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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 130 123
Rank change year-on-year +38 -7 -15
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 515 417 841
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.66% 2.80% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 2.96% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 365 240 628
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £38,200
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,950
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +3.26% -3.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 15,867 14,093 30,256
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.01% 94.67% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 8,291 23,580
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 6 June 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 39 (7.57%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (5.05%) Apache
2 26 (5.05%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.17%) SAS
6 5 (0.97%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.58%) CMS
7 3 (0.58%) Confluence
7 3 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 28 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Blender
3 3 (0.58%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.39%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 235 (45.63%) Azure
2 145 (28.16%) Power Platform
3 126 (24.47%) AWS
4 78 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 63 (12.23%) GCP
6 51 (9.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 42 (8.16%) Snowflake
8 37 (7.18%) Serverless
9 36 (6.99%) dbt
10 35 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (6.02%) Amazon S3
12 30 (5.83%) GitHub
13 25 (4.85%) SaaS
14 19 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (3.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 16 (3.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (2.33%) Power Automate
17 12 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.57%) Broadband
2 3 (0.58%) NGN
3 2 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (25.24%) Power BI
2 82 (15.92%) Metadata
3 75 (14.56%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (11.65%) Data Lake
5 45 (8.74%) Tableau
6 44 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (8.54%) Relational Database
7 38 (7.38%) SQL Server
8 28 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (5.05%) BigQuery
10 25 (4.85%) Semantic Layer
11 23 (4.47%) MySQL
12 22 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 19 (3.69%) NoSQL
15 18 (3.50%) Big Data
15 18 (3.50%) MongoDB
16 17 (3.30%) SAP BW
17 16 (3.11%) Delta Lake
17 16 (3.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (7.77%) Git
2 16 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.94%) JIRA
4 6 (1.17%) GitLab
5 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.39%) ERwin
5 2 (0.39%) 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
1 188 (36.50%) Social Skills
2 138 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (26.41%) Finance
4 80 (15.53%) Public Sector
5 70 (13.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (7.57%) Law
7 24 (4.66%) Marketing
8 23 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (4.47%) Retail
9 12 (2.33%) Legal
10 11 (2.14%) Banking
10 11 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.55%) Publishing
12 7 (1.36%) Games
13 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.78%) Billing
14 4 (0.78%) Local Government
15 3 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 154 (29.90%) Data Engineer
2 109 (21.17%) Architect
3 102 (19.81%) Senior
4 71 (13.79%) Lead
5 66 (12.82%) Data Architect
6 65 (12.62%) Analyst
7 64 (12.43%) Developer
8 45 (8.74%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (7.57%) Data Analyst
10 24 (4.66%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (4.47%) Senior Architect
12 21 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.50%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.30%) Consultant
15 16 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 16 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 16 (3.11%) Senior Data Architect
16 15 (2.91%) Salesforce Developer
17 13 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
18 12 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.71%) REST
2 43 (8.35%) PySpark
3 38 (7.38%) Kafka
4 37 (7.18%) Node.js
5 24 (4.66%) Lightning Web Components
5 24 (4.66%) SOAP
6 18 (3.50%) .NET
6 18 (3.50%) JSON
6 18 (3.50%) Middleware
6 18 (3.50%) React
7 17 (3.30%) CSS
8 14 (2.72%) Visualforce
9 12 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (2.33%) XML
10 10 (1.94%) HTML
11 8 (1.55%) Tailwind CSS
12 7 (1.36%) RESTful
12 7 (1.36%) Spring
13 5 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (0.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.29%) Data Structures
2 47 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 26 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.08%) Social Media
5 17 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.14%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.94%) FMCG
10 10 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.75%) Blog
11 9 (1.75%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.55%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.36%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.58%) Windows
2 2 (0.39%) Android
2 2 (0.39%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (46.41%) Analytics
2 170 (33.01%) Business Intelligence
3 168 (32.62%) Data Engineering
4 150 (29.13%) Agile
5 146 (28.35%) Data Architecture
6 145 (28.16%) Data Pipeline
6 145 (28.16%) ETL
7 138 (26.80%) CI/CD
8 124 (24.08%) Decision-Making
9 122 (23.69%) AI
10 120 (23.30%) Data Governance
10 120 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (22.33%) DevOps
12 96 (18.64%) Data Strategy
13 87 (16.89%) Mentoring
14 71 (13.79%) Machine Learning
15 63 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (12.04%) Visualisation
17 57 (11.07%) Validation
18 56 (10.87%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 245 (47.57%) SQL
2 221 (42.91%) Python
3 46 (8.93%) Java
4 44 (8.54%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.44%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (4.66%) Scala
8 23 (4.47%) Apex Code
9 21 (4.08%) T-SQL
10 18 (3.50%) C#
10 18 (3.50%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.94%) 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%) R
15 4 (0.78%) PHP
15 4 (0.78%) SOQL
15 4 (0.78%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 74 (14.37%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.98%) Degree
3 59 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
7 9 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.55%) ACCA
8 8 (1.55%) CIMA
9 6 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
12 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.19%) CBAP
13 1 (0.19%) GIAC
13 1 (0.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (33.79%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.41%) GDPR
3 21 (4.08%) QA
4 13 (2.52%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (5.05%) Docker
2 10 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (7.38%) Terraform
2 10 (1.94%) 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
1 121 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 105 (20.39%) Databricks
3 44 (8.54%) Salesforce
4 35 (6.80%) Oracle
5 34 (6.60%) SAP
6 13 (2.52%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.14%) Google
8 10 (1.94%) Informatica
9 9 (1.75%) IBM
10 6 (1.17%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.17%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.97%) Foundry
12 4 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.58%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.58%) BMC
13 3 (0.58%) Palantir
13 3 (0.58%) Talend
13 3 (0.58%) TOWER Software
14 2 (0.39%) Ab Initio