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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 118 92
Rank change year-on-year +38 -26 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 524 475 866
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.31% 2.93% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.10% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 325 222 637
10th Percentile £46,162 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,899 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £64,750 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% +1.57% -1.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,700 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £64,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.55% -0.38% -

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 13,710 15,305 24,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.71% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,709 9,023 20,101
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

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 31 January 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 33 (6.30%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.58%) Apache
3 15 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.67%) Confluence
5 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.95%) CMS
7 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.76%) SAS
8 2 (0.38%) Mendix
9 1 (0.19%) Camunda
9 1 (0.19%) Luigi
9 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.57%) Sketch
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Notion
5 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (1.91%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.15%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 329 (62.79%) Azure
2 122 (23.28%) AWS
3 121 (23.09%) Snowflake
4 114 (21.76%) Power Platform
5 96 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (18.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 74 (14.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 73 (13.93%) GitHub
9 62 (11.83%) GCP
10 60 (11.45%) dbt
11 48 (9.16%) GitHub Copilot
12 46 (8.78%) Serverless
13 44 (8.40%) SaaS
14 31 (5.92%) Amazon S3
15 26 (4.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 24 (4.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 16 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (2.86%) Power Automate
18 15 (2.86%) PowerApps
19 14 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) Broadband
2 1 (0.19%) ADSL
2 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (33.97%) Data Warehouse
2 104 (19.85%) Power BI
3 80 (15.27%) Data Lake
4 68 (12.98%) Metadata
5 44 (8.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 38 (7.25%) Tableau
7 36 (6.87%) SQL Server
8 26 (4.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 25 (4.77%) MySQL
10 23 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (4.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (3.82%) NoSQL
13 18 (3.44%) Relational Database
14 17 (3.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (3.05%) BigQuery
15 16 (3.05%) Data Mining
15 16 (3.05%) Data Vault
15 16 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
16 14 (2.67%) Delta Lake
17 13 (2.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 40 (7.63%) Git
2 38 (7.25%) JIRA
3 18 (3.44%) ERwin
4 17 (3.24%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.95%) git-flow
5 5 (0.95%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 199 (37.98%) Finance
2 189 (36.07%) Social Skills
3 134 (25.57%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.92%) Marketing
7 27 (5.15%) Retail
8 22 (4.20%) Law
9 12 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.91%) Banking
10 10 (1.91%) Publishing
11 9 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.72%) Legal
12 8 (1.53%) Advertising
13 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.95%) Back Office
14 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.95%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (27.48%) Architect
2 118 (22.52%) Senior
3 111 (21.18%) Data Engineer
4 102 (19.47%) Data Architect
5 63 (12.02%) Developer
6 44 (8.40%) Analyst
6 44 (8.40%) Lead
7 39 (7.44%) Senior Data Engineer
8 23 (4.39%) Data Analyst
9 21 (4.01%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (3.44%) Senior Architect
10 18 (3.44%) Senior Data Architect
11 17 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (3.24%) Consultant
12 16 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.67%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.67%) Data Modeller
13 14 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (2.67%) Salesforce Developer
14 13 (2.48%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.54%) REST
2 40 (7.63%) SOAP
3 36 (6.87%) Lightning Web Components
4 29 (5.53%) Kafka
5 27 (5.15%) .NET
6 23 (4.39%) PySpark
7 19 (3.63%) Middleware
8 16 (3.05%) JSON
9 15 (2.86%) CSS
10 14 (2.67%) HTML
10 14 (2.67%) React
10 14 (2.67%) Visualforce
11 13 (2.48%) XML
12 8 (1.53%) Node.js
12 8 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.53%) YAML
13 6 (1.15%) AWS CDK
14 5 (0.95%) gRPC
14 5 (0.95%) Material-UI
15 4 (0.76%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.73%) Product Ownership
3 26 (4.96%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.77%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.39%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.72%) FMCG
10 9 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.53%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.34%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.95%) Reinsurance
14 5 (0.95%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.57%) e-Learning
15 3 (0.57%) Mobile App
15 3 (0.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.34%) Android
2 4 (0.76%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (42.56%) Analytics
2 213 (40.65%) Agile
3 176 (33.59%) DevOps
4 175 (33.40%) ETL
5 172 (32.82%) Data Engineering
6 164 (31.30%) CI/CD
7 151 (28.82%) Data Architecture
8 133 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
9 132 (25.19%) Data Governance
10 131 (25.00%) Mentoring
11 129 (24.62%) AI
12 119 (22.71%) Data Pipeline
13 112 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
14 110 (20.99%) Coaching
15 106 (20.23%) Data Integration
16 97 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 83 (15.84%) Data Management
18 80 (15.27%) Asset Management
19 77 (14.69%) Decision-Making
20 75 (14.31%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 240 (45.80%) SQL
2 205 (39.12%) Python
3 53 (10.11%) JavaScript
4 51 (9.73%) Java
5 46 (8.78%) C#
6 38 (7.25%) TypeScript
7 37 (7.06%) Apex Code
8 28 (5.34%) Scala
9 25 (4.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 25 (4.77%) PowerShell
10 17 (3.24%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.10%) Bash
12 9 (1.72%) R
13 6 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.15%) PHP
14 3 (0.57%) Swift
15 2 (0.38%) Go
15 2 (0.38%) SOQL
15 2 (0.38%) SOSL
15 2 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (16.41%) Degree
2 53 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (8.02%) Security Cleared
4 39 (7.44%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.30%) Azure Certification
6 27 (5.15%) AWS Certification
6 27 (5.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (4.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 10 (1.91%) ACCA
10 10 (1.91%) CIMA
11 8 (1.53%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.95%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.76%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.19%) PMP
15 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (18.70%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.59%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.67%) GDPR
4 13 (2.48%) Actionable Recommendations
4 13 (2.48%) QA
5 8 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.19%) P3O
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (1.72%) Docker
2 8 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (6.49%) Terraform
2 6 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Control-M
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 149 (28.44%) Microsoft
2 105 (20.04%) Databricks
3 51 (9.73%) Salesforce
4 25 (4.77%) Google
5 14 (2.67%) Informatica
6 12 (2.29%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.10%) IBM
8 9 (1.72%) SAP
8 9 (1.72%) Talend
9 8 (1.53%) Oracle
10 4 (0.76%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.57%) BMC
11 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.57%) Sparx
12 2 (0.38%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.38%) iManage
12 2 (0.38%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.38%) Zend