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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 98 119
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 -22
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 542 420 835
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 3.12% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.29% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 349 219 637
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,034 £37,379
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £98,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%

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 15,001 12,760 29,642
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 94.74% 91.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10,522 8,867 23,508
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +5.22% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 29 April 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 40 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (4.98%) Apache
3 25 (4.61%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.48%) SAS
6 7 (1.29%) Confluence
7 6 (1.11%) CMS
8 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
Applications
1 29 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.55%) Sketch
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Notion
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (1.85%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.74%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 288 (53.14%) Azure
2 127 (23.43%) Power Platform
3 121 (22.32%) AWS
4 91 (16.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 84 (15.50%) Snowflake
6 74 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (10.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 57 (10.52%) GCP
8 51 (9.41%) dbt
9 49 (9.04%) GitHub
10 45 (8.30%) Serverless
11 30 (5.54%) Amazon S3
11 30 (5.54%) GitHub Copilot
12 28 (5.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 25 (4.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 22 (4.06%) SaaS
15 20 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.77%) Power Automate
18 14 (2.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.17%) Broadband
2 3 (0.55%) NGN
3 1 (0.18%) 4G
3 1 (0.18%) 5G
3 1 (0.18%) ADSL
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
3 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (21.96%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (20.85%) Power BI
3 77 (14.21%) Metadata
4 69 (12.73%) Data Lake
5 47 (8.67%) Tableau
6 38 (7.01%) Relational Database
7 37 (6.83%) SQL Server
8 31 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (4.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (4.24%) MySQL
11 20 (3.69%) BigQuery
12 19 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (3.32%) Delta Lake
13 18 (3.32%) SAP BW
14 17 (3.14%) NoSQL
15 14 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (2.40%) Amazon QuickSight
17 12 (2.21%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (7.20%) Git
2 21 (3.87%) JIRA
3 7 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.74%) ERwin
5 2 (0.37%) MLflow
6 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.18%) git-flow
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Postman
6 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 184 (33.95%) Social Skills
2 176 (32.47%) Finance
3 141 (26.01%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (12.55%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.64%) Law
7 32 (5.90%) Marketing
8 24 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (3.14%) Retail
10 11 (2.03%) Publishing
11 10 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.66%) Banking
12 9 (1.66%) Legal
13 7 (1.29%) Games
14 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.92%) Advertising
15 5 (0.92%) Back Office
16 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 141 (26.01%) Data Engineer
2 129 (23.80%) Architect
3 104 (19.19%) Senior
4 84 (15.50%) Data Architect
5 69 (12.73%) Developer
6 66 (12.18%) Lead
7 63 (11.62%) Analyst
8 39 (7.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.01%) Data Analyst
10 25 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
11 21 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.32%) Salesforce Developer
12 18 (3.32%) Senior Architect
13 17 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (3.14%) Consultant
14 16 (2.95%) Salesforce Engineer
15 15 (2.77%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 12 (2.21%) Senior Data Architect
17 12 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.41%) REST
2 40 (7.38%) PySpark
3 37 (6.83%) Kafka
3 37 (6.83%) Lightning Web Components
4 35 (6.46%) SOAP
5 25 (4.61%) .NET
6 20 (3.69%) Middleware
7 17 (3.14%) Visualforce
8 15 (2.77%) JSON
9 14 (2.58%) Node.js
10 13 (2.40%) React
11 12 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
12 11 (2.03%) CSS
12 11 (2.03%) HTML
12 11 (2.03%) XML
13 8 (1.48%) YAML
14 6 (1.11%) HTML5 Canvas
15 5 (0.92%) gRPC
15 5 (0.92%) RESTful
15 5 (0.92%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.86%) Data Structures
2 43 (7.93%) Product Ownership
3 42 (7.75%) Cloud Native
4 22 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.87%) Social Media
6 18 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.21%) FMCG
11 10 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.85%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.85%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.48%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.11%) Anti-Piracy
15 5 (0.92%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.74%) Android
1 4 (0.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (45.39%) Analytics
2 180 (33.21%) Data Engineering
3 170 (31.37%) Agile
4 167 (30.81%) ETL
5 157 (28.97%) Data Architecture
6 156 (28.78%) Business Intelligence
7 152 (28.04%) DevOps
8 146 (26.94%) Data Pipeline
9 142 (26.20%) CI/CD
10 124 (22.88%) Data Governance
11 111 (20.48%) AI
12 107 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
13 98 (18.08%) Decision-Making
14 90 (16.61%) Mentoring
15 89 (16.42%) Data Integration
16 78 (14.39%) Coaching
17 77 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (13.65%) Data Strategy
19 70 (12.92%) Data Management
20 62 (11.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 236 (43.54%) SQL
2 218 (40.22%) Python
3 51 (9.41%) Java
4 50 (9.23%) JavaScript
5 36 (6.64%) Apex Code
6 30 (5.54%) C#
7 27 (4.98%) Scala
7 27 (4.98%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.61%) PowerShell
9 22 (4.06%) T-SQL
10 20 (3.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (2.03%) Bash
12 7 (1.29%) Go
13 6 (1.11%) C++
14 5 (0.92%) Bicep
14 5 (0.92%) PHP
14 5 (0.92%) R
15 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 81 (14.94%) Degree
2 65 (11.99%) Security Cleared
3 55 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 36 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.61%) Azure Certification
6 20 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.21%) ACCA
9 12 (2.21%) CIMA
10 6 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.37%) IIBA
11 2 (0.37%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.18%) CBAP
12 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (26.75%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.20%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.90%) GDPR
4 20 (3.69%) QA
5 13 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) IFRS
6 3 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.55%) PERC
6 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 14 (2.58%) Docker
2 12 (2.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (7.01%) Terraform
2 9 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) Ansible
3 3 (0.55%) Control-M
3 3 (0.55%) Packer
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 148 (27.31%) Microsoft
2 103 (19.00%) Databricks
3 56 (10.33%) Salesforce
4 33 (6.09%) Oracle
5 30 (5.54%) SAP
6 16 (2.95%) Google
6 16 (2.95%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.03%) IBM
7 11 (2.03%) Informatica
8 6 (1.11%) Foundry
8 6 (1.11%) Talend
9 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.74%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.74%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.74%) Palantir
10 4 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.55%) BMC
11 3 (0.55%) Sparx
12 2 (0.37%) iManage