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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 117 89
Rank change year-on-year +25 -28 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 434 539 697
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.84% 2.71% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 3.00% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 273 270 486
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,500 £42,284
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,500 £95,125 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%

All Process and 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 13,914 17,939 19,783
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.91% 90.10% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,809 10,816 16,015
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,451
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 November 2025.

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 18 (4.15%) Apache
2 15 (3.46%) Confluence
3 14 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (3.00%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.92%) SAS
7 2 (0.46%) CMS
7 2 (0.46%) Mendix
8 1 (0.23%) Luigi
Applications
1 32 (7.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Trello
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) Notion
5 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.23%) Sketch
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.46%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 249 (57.37%) Azure
2 105 (24.19%) Power Platform
3 98 (22.58%) Snowflake
4 91 (20.97%) AWS
5 61 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (11.98%) GitHub
7 51 (11.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 44 (10.14%) GCP
8 44 (10.14%) SaaS
9 43 (9.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (9.68%) Serverless
11 39 (8.99%) dbt
12 32 (7.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (5.53%) Amazon S3
14 22 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (3.69%) Power Automate
15 16 (3.69%) PowerApps
16 14 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 13 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
18 12 (2.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.46%) Broadband
2 1 (0.23%) ADSL
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (40.09%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (22.81%) Power BI
3 69 (15.90%) Data Lake
4 37 (8.53%) Metadata
5 34 (7.83%) SQL Server
6 33 (7.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 25 (5.76%) Snowflake Schema
8 24 (5.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 23 (5.30%) Tableau
10 20 (4.61%) Data Vault
11 19 (4.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (3.92%) MySQL
12 17 (3.92%) Relational Database
13 15 (3.46%) Power Query
14 13 (3.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 13 (3.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (2.76%) BigQuery
16 11 (2.53%) Data Mining
16 11 (2.53%) NoSQL
17 9 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (9.22%) JIRA
2 24 (5.53%) Git
3 16 (3.69%) ER Studio
4 14 (3.23%) ERwin
5 5 (1.15%) git-flow
6 4 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.23%) LSMW
7 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 165 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 151 (34.79%) Finance
3 108 (24.88%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.53%) Law
6 24 (5.53%) Retail
7 23 (5.30%) Marketing
8 17 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (3.23%) Banking
10 10 (2.30%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.07%) Legal
12 8 (1.84%) Advertising
13 6 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.15%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.92%) Back Office
15 4 (0.92%) Billing
16 3 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 115 (26.50%) Architect
2 91 (20.97%) Senior
3 88 (20.28%) Data Architect
4 83 (19.12%) Data Engineer
5 57 (13.13%) Developer
6 48 (11.06%) Analyst
7 35 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
8 32 (7.37%) Lead
9 21 (4.84%) Business Analyst
10 16 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.46%) Azure Architect
11 15 (3.46%) Azure Data Architect
11 15 (3.46%) Consultant
12 13 (3.00%) Data Manager
13 12 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 12 (2.76%) Business Manager
13 12 (2.76%) Data Modeller
13 12 (2.76%) Insight Manager
13 12 (2.76%) Python Engineer
14 11 (2.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.60%) REST
2 22 (5.07%) Lightning Web Components
2 22 (5.07%) SOAP
3 21 (4.84%) .NET
4 18 (4.15%) JSON
5 16 (3.69%) CSS
5 16 (3.69%) HTML
5 16 (3.69%) Kafka
6 13 (3.00%) XML
7 12 (2.76%) Middleware
8 9 (2.07%) Visualforce
9 8 (1.84%) React
10 7 (1.61%) AWS CDK
10 7 (1.61%) RESTful
11 6 (1.38%) PySpark
11 6 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.15%) Material-UI
13 4 (0.92%) ADO
14 3 (0.69%) jQuery
14 3 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.99%) Product Ownership
2 35 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 17 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.38%) Reinsurance
7 6 (1.38%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.15%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.69%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.69%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.69%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.69%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.92%) Android
2 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (41.24%) Analytics
2 175 (40.32%) Agile
3 146 (33.64%) ETL
4 135 (31.11%) Data Engineering
5 123 (28.34%) Business Intelligence
6 116 (26.73%) Data Architecture
7 115 (26.50%) DevOps
8 110 (25.35%) Mentoring
9 105 (24.19%) AI
9 105 (24.19%) Data Integration
10 104 (23.96%) CI/CD
11 90 (20.74%) Data Governance
11 90 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
13 83 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 77 (17.74%) Data Management
15 67 (15.44%) Coaching
16 66 (15.21%) Decision-Making
17 64 (14.75%) Migration
18 56 (12.90%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 203 (46.77%) SQL
2 150 (34.56%) Python
3 38 (8.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 38 (8.76%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.29%) Java
5 34 (7.83%) C#
6 27 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 22 (5.07%) Apex Code
8 19 (4.38%) Scala
9 13 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.07%) R
10 9 (2.07%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.15%) Bash
11 5 (1.15%) PHP
11 5 (1.15%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.92%) Fortran
12 4 (0.92%) Go
12 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.69%) Swift
13 3 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (14.06%) Degree
2 38 (8.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (5.99%) Azure Certification
4 25 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (5.53%) AWS Certification
6 20 (4.61%) Security Cleared
7 19 (4.38%) SC Cleared
8 17 (3.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 9 (2.07%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.61%) DBS Check
12 7 (1.61%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.69%) ACCA
13 3 (0.69%) CIMA
13 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.69%) PMP
14 2 (0.46%) CFA
14 2 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 41 (9.45%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.38%) GDPR
4 14 (3.23%) QA
5 13 (3.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.23%) P3O
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (1.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.61%) Terraform
2 4 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.23%) Ansible
3 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 130 (29.95%) Microsoft
2 81 (18.66%) Databricks
3 33 (7.60%) Salesforce
4 21 (4.84%) Google
5 12 (2.76%) Oracle
6 11 (2.53%) Informatica
7 9 (2.07%) SAP
8 8 (1.84%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.84%) Talend
9 6 (1.38%) IBM
10 5 (1.15%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.69%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.46%) Adobe
13 2 (0.46%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.46%) Murex
13 2 (0.46%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.46%) Palantir
13 2 (0.46%) Samsung
13 2 (0.46%) Zend