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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 138 118
Rank change year-on-year +50 -20 -24
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 528 403 834
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.77% 2.78% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.93% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 368 225 623
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,338 £37,259
25th Percentile £52,400 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -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 15,823 13,768 29,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.03% 94.85% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,289 8,032 23,418
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,826 £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 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -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 27 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 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.55%) Apache
2 24 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.14%) SAS
6 4 (0.76%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
Applications
1 27 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Blender
3 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.38%) Maya
3 2 (0.38%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.52%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.76%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 254 (48.11%) Azure
2 139 (26.33%) Power Platform
3 126 (23.86%) AWS
4 87 (16.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 62 (11.74%) GCP
6 55 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 51 (9.66%) Snowflake
8 50 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (7.95%) GitHub
10 40 (7.58%) dbt
11 38 (7.20%) Serverless
12 31 (5.87%) Amazon S3
13 23 (4.36%) SaaS
14 22 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 16 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
17 15 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (2.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.82%) Broadband
2 3 (0.57%) 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
1 123 (23.30%) Power BI
2 84 (15.91%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (15.34%) Metadata
4 64 (12.12%) Data Lake
5 44 (8.33%) Tableau
6 42 (7.95%) Relational Database
7 40 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (7.01%) SQL Server
9 29 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (4.55%) BigQuery
11 22 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (3.98%) MySQL
13 20 (3.79%) Semantic Layer
14 19 (3.60%) NoSQL
15 18 (3.41%) Delta Lake
15 18 (3.41%) SAP BW
16 17 (3.22%) Big Data
17 16 (3.03%) MongoDB
18 15 (2.84%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 43 (8.14%) Git
2 13 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.08%) JIRA
4 4 (0.76%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.76%) ERwin
4 4 (0.76%) GitLab
5 2 (0.38%) 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
1 190 (35.98%) Social Skills
2 155 (29.36%) Finance
3 139 (26.33%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (14.20%) Public Sector
5 60 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.82%) Law
7 29 (5.49%) Marketing
8 26 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (4.36%) Retail
10 13 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.89%) Banking
11 10 (1.89%) Legal
12 9 (1.70%) Publishing
13 7 (1.33%) Games
14 6 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.76%) Billing
16 4 (0.76%) Local Government
16 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 150 (28.41%) Data Engineer
2 111 (21.02%) Architect
3 106 (20.08%) Senior
4 71 (13.45%) Lead
5 66 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 65 (12.31%) Developer
7 64 (12.12%) Analyst
8 42 (7.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (7.77%) Data Analyst
10 24 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
10 24 (4.55%) Senior Architect
11 22 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.41%) Consultant
13 17 (3.22%) Senior Data Architect
14 16 (3.03%) Business Analyst
14 16 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 15 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.84%) Salesforce Developer
16 13 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.23%) REST
2 42 (7.95%) PySpark
3 36 (6.82%) Kafka
4 33 (6.25%) Node.js
5 30 (5.68%) Lightning Web Components
5 30 (5.68%) SOAP
6 19 (3.60%) .NET
6 19 (3.60%) JSON
7 18 (3.41%) Middleware
7 18 (3.41%) React
8 16 (3.03%) CSS
9 14 (2.65%) Visualforce
10 12 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (2.27%) XML
11 9 (1.70%) HTML
12 8 (1.52%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (1.14%) RESTful
13 6 (1.14%) Spring
14 5 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.85%) Data Structures
2 47 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 33 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 21 (3.98%) Social Media
5 17 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.89%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.89%) FMCG
9 10 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.70%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.52%) Blog
11 8 (1.52%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.14%) Anti-Piracy
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.95%) Windows
2 3 (0.57%) Android
3 2 (0.38%) Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (45.64%) Analytics
2 163 (30.87%) Business Intelligence
3 160 (30.30%) Data Engineering
4 156 (29.55%) Agile
5 155 (29.36%) ETL
6 150 (28.41%) CI/CD
7 145 (27.46%) Data Architecture
8 144 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
9 133 (25.19%) DevOps
10 127 (24.05%) AI
11 124 (23.48%) Data Governance
12 117 (22.16%) Decision-Making
13 113 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
14 92 (17.42%) Data Strategy
15 87 (16.48%) Mentoring
16 69 (13.07%) Machine Learning
17 66 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (12.12%) Visualisation
19 59 (11.17%) Coaching
20 57 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 250 (47.35%) SQL
2 222 (42.05%) Python
3 46 (8.71%) Java
4 44 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 29 (5.49%) Apex Code
5 29 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 26 (4.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (4.73%) Scala
8 23 (4.36%) PowerShell
9 22 (4.17%) T-SQL
10 21 (3.98%) C#
11 10 (1.89%) Bash
12 7 (1.33%) Go
13 6 (1.14%) C++
14 5 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.95%) R
15 4 (0.76%) Bicep
15 4 (0.76%) PHP
15 4 (0.76%) SOQL
15 4 (0.76%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 74 (14.02%) Degree
2 73 (13.83%) Security Cleared
3 58 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 30 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.22%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.70%) ACCA
8 9 (1.70%) CIMA
9 8 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.38%) IIBA
13 1 (0.19%) CBAP
13 1 (0.19%) GIAC
13 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (32.01%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.25%) GDPR
3 21 (3.98%) QA
4 14 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.57%) IFRS
6 3 (0.57%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.57%) PERC
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 23 (4.36%) Docker
2 12 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (7.58%) Terraform
2 9 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Ansible
3 3 (0.57%) Control-M
3 3 (0.57%) Packer
4 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 125 (23.67%) Microsoft
2 108 (20.45%) Databricks
3 51 (9.66%) Salesforce
4 34 (6.44%) SAP
5 33 (6.25%) Oracle
6 13 (2.46%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.27%) Google
8 11 (2.08%) IBM
9 10 (1.89%) Informatica
10 7 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.14%) Foundry
11 6 (1.14%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.76%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.76%) Palantir
12 4 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.57%) BMC
13 3 (0.57%) Sparx
13 3 (0.57%) Talend
14 2 (0.38%) iManage