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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 145 127
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 574 356 585
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.31% 2.12% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.26% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 404 267 292
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,313 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +0.74% -

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 20,042 15,769 19,580
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.69% 93.82% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14,290 8,427 11,609
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
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 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%

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 5 October 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 24 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 20 (3.48%) Apache
3 19 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.35%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.05%) Notion
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.52%) Blender
4 3 (0.52%) Maya
5 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Finacle
6 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (40.24%) Azure
2 209 (36.41%) Power Platform
3 127 (22.13%) AWS
4 81 (14.11%) GCP
5 66 (11.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 62 (10.80%) Snowflake
7 54 (9.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (5.57%) dbt
10 30 (5.23%) GitHub
11 28 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (4.88%) Serverless
12 27 (4.70%) SaaS
13 25 (4.36%) Amazon S3
14 23 (4.01%) Azure Databricks
15 21 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (3.48%) PowerApps
17 16 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (2.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.05%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) 4G
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) ATM
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) NGN
3 1 (0.17%) SMS
3 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (35.02%) Power BI
2 135 (23.52%) Data Warehouse
3 121 (21.08%) Metadata
4 58 (10.10%) Data Lake
5 49 (8.54%) SQL Server
5 49 (8.54%) Tableau
6 43 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (7.32%) Relational Database
8 36 (6.27%) Semantic Layer
9 32 (5.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 32 (5.57%) Star Schema
10 30 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (5.05%) Delta Lake
11 29 (5.05%) NoSQL
12 27 (4.70%) BigQuery
13 24 (4.18%) MongoDB
14 21 (3.66%) Big Data
14 21 (3.66%) Data Vault
14 21 (3.66%) DynamoDB
15 19 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (13.24%) Git
2 26 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.44%) JIRA
4 10 (1.74%) GitLab
5 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.52%) ERwin
6 3 (0.52%) Flyway
6 3 (0.52%) MLflow
7 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Ant
8 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.17%) ESLint
8 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
8 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.17%) Storybook
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 207 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 163 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (24.74%) Finance
4 79 (13.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (12.37%) Public Sector
6 38 (6.62%) Law
7 35 (6.10%) Retail
8 28 (4.88%) Marketing
9 25 (4.36%) Legal
10 24 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (3.31%) Banking
12 17 (2.96%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.22%) Police
16 6 (1.05%) Billing
16 6 (1.05%) General Ledger
17 5 (0.87%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.87%) Military
18 4 (0.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 150 (26.13%) Data Engineer
2 139 (24.22%) Architect
3 128 (22.30%) Senior
4 102 (17.77%) Data Architect
5 73 (12.72%) Analyst
6 58 (10.10%) Lead
7 44 (7.67%) Developer
8 41 (7.14%) Data Analyst
9 39 (6.79%) Senior Data Engineer
10 31 (5.40%) Senior Architect
11 28 (4.88%) Senior Data Architect
12 22 (3.83%) Consultant
13 21 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (3.48%) Software Engineer
15 17 (2.96%) Business Analyst
16 15 (2.61%) Financial Analyst
17 13 (2.26%) Data Consultant
18 12 (2.09%) Data Modeller
18 12 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
18 12 (2.09%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.15%) PySpark
2 50 (8.71%) Terraform
3 39 (6.79%) Node.js
3 39 (6.79%) REST
4 25 (4.36%) Kafka
5 18 (3.14%) CSS
6 15 (2.61%) JSON
6 15 (2.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.61%) React
7 12 (2.09%) Middleware
7 12 (2.09%) Pandas
7 12 (2.09%) Tailwind CSS
8 10 (1.74%) RESTful
9 9 (1.57%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (1.57%) SOAP
10 8 (1.39%) Spring
11 7 (1.22%) .NET
11 7 (1.22%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.05%) Django
12 6 (1.05%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.85%) Cloud Native
2 46 (8.01%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.18%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.01%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.44%) Social Media
9 12 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.92%) Reference Data
10 11 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.39%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.39%) Blog
12 7 (1.22%) Clustering
12 7 (1.22%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (1.05%) Replication
13 6 (1.05%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.26%) Windows
2 4 (0.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (48.26%) Analytics
2 247 (43.03%) Business Intelligence
3 209 (36.41%) AI
4 187 (32.58%) Data Architecture
5 175 (30.49%) Decision-Making
6 168 (29.27%) Agile
6 168 (29.27%) CI/CD
7 158 (27.53%) Data Engineering
8 153 (26.66%) ETL
9 152 (26.48%) Data Pipeline
10 148 (25.78%) Data Governance
11 137 (23.87%) Data Strategy
12 128 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
13 109 (18.99%) DevOps
14 104 (18.12%) Mentoring
15 101 (17.60%) Roadmaps
16 97 (16.90%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 92 (16.03%) Machine Learning
19 81 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 314 (54.70%) SQL
2 240 (41.81%) Python
3 49 (8.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 31 (5.40%) C#
5 28 (4.88%) Java
6 27 (4.70%) JavaScript
7 25 (4.36%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.18%) Scala
9 20 (3.48%) Bicep
9 20 (3.48%) T-SQL
10 14 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.74%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.22%) R
13 5 (0.87%) Bash
13 5 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.70%) C++
14 4 (0.70%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.52%) Groovy
15 3 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (15.51%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.02%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.32%) Degree
4 29 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 25 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.96%) SnowPro
8 14 (2.44%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.57%) CIPD
11 8 (1.39%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.05%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.35%) PMP
16 1 (0.17%) CISSP
16 1 (0.17%) OCP
16 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (37.46%) Data Quality
2 56 (9.76%) GDPR
3 38 (6.62%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 14 (2.44%) QA
5 3 (0.52%) COPPA
5 3 (0.52%) IFRS
5 3 (0.52%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.52%) MiFID
5 3 (0.52%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.52%) UCITS
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) IASME
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.17%) PMO
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (6.45%) Docker
2 7 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.35%) NFS
3 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.87%) Ansible
3 3 (0.52%) Packer
3 3 (0.52%) SQL Sentry
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.17%) Consul
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 189 (32.93%) Microsoft
2 97 (16.90%) Databricks
3 40 (6.97%) Oracle
4 30 (5.23%) SAP
5 29 (5.05%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.14%) Informatica
7 14 (2.44%) Google
8 11 (1.92%) Talend
9 7 (1.22%) Foundry
9 7 (1.22%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.05%) Infor
10 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.87%) Palantir
11 5 (0.87%) RedGate
11 5 (0.87%) Workday
12 4 (0.70%) Braze
12 4 (0.70%) Epicor
12 4 (0.70%) IFS