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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 146 128
Rank change year-on-year +33 -18 -35
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 582 361 589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.33% 2.14% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.28% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 413 270 299
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,724 £67,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,250 £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 20,176 15,827 19,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.92% 93.82% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 14,403 8,473 11,816
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £100,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%

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 2 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 25 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.61%) Apache
3 18 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.20%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.34%) Confluence
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.34%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.69%) Notion
3 3 (0.52%) Blender
3 3 (0.52%) Maya
4 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.34%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.34%) 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
1 234 (40.21%) Azure
2 215 (36.94%) Power Platform
3 126 (21.65%) AWS
4 81 (13.92%) GCP
5 69 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 60 (10.31%) Snowflake
7 55 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (5.15%) dbt
9 30 (5.15%) GitHub
10 28 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 28 (4.81%) Serverless
11 26 (4.47%) SaaS
12 25 (4.30%) Amazon S3
13 24 (4.12%) Azure Databricks
14 21 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (3.44%) PowerApps
16 16 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (2.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.98%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) 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
1 204 (35.05%) Power BI
2 136 (23.37%) Data Warehouse
3 120 (20.62%) Metadata
4 59 (10.14%) Data Lake
5 49 (8.42%) SQL Server
5 49 (8.42%) Tableau
6 45 (7.73%) Relational Database
7 43 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (6.53%) Semantic Layer
9 33 (5.67%) Star Schema
10 32 (5.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (4.98%) Delta Lake
12 29 (4.98%) NoSQL
13 28 (4.81%) BigQuery
14 24 (4.12%) MongoDB
15 22 (3.78%) Big Data
16 21 (3.61%) Data Vault
16 21 (3.61%) DynamoDB
17 19 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 75 (12.89%) Git
2 26 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.23%) JIRA
4 10 (1.72%) GitLab
5 4 (0.69%) 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 (0.34%) 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
1 210 (36.08%) Social Skills
2 167 (28.69%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (24.40%) Finance
4 77 (13.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (12.37%) Public Sector
6 38 (6.53%) Law
7 34 (5.84%) Retail
8 27 (4.64%) Marketing
9 24 (4.12%) Legal
10 23 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (3.26%) Banking
12 17 (2.92%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.20%) Police
16 6 (1.03%) Billing
16 6 (1.03%) General Ledger
17 5 (0.86%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.86%) Military
18 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 155 (26.63%) Data Engineer
2 138 (23.71%) Architect
3 127 (21.82%) Senior
4 101 (17.35%) Data Architect
5 74 (12.71%) Analyst
6 59 (10.14%) Lead
7 47 (8.08%) Developer
8 41 (7.04%) Data Analyst
9 39 (6.70%) Senior Data Engineer
10 31 (5.33%) Senior Architect
11 28 (4.81%) Senior Data Architect
12 22 (3.78%) Consultant
13 21 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (3.44%) Software Engineer
15 17 (2.92%) Business Analyst
16 15 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
17 13 (2.23%) Data Consultant
18 12 (2.06%) Data Modeller
18 12 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
18 12 (2.06%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.51%) PySpark
2 50 (8.59%) Terraform
3 39 (6.70%) Node.js
3 39 (6.70%) REST
4 26 (4.47%) Kafka
5 18 (3.09%) CSS
6 16 (2.75%) React
7 15 (2.58%) JSON
7 15 (2.58%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (2.23%) Pandas
9 12 (2.06%) Middleware
9 12 (2.06%) Tailwind CSS
10 10 (1.72%) RESTful
11 9 (1.55%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (1.55%) SOAP
12 8 (1.37%) Spring
13 7 (1.20%) .NET
13 7 (1.20%) Spring Boot
14 6 (1.03%) Django
14 6 (1.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.90%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.41%) Social Media
9 12 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.72%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.37%) Blog
12 8 (1.37%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.20%) Clustering
13 7 (1.20%) Low-Code
14 6 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
14 6 (1.03%) Replication
14 6 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.23%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (48.63%) Analytics
2 252 (43.30%) Business Intelligence
3 211 (36.25%) AI
4 189 (32.47%) Data Architecture
5 179 (30.76%) Decision-Making
6 169 (29.04%) CI/CD
7 165 (28.35%) Agile
8 159 (27.32%) Data Engineering
9 157 (26.98%) ETL
10 155 (26.63%) Data Pipeline
11 148 (25.43%) Data Governance
12 138 (23.71%) Data Strategy
13 130 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
14 109 (18.73%) DevOps
15 103 (17.70%) Mentoring
16 101 (17.35%) Roadmaps
17 96 (16.49%) Technical Leadership
18 94 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
19 91 (15.64%) Machine Learning
20 80 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 318 (54.64%) SQL
2 242 (41.58%) Python
3 50 (8.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (5.15%) C#
5 28 (4.81%) Java
6 27 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.12%) Scala
9 20 (3.44%) Bicep
10 19 (3.26%) T-SQL
11 14 (2.41%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.72%) Apex Code
12 10 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.20%) R
14 5 (0.86%) Bash
14 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.69%) C++
15 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.52%) Groovy
16 3 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 67 (11.51%) Degree
4 30 (5.15%) Azure Certification
5 25 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.92%) SnowPro
8 14 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.55%) CIPD
11 8 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.03%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.34%) PMP
16 1 (0.17%) CISSP
16 1 (0.17%) OCP
16 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (37.80%) Data Quality
2 55 (9.45%) GDPR
3 36 (6.19%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 14 (2.41%) 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 (0.34%) 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 (6.36%) Docker
2 6 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.34%) NFS
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.86%) Ansible
3 3 (0.52%) Packer
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.34%) SQL Sentry
5 1 (0.17%) Consul
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 190 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 100 (17.18%) Databricks
3 42 (7.22%) Oracle
4 30 (5.15%) SAP
5 27 (4.64%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.09%) Informatica
7 14 (2.41%) Google
8 11 (1.89%) Talend
9 7 (1.20%) Foundry
9 7 (1.20%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.03%) Infor
10 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.86%) Palantir
11 5 (0.86%) Workday
12 4 (0.69%) Braze
12 4 (0.69%) Epicor
12 4 (0.69%) IFS
12 4 (0.69%) RedGate