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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 112 93
Rank change year-on-year +21 -19 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 447 527 689
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.92% 2.80% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.07% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 270 256 482
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,069
25th Percentile £56,313 £53,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,188 £82,500 £84,875
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

All Process and 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 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 7 December 2025.

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 19 (4.25%) Apache
2 15 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.91%) Confluence
4 5 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.67%) CMS
5 3 (0.67%) SAS
6 2 (0.45%) Mendix
7 1 (0.22%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 30 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.45%) Sketch
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.22%) Notion
5 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.89%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 271 (60.63%) Azure
2 109 (24.38%) Snowflake
3 99 (22.15%) Power Platform
4 97 (21.70%) AWS
5 74 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (14.09%) GitHub
7 60 (13.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 50 (11.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 46 (10.29%) GCP
10 45 (10.07%) dbt
11 43 (9.62%) SaaS
12 42 (9.40%) GitHub Copilot
12 42 (9.40%) Serverless
13 26 (5.82%) Amazon S3
14 22 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 16 (3.58%) PowerApps
17 15 (3.36%) Power Automate
17 15 (3.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 13 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.45%) Broadband
2 1 (0.22%) ADSL
2 1 (0.22%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (40.94%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (20.81%) Power BI
3 74 (16.55%) Data Lake
4 42 (9.40%) Metadata
5 35 (7.83%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (7.16%) SQL Server
7 26 (5.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 25 (5.59%) Tableau
9 23 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (4.47%) Data Vault
11 19 (4.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (3.58%) MySQL
12 16 (3.58%) Relational Database
13 14 (3.13%) NoSQL
14 13 (2.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (2.91%) BigQuery
14 13 (2.91%) Data Mining
14 13 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (2.46%) Power Query
16 9 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (8.72%) JIRA
2 29 (6.49%) Git
3 17 (3.80%) ER Studio
4 16 (3.58%) ERwin
5 5 (1.12%) git-flow
6 4 (0.89%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 171 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 168 (37.58%) Finance
3 114 (25.50%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.59%) Law
6 25 (5.59%) Marketing
6 25 (5.59%) Retail
7 17 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.68%) Banking
9 10 (2.24%) Legal
10 9 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.79%) Advertising
12 6 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.12%) Back Office
13 5 (1.12%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.12%) Tech for Good
14 4 (0.89%) Billing
14 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (27.52%) Architect
2 94 (21.03%) Data Architect
3 93 (20.81%) Senior
4 86 (19.24%) Data Engineer
5 53 (11.86%) Developer
6 44 (9.84%) Analyst
7 33 (7.38%) Senior Data Engineer
8 32 (7.16%) Lead
9 17 (3.80%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.36%) Azure Architect
11 15 (3.36%) Azure Data Architect
11 15 (3.36%) Consultant
12 13 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (2.91%) Data Modeller
13 12 (2.68%) Business Manager
13 12 (2.68%) Data Analyst
13 12 (2.68%) Data Manager
13 12 (2.68%) Insight Manager
14 11 (2.46%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.28%) REST
2 28 (6.26%) SOAP
3 27 (6.04%) Lightning Web Components
4 20 (4.47%) .NET
5 17 (3.80%) JSON
5 17 (3.80%) Kafka
6 15 (3.36%) CSS
6 15 (3.36%) HTML
7 13 (2.91%) XML
8 11 (2.46%) Middleware
9 8 (1.79%) PySpark
9 8 (1.79%) React
9 8 (1.79%) Visualforce
10 7 (1.57%) AWS CDK
11 6 (1.34%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.34%) RESTful
11 6 (1.34%) YAML
12 5 (1.12%) Material-UI
13 4 (0.89%) ADO
13 4 (0.89%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.29%) Product Ownership
2 40 (8.95%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.03%) Data Structures
3 18 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.89%) Reinsurance
8 4 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.67%) FMCG
9 3 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.67%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.67%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.12%) Android
2 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
2 3 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (42.73%) Agile
2 189 (42.28%) Analytics
3 150 (33.56%) ETL
4 135 (30.20%) Data Engineering
5 134 (29.98%) DevOps
6 124 (27.74%) Data Architecture
7 123 (27.52%) CI/CD
8 119 (26.62%) Business Intelligence
9 117 (26.17%) AI
10 111 (24.83%) Mentoring
11 107 (23.94%) Data Integration
12 97 (21.70%) Data Governance
13 94 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
14 91 (20.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 91 (20.36%) Data Pipeline
15 84 (18.79%) Coaching
16 74 (16.55%) Data Management
17 66 (14.77%) Asset Management
17 66 (14.77%) Migration
18 64 (14.32%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 210 (46.98%) SQL
2 156 (34.90%) Python
3 38 (8.50%) Java
3 38 (8.50%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.05%) C#
5 34 (7.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 28 (6.26%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.04%) Apex Code
8 21 (4.70%) Scala
9 16 (3.58%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.01%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.79%) R
12 5 (1.12%) Bash
12 5 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.12%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.89%) Fortran
13 4 (0.89%) Go
13 4 (0.89%) PHP
14 3 (0.67%) Swift
15 2 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (14.54%) Degree
2 41 (9.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.04%) Azure Certification
3 27 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 26 (5.82%) AWS Certification
5 23 (5.15%) Security Cleared
6 22 (4.92%) SC Cleared
7 19 (4.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 18 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 8 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.57%) SnowPro
12 6 (1.34%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.89%) ACCA
13 4 (0.89%) CIMA
14 2 (0.45%) PhD
14 2 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.45%) PMP
15 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.65%) Data Quality
2 44 (9.84%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.36%) QA
4 13 (2.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 13 (2.91%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) P3O
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (5.37%) Terraform
2 4 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.22%) Ansible
3 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 132 (29.53%) Microsoft
2 85 (19.02%) Databricks
3 37 (8.28%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.70%) Google
5 13 (2.91%) Oracle
6 11 (2.46%) Informatica
7 8 (1.79%) IBM
7 8 (1.79%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.79%) Talend
8 7 (1.57%) SAP
9 4 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.89%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.67%) Sparx
11 2 (0.45%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.45%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.45%) Foundry
11 2 (0.45%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.45%) Palantir
11 2 (0.45%) Samsung