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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 134 129
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 -28
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 524 427 797
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.55% 2.71% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.88% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 377 254 588
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £69,973 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.65% -3.70% -

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 16,900 14,802 29,888
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.24% 94.02% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,326 8,674 23,017
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 28 June 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 32 (6.11%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.96%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.39%) Apache
4 13 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.15%) SAS
7 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Blender
3 3 (0.57%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.34%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 220 (41.98%) Azure
2 153 (29.20%) Power Platform
3 122 (23.28%) AWS
4 73 (13.93%) GCP
5 65 (12.40%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 36 (6.87%) Snowflake
8 33 (6.30%) Serverless
9 32 (6.11%) SaaS
10 26 (4.96%) Amazon S3
11 25 (4.77%) dbt
12 22 (4.20%) GitHub
13 20 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (3.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 12 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.40%) Broadband
2 4 (0.76%) NGN
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (26.34%) Power BI
2 92 (17.56%) Metadata
3 77 (14.69%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (10.11%) Data Lake
5 48 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
6 45 (8.59%) Relational Database
7 43 (8.21%) Tableau
8 41 (7.82%) SQL Server
9 32 (6.11%) Semantic Layer
10 30 (5.73%) BigQuery
11 28 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 21 (4.01%) MySQL
14 20 (3.82%) Big Data
15 19 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (3.44%) MongoDB
17 17 (3.24%) NoSQL
17 17 (3.24%) SAP BW
17 17 (3.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 16 (3.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 36 (6.87%) Git
2 19 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.53%) JIRA
4 6 (1.15%) GitLab
5 3 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.19%) Ant
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.19%) ERwin
6 1 (0.19%) Mocha
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
1 190 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 139 (26.53%) Analytical Skills
3 123 (23.47%) Finance
4 80 (15.27%) Public Sector
5 75 (14.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (7.63%) Law
7 26 (4.96%) Retail
8 25 (4.77%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (4.39%) Marketing
10 11 (2.10%) Banking
10 11 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.10%) Legal
10 11 (2.10%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.34%) Games
11 7 (1.34%) Publishing
12 4 (0.76%) Billing
12 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.76%) Local Government
12 4 (0.76%) Police
12 4 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (28.24%) Data Engineer
2 124 (23.66%) Architect
3 107 (20.42%) Senior
4 85 (16.22%) Data Architect
5 72 (13.74%) Lead
6 68 (12.98%) Analyst
7 65 (12.40%) Developer
8 41 (7.82%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (7.44%) Data Analyst
10 33 (6.30%) Senior Architect
11 26 (4.96%) Senior Data Architect
12 22 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (3.63%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 17 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
16 16 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 16 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.67%) Consultant
17 14 (2.67%) Salesforce Developer
18 13 (2.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.16%) REST
2 41 (7.82%) PySpark
3 40 (7.63%) Node.js
4 33 (6.30%) Kafka
5 20 (3.82%) Middleware
5 20 (3.82%) SOAP
6 19 (3.63%) JSON
6 19 (3.63%) Lightning Web Components
7 16 (3.05%) .NET
7 16 (3.05%) CSS
7 16 (3.05%) React
8 14 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (2.48%) Visualforce
10 12 (2.29%) XML
11 9 (1.72%) HTML
11 9 (1.72%) RESTful
12 8 (1.53%) Spring
12 8 (1.53%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (1.15%) LangChain
13 6 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.31%) Data Structures
2 52 (9.92%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.77%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.20%) Social Media
5 18 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.24%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.10%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.91%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.72%) Blog
10 9 (1.72%) FMCG
11 8 (1.53%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.15%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Android
2 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (45.04%) Analytics
2 178 (33.97%) Business Intelligence
3 163 (31.11%) Data Architecture
4 162 (30.92%) Data Engineering
5 147 (28.05%) Decision-Making
6 142 (27.10%) Agile
7 141 (26.91%) AI
8 138 (26.34%) CI/CD
9 131 (25.00%) ETL
10 130 (24.81%) Data Pipeline
11 126 (24.05%) Data Governance
12 123 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
13 114 (21.76%) Data Strategy
14 94 (17.94%) DevOps
15 87 (16.60%) Mentoring
16 78 (14.89%) Machine Learning
16 78 (14.89%) Roadmaps
17 69 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (13.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 61 (11.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 245 (46.76%) SQL
2 204 (38.93%) Python
3 41 (7.82%) JavaScript
4 39 (7.44%) Java
5 32 (6.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 25 (4.77%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.20%) T-SQL
8 20 (3.82%) Scala
9 18 (3.44%) Apex Code
10 16 (3.05%) C#
11 15 (2.86%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.72%) Bash
12 9 (1.72%) Bicep
13 7 (1.34%) Go
13 7 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (1.15%) C++
15 5 (0.95%) R
16 4 (0.76%) PHP
16 4 (0.76%) SOQL
16 4 (0.76%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 71 (13.55%) Degree
3 56 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 22 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.48%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.72%) CIPD
9 7 (1.34%) ACCA
9 7 (1.34%) CIMA
9 7 (1.34%) SnowPro
10 6 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.95%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.95%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.38%) IIBA
14 1 (0.19%) CBAP
14 1 (0.19%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (36.07%) Data Quality
2 37 (7.06%) GDPR
3 23 (4.39%) QA
4 12 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.76%) PERC
6 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.57%) IFRS
6 3 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (4.96%) Docker
2 8 (1.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (6.68%) Terraform
2 12 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.76%) Ansible
4 3 (0.57%) Packer
5 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 131 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 100 (19.08%) Databricks
3 44 (8.40%) Salesforce
4 42 (8.02%) Oracle
5 36 (6.87%) SAP
6 14 (2.67%) Google
7 13 (2.48%) MuleSoft
8 12 (2.29%) Informatica
9 8 (1.53%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.34%) Foundry
10 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.15%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.76%) IBM
13 3 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.57%) Epicor
13 3 (0.57%) IFS
13 3 (0.57%) Infor
13 3 (0.57%) Palantir
13 3 (0.57%) TOWER Software