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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 114 89
Rank change year-on-year +32 -25 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 497 473 785
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 2.88% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 3.06% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 306 220 551
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,625 £39,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,300 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +1.96% -1.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,300 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% - -

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 13,337 15,436 21,353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.10% 93.91% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 9,087 17,391
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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 January 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 28 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.63%) Apache
3 16 (3.22%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.82%) Confluence
5 5 (1.01%) CMS
6 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.40%) Mendix
7 2 (0.40%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Luigi
Applications
1 30 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.60%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
4 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.61%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.21%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 316 (63.58%) Azure
2 121 (24.35%) AWS
2 121 (24.35%) Snowflake
3 102 (20.52%) Power Platform
4 94 (18.91%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (17.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 73 (14.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 71 (14.29%) GitHub
8 60 (12.07%) GCP
9 58 (11.67%) dbt
10 48 (9.66%) GitHub Copilot
11 47 (9.46%) Serverless
12 42 (8.45%) SaaS
13 32 (6.44%) Amazon S3
14 21 (4.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (2.41%) PowerApps
16 12 (2.41%) Salesforce Einstein
17 11 (2.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) Broadband
2 1 (0.20%) ADSL
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (37.02%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (19.11%) Power BI
3 84 (16.90%) Data Lake
4 64 (12.88%) Metadata
5 42 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (6.84%) Tableau
7 30 (6.04%) SQL Server
8 24 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 22 (4.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (4.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (4.02%) MySQL
10 20 (4.02%) NoSQL
11 18 (3.62%) Data Vault
12 16 (3.22%) BigQuery
12 16 (3.22%) Data Mining
13 15 (3.02%) Relational Database
13 15 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (2.82%) Delta Lake
15 12 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 11 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 39 (7.85%) JIRA
2 38 (7.65%) Git
3 18 (3.62%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.62%) ERwin
4 6 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.01%) git-flow
6 4 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 191 (38.43%) Finance
2 178 (35.81%) Social Skills
3 128 (25.75%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (5.84%) Marketing
6 25 (5.03%) Retail
7 22 (4.43%) Law
8 12 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.01%) Banking
10 9 (1.81%) Legal
11 8 (1.61%) Advertising
11 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.61%) Publishing
12 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Back Office
13 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 143 (28.77%) Architect
2 115 (23.14%) Senior
3 108 (21.73%) Data Engineer
4 101 (20.32%) Data Architect
5 54 (10.87%) Developer
6 39 (7.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 38 (7.65%) Analyst
8 34 (6.84%) Lead
9 18 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (3.42%) Data Analyst
10 17 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
10 17 (3.42%) Senior Architect
10 17 (3.42%) Senior Data Architect
11 16 (3.22%) Consultant
11 16 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.82%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.82%) Data Modeller
13 13 (2.62%) Applications Architect
14 12 (2.41%) Business Manager
14 12 (2.41%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.85%) REST
2 35 (7.04%) SOAP
3 31 (6.24%) Lightning Web Components
4 28 (5.63%) Kafka
5 22 (4.43%) .NET
5 22 (4.43%) PySpark
6 14 (2.82%) CSS
7 13 (2.62%) HTML
7 13 (2.62%) Middleware
8 12 (2.41%) JSON
8 12 (2.41%) React
9 11 (2.21%) XML
10 9 (1.81%) Visualforce
11 8 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (1.61%) YAML
12 7 (1.41%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.21%) Node.js
14 5 (1.01%) Material-UI
15 4 (0.80%) gRPC
15 4 (0.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.66%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.41%) FMCG
8 7 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.21%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.01%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.80%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.60%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.60%) Low-Code
12 3 (0.60%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.41%) Android
2 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (42.45%) Analytics
2 208 (41.85%) Agile
3 170 (34.21%) ETL
4 169 (34.00%) DevOps
5 164 (33.00%) Data Engineering
6 151 (30.38%) CI/CD
7 150 (30.18%) Data Architecture
8 127 (25.55%) AI
8 127 (25.55%) Data Governance
9 126 (25.35%) Mentoring
10 125 (25.15%) Business Intelligence
11 119 (23.94%) Data Pipeline
12 109 (21.93%) Coaching
13 106 (21.33%) Data Integration
14 101 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 81 (16.30%) Data Management
17 78 (15.69%) Asset Management
18 75 (15.09%) Clean Code
19 70 (14.08%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 229 (46.08%) SQL
2 197 (39.64%) Python
3 49 (9.86%) Java
4 45 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 44 (8.85%) C#
6 36 (7.24%) TypeScript
7 32 (6.44%) Apex Code
8 31 (6.24%) Scala
9 24 (4.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 20 (4.02%) PowerShell
11 13 (2.62%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.01%) R
13 9 (1.81%) Bash
14 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.01%) PHP
16 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.60%) Swift
17 2 (0.40%) Bicep
17 2 (0.40%) Go
17 2 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 76 (15.29%) Degree
2 50 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (6.84%) Azure Certification
3 34 (6.84%) Security Cleared
4 31 (6.24%) SC Cleared
5 28 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (5.03%) TOGAF Certification
7 24 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.41%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 8 (1.61%) ACCA
9 8 (1.61%) CIMA
10 7 (1.41%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.01%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.20%) PhD
13 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (17.51%) Data Quality
2 45 (9.05%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.62%) Actionable Recommendations
3 13 (2.62%) QA
4 12 (2.41%) GDPR
5 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.20%) P3O
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (1.41%) Docker
2 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (6.84%) Terraform
2 6 (1.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.60%) Control-M
4 1 (0.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 144 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 102 (20.52%) Databricks
3 44 (8.85%) Salesforce
4 26 (5.23%) Google
5 12 (2.41%) Informatica
6 11 (2.21%) IBM
7 9 (1.81%) SAP
7 9 (1.81%) Talend
8 8 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.61%) Oracle
9 4 (0.80%) Ab Initio
9 4 (0.80%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.60%) BMC
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Sparx
11 2 (0.40%) Foundry
11 2 (0.40%) iManage
11 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.40%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.40%) Zend