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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 127 155
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 -67
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 549 429 545
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.44% 2.60% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.80% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 389 268 362
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,775
25th Percentile £51,425 £55,833 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -5.40% +6.35%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £84,688
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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -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 6 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 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 23 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (4.01%) Apache
4 12 (2.19%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.91%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.73%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (5.83%) 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 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (38.25%) Azure
2 171 (31.15%) Power Platform
3 111 (20.22%) AWS
4 71 (12.93%) GCP
5 59 (10.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (8.20%) Snowflake
7 41 (7.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.10%) Serverless
9 26 (4.74%) dbt
10 24 (4.37%) GitHub
10 24 (4.37%) SaaS
11 22 (4.01%) Amazon S3
11 22 (4.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.55%) PowerApps
15 13 (2.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 12 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.01%) Broadband
2 4 (0.73%) NGN
3 2 (0.36%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (28.60%) Power BI
2 95 (17.30%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (16.94%) Metadata
4 60 (10.93%) Data Lake
5 45 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (8.20%) Relational Database
6 44 (8.01%) SQL Server
6 44 (8.01%) Tableau
7 35 (6.38%) Semantic Layer
8 33 (6.01%) BigQuery
9 29 (5.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (4.37%) Delta Lake
11 22 (4.01%) Big Data
11 22 (4.01%) MongoDB
12 20 (3.64%) NoSQL
12 20 (3.64%) Star Schema
13 18 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (3.10%) SAP BW
15 16 (2.91%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 43 (7.83%) Git
2 24 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.28%) JIRA
4 6 (1.09%) 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
1 209 (38.07%) Social Skills
2 156 (28.42%) Analytical Skills
3 139 (25.32%) Finance
4 80 (14.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (12.02%) Public Sector
6 46 (8.38%) Law
7 29 (5.28%) Retail
8 25 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (4.19%) Marketing
10 16 (2.91%) Legal
11 15 (2.73%) Banking
12 14 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.28%) Games
15 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Billing
16 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.73%) Military
17 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (27.50%) Data Engineer
2 133 (24.23%) Architect
3 106 (19.31%) Senior
4 89 (16.21%) Data Architect
5 67 (12.20%) Analyst
6 57 (10.38%) Lead
7 53 (9.65%) Developer
8 38 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 32 (5.83%) Data Analyst
10 26 (4.74%) Senior Architect
11 23 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (3.46%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.46%) Senior Data Architect
13 18 (3.28%) Consultant
14 15 (2.73%) Financial Analyst
15 14 (2.55%) Data Modeller
15 14 (2.55%) Software Engineer
16 13 (2.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 13 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (2.37%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.65%) PySpark
2 43 (7.83%) REST
3 36 (6.56%) Node.js
4 30 (5.46%) Kafka
5 16 (2.91%) JSON
5 16 (2.91%) Lightning Web Components
6 14 (2.55%) Middleware
6 14 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (2.37%) CSS
7 13 (2.37%) React
7 13 (2.37%) SOAP
8 12 (2.19%) .NET
9 8 (1.46%) RESTful
9 8 (1.46%) Tailwind CSS
9 8 (1.46%) XML
10 7 (1.28%) Spring
10 7 (1.28%) Visualforce
11 6 (1.09%) Django
11 6 (1.09%) LangChain
11 6 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.29%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 22 (4.01%) Social Media
4 19 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.82%) Blog
8 10 (1.82%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.64%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.64%) Taxonomies
10 8 (1.46%) Data Fabric
10 8 (1.46%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.28%) Replication
11 7 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (46.27%) Analytics
2 205 (37.34%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (32.42%) AI
4 167 (30.42%) Data Engineering
5 166 (30.24%) Data Architecture
6 163 (29.69%) Decision-Making
7 136 (24.77%) Data Pipeline
8 135 (24.59%) Agile
9 131 (23.86%) ETL
10 130 (23.68%) Data Strategy
11 128 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (22.95%) CI/CD
12 126 (22.95%) Data Governance
13 90 (16.39%) Machine Learning
14 83 (15.12%) Roadmaps
15 80 (14.57%) DevOps
16 78 (14.21%) Mentoring
17 76 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 69 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 259 (47.18%) SQL
2 220 (40.07%) Python
3 36 (6.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 35 (6.38%) Java
5 28 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 25 (4.55%) Scala
7 21 (3.83%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.46%) T-SQL
9 18 (3.28%) C#
10 15 (2.73%) Apex Code
10 15 (2.73%) Bicep
11 9 (1.64%) C++
11 9 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.64%) 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 78 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 66 (12.02%) Degree
3 57 (10.38%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.37%) DV Cleared
6 13 (2.37%) SnowPro
7 11 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.64%) CIPD
9 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.36%) IIBA
12 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.18%) CBAP
13 1 (0.18%) CISSP
13 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (36.07%) Data Quality
2 41 (7.47%) GDPR
3 21 (3.83%) QA
4 18 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.73%) IFRS
5 4 (0.73%) IFRS 17
5 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.73%) PERC
5 4 (0.73%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.55%) MiFID
6 3 (0.55%) UCITS
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (5.46%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (7.47%) Terraform
2 14 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 3 (0.55%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 149 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 101 (18.40%) Databricks
3 45 (8.20%) Oracle
4 41 (7.47%) SAP
5 36 (6.56%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.82%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.64%) Google
8 8 (1.46%) Informatica
9 7 (1.28%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (1.09%) Foundry
11 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.73%) Epicor
12 4 (0.73%) IBM
12 4 (0.73%) IFS
12 4 (0.73%) Infor
13 3 (0.55%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.55%) TOWER Software