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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 133 152
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 -61
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 538 406 530
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.36% 2.44% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.63% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 384 262 350
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £41,975
25th Percentile £51,381 £55,958 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -2.95% +3.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £96,825
UK median annual salary £69,973 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% -3.57% +4.47%

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 18,803 15,435 21,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.40% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,575 8,949 15,283
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 17 August 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 24 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.28%) Apache
3 18 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Confluence
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.56%) Blender
3 3 (0.56%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.37%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Finacle
5 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 208 (38.66%) Azure
2 174 (32.34%) Power Platform
3 111 (20.63%) AWS
4 66 (12.27%) GCP
5 62 (11.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (7.99%) Snowflake
7 41 (7.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (5.02%) Serverless
9 26 (4.83%) GitHub
10 24 (4.46%) Amazon S3
10 24 (4.46%) Microsoft Purview
11 23 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (4.28%) dbt
12 22 (4.09%) SaaS
13 20 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.79%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 10 (1.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.43%) Broadband
2 4 (0.74%) NGN
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) ATM
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (29.74%) Power BI
2 99 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (16.73%) Metadata
4 57 (10.59%) Data Lake
5 48 (8.92%) Relational Database
6 47 (8.74%) SQL Server
6 47 (8.74%) Tableau
7 45 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (6.13%) Semantic Layer
9 29 (5.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (4.83%) BigQuery
11 25 (4.65%) Delta Lake
12 24 (4.46%) MongoDB
13 23 (4.28%) Star Schema
14 22 (4.09%) Big Data
15 21 (3.90%) NoSQL
16 18 (3.35%) Data Vault
17 17 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (2.97%) DynamoDB
19 15 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 48 (8.92%) Git
2 24 (4.46%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.67%) JIRA
4 7 (1.30%) GitLab
5 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.56%) MLflow
5 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.37%) ERwin
7 1 (0.19%) Ant
7 1 (0.19%) Mocha
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Toad
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 202 (37.55%) Social Skills
2 156 (29.00%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (25.28%) Finance
4 78 (14.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (11.71%) Public Sector
6 41 (7.62%) Law
7 33 (6.13%) Retail
8 25 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (4.09%) Marketing
10 18 (3.35%) Banking
11 16 (2.97%) Legal
11 16 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.30%) Games
13 7 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Billing
14 5 (0.93%) Legal Technology
14 5 (0.93%) Military
15 4 (0.74%) Health Technology
16 3 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 144 (26.77%) Data Engineer
2 129 (23.98%) Architect
3 100 (18.59%) Senior
4 91 (16.91%) Data Architect
5 68 (12.64%) Analyst
6 53 (9.85%) Lead
7 51 (9.48%) Developer
8 31 (5.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 30 (5.58%) Data Analyst
10 23 (4.28%) Business Analyst
10 23 (4.28%) Senior Architect
11 20 (3.72%) Senior Data Architect
11 20 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
12 16 (2.97%) Consultant
13 15 (2.79%) Data Modeller
13 15 (2.79%) Software Engineer
14 14 (2.60%) Financial Analyst
14 14 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 12 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.41%) PySpark
2 42 (7.81%) REST
3 37 (6.88%) Node.js
4 27 (5.02%) Kafka
5 15 (2.79%) JSON
6 14 (2.60%) CSS
6 14 (2.60%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (2.60%) React
7 12 (2.23%) Middleware
8 11 (2.04%) SOAP
9 10 (1.86%) .NET
10 9 (1.67%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (1.49%) RESTful
12 7 (1.30%) Spring
13 6 (1.12%) Django
13 6 (1.12%) LangChain
13 6 (1.12%) Pandas
13 6 (1.12%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.34%) Cloud Native
2 46 (8.55%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.35%) Social Media
5 12 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.86%) Blog
7 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.86%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.67%) Taxonomies
9 8 (1.49%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
11 6 (1.12%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.93%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.56%) Windows
2 2 (0.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (46.47%) Analytics
2 208 (38.66%) Business Intelligence
3 185 (34.39%) AI
4 168 (31.23%) Data Architecture
5 161 (29.93%) Data Engineering
6 160 (29.74%) Decision-Making
7 140 (26.02%) Data Pipeline
8 139 (25.84%) Agile
9 135 (25.09%) Data Strategy
10 131 (24.35%) ETL
11 130 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (23.98%) CI/CD
13 126 (23.42%) Data Governance
14 94 (17.47%) Machine Learning
15 87 (16.17%) Roadmaps
16 81 (15.06%) DevOps
17 78 (14.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 77 (14.31%) Mentoring
19 75 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
20 71 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 262 (48.70%) SQL
2 214 (39.78%) Python
3 36 (6.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (5.58%) Java
5 26 (4.83%) JavaScript
6 23 (4.28%) Scala
7 22 (4.09%) TypeScript
8 20 (3.72%) C#
9 18 (3.35%) T-SQL
10 17 (3.16%) Bicep
11 13 (2.42%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.30%) Go
13 7 (1.30%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.12%) R
15 5 (0.93%) Bash
15 5 (0.93%) C++
16 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.56%) Groovy
17 3 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.34%) Degree
3 55 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.20%) Azure Certification
5 22 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.79%) SnowPro
8 14 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.67%) CIPD
10 9 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.37%) IIBA
16 1 (0.19%) CBAP
16 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
16 1 (0.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (36.62%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.36%) GDPR
3 24 (4.46%) QA
4 19 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.74%) PERC
6 4 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.56%) MiFID
7 3 (0.56%) UCITS
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) HL7
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 33 (6.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (8.18%) Terraform
2 15 (2.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.74%) Ansible
4 3 (0.56%) Packer
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 155 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 98 (18.22%) Databricks
3 46 (8.55%) Oracle
4 37 (6.88%) SAP
5 33 (6.13%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.86%) Google
7 9 (1.67%) Informatica
8 7 (1.30%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.30%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.12%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.93%) Infor
10 5 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.74%) Epicor
11 4 (0.74%) Foundry
11 4 (0.74%) IBM
11 4 (0.74%) IFS
12 3 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.56%) TOWER Software