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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 129 152
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -63
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 547 429 548
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.42% 2.60% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.80% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 387 268 365
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,125 £41,850
25th Percentile £51,425 £56,153 £52,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -3.31% +4.05%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +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 18,735 15,321 22,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.93% 87.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,552 9,025 15,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.02% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
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 7 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 26 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.84%) Apache
4 12 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.73%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 31 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
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 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (38.39%) Azure
2 169 (30.90%) Power Platform
3 110 (20.11%) AWS
4 71 (12.98%) GCP
5 60 (10.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 46 (8.41%) Snowflake
7 42 (7.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (4.94%) Serverless
9 26 (4.75%) dbt
10 24 (4.39%) GitHub
10 24 (4.39%) SaaS
11 23 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 21 (3.84%) Amazon S3
13 18 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.56%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (2.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 11 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.04%) Broadband
2 4 (0.73%) NGN
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (28.34%) Power BI
2 95 (17.37%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (17.00%) Metadata
4 60 (10.97%) Data Lake
5 45 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (8.23%) Relational Database
5 45 (8.23%) SQL Server
6 44 (8.04%) Tableau
7 35 (6.40%) Semantic Layer
8 33 (6.03%) BigQuery
9 29 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 25 (4.57%) Delta Lake
11 23 (4.20%) MongoDB
12 22 (4.02%) Big Data
13 21 (3.84%) NoSQL
13 21 (3.84%) Star Schema
14 17 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (3.11%) Data Vault
14 17 (3.11%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 44 (8.04%) Git
2 24 (4.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.28%) JIRA
4 6 (1.10%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.18%) Ant
6 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.18%) ERwin
6 1 (0.18%) Mocha
6 1 (0.18%) Postman
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.18%) Toad
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 207 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 154 (28.15%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (25.05%) Finance
4 79 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (11.70%) Public Sector
6 45 (8.23%) Law
7 29 (5.30%) Retail
8 25 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (4.20%) Marketing
10 16 (2.93%) Legal
11 15 (2.74%) Banking
12 14 (2.56%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Games
15 6 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Billing
16 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.73%) Military
18 3 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 149 (27.24%) Data Engineer
2 134 (24.50%) Architect
3 106 (19.38%) Senior
4 90 (16.45%) Data Architect
5 66 (12.07%) Analyst
6 55 (10.05%) Lead
7 52 (9.51%) Developer
8 37 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 31 (5.67%) Data Analyst
10 26 (4.75%) Senior Architect
11 23 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (3.66%) Business Analyst
13 19 (3.47%) Senior Data Architect
14 18 (3.29%) Consultant
15 15 (2.74%) Data Modeller
16 14 (2.56%) Financial Analyst
16 14 (2.56%) Software Engineer
17 13 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 13 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
17 13 (2.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.87%) PySpark
2 42 (7.68%) REST
3 36 (6.58%) Node.js
4 30 (5.48%) Kafka
5 17 (3.11%) JSON
6 15 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (2.38%) CSS
8 13 (2.38%) Middleware
8 13 (2.38%) React
9 12 (2.19%) SOAP
10 11 (2.01%) .NET
11 8 (1.46%) RESTful
11 8 (1.46%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (1.46%) XML
12 7 (1.28%) Spring
13 6 (1.10%) Django
13 6 (1.10%) Pandas
13 6 (1.10%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.10%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.69%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.20%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.02%) Social Media
5 19 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.83%) Blog
9 10 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.83%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.65%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.65%) Taxonomies
11 8 (1.46%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.46%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.28%) Replication
12 7 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.37%) Linux
1 2 (0.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (46.44%) Analytics
2 203 (37.11%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (32.91%) AI
4 167 (30.53%) Data Architecture
5 164 (29.98%) Data Engineering
6 162 (29.62%) Decision-Making
7 135 (24.68%) Agile
7 135 (24.68%) Data Pipeline
8 131 (23.95%) Data Strategy
9 130 (23.77%) ETL
10 127 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
11 126 (23.03%) CI/CD
11 126 (23.03%) Data Governance
12 91 (16.64%) Machine Learning
13 83 (15.17%) Roadmaps
14 80 (14.63%) DevOps
15 79 (14.44%) Mentoring
16 76 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 75 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 69 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 258 (47.17%) SQL
2 219 (40.04%) Python
3 35 (6.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.22%) Java
5 27 (4.94%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.75%) Scala
7 21 (3.84%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.47%) C#
8 19 (3.47%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.93%) Bicep
10 14 (2.56%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.65%) C++
11 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.46%) R
13 7 (1.28%) Go
14 4 (0.73%) Bash
14 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.55%) Groovy
15 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 65 (11.88%) Degree
3 56 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.75%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.56%) SnowPro
8 11 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
9 10 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.65%) CIPD
11 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.37%) IIBA
14 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) GIAC
15 1 (0.18%) ICAEW
15 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (35.83%) Data Quality
2 42 (7.68%) GDPR
3 21 (3.84%) QA
4 18 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) PERC
6 4 (0.73%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
7 3 (0.55%) UCITS
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (5.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (7.50%) Terraform
2 14 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 3 (0.55%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 151 (27.61%) Microsoft
2 99 (18.10%) Databricks
3 45 (8.23%) Oracle
4 41 (7.50%) SAP
5 35 (6.40%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.65%) Google
6 9 (1.65%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.46%) Informatica
8 7 (1.28%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.10%) Foundry
10 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.73%) Epicor
11 4 (0.73%) IBM
11 4 (0.73%) IFS
11 4 (0.73%) Infor
12 3 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.55%) TOWER Software