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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 133 117
Rank change year-on-year +52 -16 -23
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 514 418 852
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.75% 2.76% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.90% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 356 240 632
10th Percentile £43,125 £46,250 £37,600
25th Percentile £52,475 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £69,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.15% - -2.99%

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 15,436 14,396 29,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.67% 95.08% 90.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,985 8,732 23,377
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 18 May 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 24 (4.67%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.47%) Apache
4 10 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.17%) SAS
7 5 (0.97%) CMS
8 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.58%) Confluence
8 3 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) Camunda
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.39%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (1.95%) NetSuite
3 7 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.78%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 258 (50.19%) Azure
2 139 (27.04%) Power Platform
3 117 (22.76%) AWS
4 89 (17.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 59 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (11.28%) GCP
7 57 (11.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 56 (10.89%) Snowflake
9 45 (8.75%) dbt
10 43 (8.37%) GitHub
11 38 (7.39%) Serverless
12 28 (5.45%) Amazon S3
13 24 (4.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 22 (4.28%) SaaS
15 21 (4.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 20 (3.89%) GitHub Copilot
17 17 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
18 14 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
19 13 (2.53%) Power Automate
19 13 (2.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (6.23%) Broadband
2 3 (0.58%) NGN
3 1 (0.19%) 4G
3 1 (0.19%) 5G
3 1 (0.19%) Network Security
3 1 (0.19%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (24.12%) Power BI
2 84 (16.34%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (15.95%) Metadata
4 63 (12.26%) Data Lake
5 47 (9.14%) Tableau
6 40 (7.78%) Relational Database
7 36 (7.00%) SQL Server
8 35 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (5.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (4.09%) BigQuery
11 21 (4.09%) MySQL
11 21 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (3.50%) Delta Lake
12 18 (3.50%) SAP BW
13 16 (3.11%) Semantic Layer
14 15 (2.92%) NoSQL
15 14 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
16 13 (2.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (8.75%) Git
2 14 (2.72%) JIRA
3 10 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.78%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.78%) ERwin
5 2 (0.39%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) MLflow
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
1 182 (35.41%) Social Skills
2 160 (31.13%) Finance
3 133 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (14.01%) Public Sector
5 51 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (7.20%) Law
7 31 (6.03%) Marketing
8 26 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (5.06%) Retail
9 13 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.14%) Banking
10 11 (2.14%) Publishing
11 8 (1.56%) Legal
12 7 (1.36%) Games
13 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.78%) Back Office
14 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.58%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 145 (28.21%) Data Engineer
2 107 (20.82%) Architect
3 104 (20.23%) Senior
4 68 (13.23%) Lead
5 65 (12.65%) Analyst
6 64 (12.45%) Developer
7 61 (11.87%) Data Architect
8 42 (8.17%) Data Analyst
8 42 (8.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 25 (4.86%) Lead Data Engineer
10 24 (4.67%) Senior Architect
11 22 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.50%) Consultant
13 17 (3.31%) Senior Data Architect
14 16 (3.11%) Salesforce Developer
15 15 (2.92%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 14 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
17 13 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (10.12%) REST
2 41 (7.98%) PySpark
3 36 (7.00%) Kafka
4 33 (6.42%) Lightning Web Components
5 32 (6.23%) SOAP
6 22 (4.28%) Node.js
7 20 (3.89%) .NET
8 19 (3.70%) Middleware
9 17 (3.31%) JSON
10 16 (3.11%) React
11 15 (2.92%) Visualforce
12 13 (2.53%) CSS
13 12 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (2.33%) XML
14 9 (1.75%) HTML
15 6 (1.17%) YAML
16 5 (0.97%) RESTful
16 5 (0.97%) Spring
16 5 (0.97%) Tailwind CSS
17 4 (0.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.34%) Data Structures
2 41 (7.98%) Cloud Native
3 35 (6.81%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.09%) Social Media
5 20 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.33%) FMCG
9 11 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.75%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.36%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.36%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.17%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.17%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.97%) Windows
2 3 (0.58%) Android
3 2 (0.39%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (44.75%) Analytics
2 162 (31.52%) Business Intelligence
3 158 (30.74%) ETL
4 156 (30.35%) Data Engineering
5 154 (29.96%) Agile
6 145 (28.21%) CI/CD
7 140 (27.24%) Data Architecture
7 140 (27.24%) Data Pipeline
8 136 (26.46%) DevOps
9 122 (23.74%) Data Governance
10 112 (21.79%) AI
11 105 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
12 104 (20.23%) Decision-Making
13 84 (16.34%) Mentoring
14 81 (15.76%) Data Strategy
15 66 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 64 (12.45%) Visualisation
17 62 (12.06%) Coaching
18 60 (11.67%) Machine Learning
19 58 (11.28%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 242 (47.08%) SQL
2 217 (42.22%) Python
3 46 (8.95%) Java
4 41 (7.98%) JavaScript
5 32 (6.23%) Apex Code
6 26 (5.06%) Scala
7 25 (4.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (4.86%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.67%) PowerShell
9 23 (4.47%) C#
10 22 (4.28%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.95%) Bash
12 7 (1.36%) Go
13 6 (1.17%) C++
14 5 (0.97%) Bicep
14 5 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.97%) PHP
14 5 (0.97%) R
15 4 (0.78%) SOQL
15 4 (0.78%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 79 (15.37%) Degree
2 66 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 52 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 32 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.14%) ACCA
8 11 (2.14%) CIMA
9 10 (1.95%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
13 1 (0.19%) CBAP
13 1 (0.19%) GIAC
13 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (29.96%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.03%) GDPR
3 20 (3.89%) QA
4 13 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.58%) IFRS
6 3 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.58%) PERC
6 3 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 18 (3.50%) Docker
2 12 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (7.20%) Terraform
2 8 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Ansible
3 3 (0.58%) Control-M
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
1 124 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 111 (21.60%) Databricks
3 55 (10.70%) Salesforce
4 33 (6.42%) SAP
5 32 (6.23%) Oracle
6 14 (2.72%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.33%) Google
8 11 (2.14%) IBM
9 9 (1.75%) Informatica
10 7 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.17%) Foundry
12 5 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.78%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.78%) Palantir
13 4 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.78%) Talend
14 3 (0.58%) BMC
14 3 (0.58%) Sparx
15 2 (0.39%) iManage