11 109 (21.25%) AI
12 105 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (19.69%) Decision-Making
14 84 (16.37%) Mentoring
15 80 (15.59%) Data Strategy
16 66 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (12.48%) Visualisation
18 63 (12.28%) Data Integration
19 62 (12.09%) Coaching
20 60 (11.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 241 (46.98%) SQL
2 217 (42.30%) Python
3 46 (8.97%) Java
4 41 (7.99%) JavaScript
5 32 (6.24%) Apex Code
6 26 (5.07%) Scala
7 24 (4.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (4.68%) PowerShell
7 24 (4.68%) TypeScript
8 23 (4.48%) C#
9 22 (4.29%) T-SQL
10 10 (1.95%) Bash
11 7 (1.36%) Go
12 6 (1.17%) C++
13 5 (0.97%) Bicep
13 5 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.97%) PHP
13 5 (0.97%) R
14 4 (0.78%) SOQL
14 4 (0.78%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 77 (15.01%) Degree
2 66 (12.87%) Security Cleared
3 52 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 31 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.14%) ACCA
8 11 (2.14%) CIMA
9 10 (1.95%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
13 1 (0.19%) CBAP
13 1 (0.19%) GIAC
13 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.04%) GDPR
3 20 (3.90%) QA
4 17 (3.31%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.58%) IFRS
6 3 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.58%) PERC
6 3 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 17 (3.31%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (7.21%) Terraform
2 8 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Ansible
3 3 (0.58%) Control-M
3 3 (0.58%) Packer
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 128 (24.95%) Microsoft
2 108 (21.05%) Databricks
3 54 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 32 (6.24%) Oracle
4 32 (6.24%) SAP
5 14 (2.73%) MuleSoft
6 12 (2.34%) Google
7 11 (2.14%) IBM
8 9 (1.75%) Informatica
9 7 (1.36%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.17%) Foundry
11 5 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.78%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.78%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.78%) Palantir
12 4 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) Talend
13 3 (0.58%) BMC
13 3 (0.58%) Sparx
14 2 (0.39%) iManage