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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 134 124
Rank change year-on-year +40 -10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 514 426 846
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.58% 2.78% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.94% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 363 246 627
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £38,650
25th Percentile £51,588 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +1.96% -4.50%
75th Percentile £85,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 16,294 14,504 30,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.85% 94.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,745 8,418 23,751
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £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% -9.54%

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 16 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 37 (7.20%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (5.06%) Apache
3 25 (4.86%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.17%) SAS
7 5 (0.97%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.39%) CMS
9 2 (0.39%) Confluence
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 30 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Blender
3 3 (0.58%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 225 (43.77%) Azure
2 146 (28.40%) Power Platform
3 125 (24.32%) AWS
4 70 (13.62%) GCP
5 69 (13.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (8.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (7.59%) Snowflake
8 35 (6.81%) Serverless
9 31 (6.03%) dbt
10 28 (5.45%) Amazon S3
11 27 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (5.25%) SaaS
12 25 (4.86%) GitHub
13 19 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (3.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 14 (2.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (2.33%) Power Automate
16 12 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.56%) Broadband
2 4 (0.78%) NGN
3 2 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (25.68%) Power BI
2 87 (16.93%) Metadata
3 72 (14.01%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (10.70%) Data Lake
5 45 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (8.75%) Relational Database
5 45 (8.75%) Tableau
6 40 (7.78%) SQL Server
7 31 (6.03%) Semantic Layer
8 30 (5.84%) BigQuery
9 25 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (4.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (4.09%) MySQL
12 20 (3.89%) Amazon Redshift
13 19 (3.70%) NoSQL
14 18 (3.50%) Big Data
14 18 (3.50%) MongoDB
15 17 (3.31%) SAP BW
16 16 (3.11%) DynamoDB
17 15 (2.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (7.59%) Git
2 18 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.75%) JIRA
4 6 (1.17%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.39%) ERwin
5 2 (0.39%) MLflow
6 1 (0.19%) Ant
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
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
1 189 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 135 (26.26%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (24.90%) Finance
4 78 (15.18%) Public Sector
5 74 (14.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (7.78%) Law
7 25 (4.86%) Marketing
8 24 (4.67%) Retail
9 23 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.33%) Legal
11 11 (2.14%) Banking
12 10 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.95%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.56%) Publishing
14 7 (1.36%) Games
15 4 (0.78%) Billing
15 4 (0.78%) Local Government
16 3 (0.58%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.58%) Police
16 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (28.60%) Data Engineer
2 116 (22.57%) Architect
3 99 (19.26%) Senior
4 76 (14.79%) Data Architect
5 74 (14.40%) Lead
6 68 (13.23%) Analyst
7 66 (12.84%) Developer
8 39 (7.59%) Data Analyst
8 39 (7.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 26 (5.06%) Senior Architect
10 25 (4.86%) Lead Data Engineer
11 20 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (3.70%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.70%) Senior Data Architect
13 18 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 17 (3.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 14 (2.72%) Consultant
15 14 (2.72%) Salesforce Developer
15 14 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.73%) REST
2 41 (7.98%) Node.js
3 39 (7.59%) PySpark
4 37 (7.20%) Kafka
5 22 (4.28%) SOAP
6 21 (4.09%) Lightning Web Components
7 19 (3.70%) JSON
8 18 (3.50%) Middleware
8 18 (3.50%) React
9 17 (3.31%) CSS
10 16 (3.11%) .NET
11 13 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (2.53%) Visualforce
12 12 (2.33%) XML
13 10 (1.95%) HTML
14 8 (1.56%) Spring
14 8 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
15 7 (1.36%) RESTful
16 6 (1.17%) Spring Boot
17 5 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.31%) Data Structures
2 51 (9.92%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.28%) Social Media
5 18 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.95%) FMCG
9 10 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.95%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.75%) Blog
10 9 (1.75%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.56%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.36%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.17%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.39%) Linux
1 2 (0.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Android
2 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (45.91%) Analytics
2 172 (33.46%) Business Intelligence
3 163 (31.71%) Data Engineering
4 155 (30.16%) Data Architecture
5 145 (28.21%) Agile
6 142 (27.63%) CI/CD
7 134 (26.07%) ETL
8 132 (25.68%) AI
8 132 (25.68%) Data Pipeline
9 129 (25.10%) Decision-Making
10 122 (23.74%) Data Governance
11 118 (22.96%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (20.82%) Data Strategy
13 102 (19.84%) DevOps
14 89 (17.32%) Mentoring
15 75 (14.59%) Machine Learning
16 66 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (12.84%) Roadmaps
17 63 (12.26%) Visualisation
18 61 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 245 (47.67%) SQL
2 212 (41.25%) Python
3 43 (8.37%) Java
4 42 (8.17%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 26 (5.06%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.09%) Apex Code
8 20 (3.89%) Scala
8 20 (3.89%) T-SQL
9 16 (3.11%) C#
9 16 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.14%) Bash
11 7 (1.36%) Bicep
11 7 (1.36%) Go
12 6 (1.17%) C++
13 5 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.97%) R
14 4 (0.78%) PHP
14 4 (0.78%) SOQL
14 4 (0.78%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 73 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.62%) Degree
3 58 (11.28%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.56%) ACCA
8 8 (1.56%) CIMA
9 6 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.97%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.58%) CIPD
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
13 1 (0.19%) CBAP
13 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (35.21%) Data Quality
2 34 (6.61%) GDPR
3 22 (4.28%) QA
4 13 (2.53%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.78%) PERC
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.58%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (5.06%) Docker
2 9 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (6.81%) Terraform
2 10 (1.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Ansible
3 3 (0.58%) Packer
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 121 (23.54%) Microsoft
2 101 (19.65%) Databricks
3 45 (8.75%) Salesforce
4 38 (7.39%) Oracle
5 35 (6.81%) SAP
6 13 (2.53%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.14%) Google
7 11 (2.14%) Informatica
8 7 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.17%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.97%) Foundry
10 5 (0.97%) IBM
10 5 (0.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.58%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.58%) Palantir
11 3 (0.58%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.39%) iManage
12 2 (0.39%) Planon