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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 112 103
Rank change year-on-year +36 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 541 464 843
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 2.96% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.13% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 336 216 645
10th Percentile £45,375 £44,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,716 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% +1.96% -1.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,625 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £64,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.55% -0.38% -

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 14,010 14,842 25,591
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.46% 94.70% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,916 8,853 21,164
10th Percentile £30,165 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.69% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 11 February 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 35 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.62%) Apache
3 16 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.03%) Confluence
5 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.11%) CMS
6 6 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.74%) SAS
8 2 (0.37%) Mendix
8 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
9 1 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 33 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.11%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.55%) Sketch
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Notion
5 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.03%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.11%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 335 (61.92%) Azure
2 125 (23.11%) AWS
3 119 (22.00%) Snowflake
4 117 (21.63%) Power Platform
5 97 (17.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 94 (17.38%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (13.49%) GitHub
8 72 (13.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 63 (11.65%) dbt
9 63 (11.65%) GCP
10 49 (9.06%) Serverless
11 48 (8.87%) GitHub Copilot
12 46 (8.50%) SaaS
13 32 (5.91%) Amazon S3
14 27 (4.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 25 (4.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 17 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.77%) Power Automate
17 15 (2.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) ADSL
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (33.46%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (19.78%) Power BI
3 78 (14.42%) Data Lake
4 73 (13.49%) Metadata
5 45 (8.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (7.39%) Tableau
7 39 (7.21%) SQL Server
8 29 (5.36%) MySQL
8 29 (5.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 23 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
10 22 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (3.88%) NoSQL
12 20 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
13 18 (3.33%) BigQuery
13 18 (3.33%) Relational Database
14 17 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (2.96%) Data Vault
16 15 (2.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 15 (2.77%) Data Mining
17 14 (2.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (7.58%) Git
2 34 (6.28%) JIRA
3 18 (3.33%) ERwin
4 17 (3.14%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.92%) git-flow
5 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 202 (37.34%) Finance
2 199 (36.78%) Social Skills
3 145 (26.80%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.10%) Marketing
7 25 (4.62%) Law
7 25 (4.62%) Retail
8 12 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.03%) Publishing
10 9 (1.66%) Banking
10 9 (1.66%) Legal
11 7 (1.29%) Advertising
12 6 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.92%) Back Office
13 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 5 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 146 (26.99%) Architect
2 121 (22.37%) Senior
3 113 (20.89%) Data Engineer
4 101 (18.67%) Data Architect
5 65 (12.01%) Developer
6 49 (9.06%) Lead
7 47 (8.69%) Analyst
8 42 (7.76%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (5.36%) Data Analyst
10 22 (4.07%) Lead Data Engineer
11 19 (3.51%) Senior Architect
12 18 (3.33%) Consultant
12 18 (3.33%) Senior Data Architect
12 18 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (2.77%) Salesforce Developer
15 14 (2.59%) Data Modeller
16 13 (2.40%) Applications Architect
16 13 (2.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.43%) REST
2 41 (7.58%) SOAP
3 37 (6.84%) Lightning Web Components
4 29 (5.36%) Kafka
5 28 (5.18%) .NET
6 23 (4.25%) PySpark
7 20 (3.70%) Middleware
8 18 (3.33%) JSON
9 15 (2.77%) CSS
9 15 (2.77%) React
9 15 (2.77%) Visualforce
9 15 (2.77%) XML
10 14 (2.59%) HTML
11 10 (1.85%) Node.js
12 8 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.48%) YAML
13 6 (1.11%) AWS CDK
13 6 (1.11%) RESTful
14 5 (0.92%) gRPC
14 5 (0.92%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.98%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.10%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.85%) FMCG
9 10 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.48%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.92%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.74%) Replication
14 4 (0.74%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.55%) e-Learning
15 3 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.29%) Android
2 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (42.14%) Analytics
2 213 (39.37%) Agile
3 177 (32.72%) ETL
4 176 (32.53%) Data Engineering
4 176 (32.53%) DevOps
5 165 (30.50%) CI/CD
6 152 (28.10%) Data Architecture
7 137 (25.32%) Business Intelligence
8 133 (24.58%) Mentoring
9 132 (24.40%) Data Governance
10 129 (23.84%) AI
11 119 (22.00%) Data Pipeline
12 113 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (20.33%) Coaching
14 107 (19.78%) Data Integration
15 97 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 82 (15.16%) Asset Management
16 82 (15.16%) Data Management
17 81 (14.97%) Decision-Making
18 76 (14.05%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 244 (45.10%) SQL
2 208 (38.45%) Python
3 56 (10.35%) JavaScript
4 54 (9.98%) Java
5 46 (8.50%) C#
6 38 (7.02%) Apex Code
6 38 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 28 (5.18%) PowerShell
8 27 (4.99%) Scala
9 24 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (3.51%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.03%) Bash
12 7 (1.29%) PHP
13 6 (1.11%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.11%) R
14 3 (0.55%) Swift
15 2 (0.37%) Bicep
15 2 (0.37%) Go
15 2 (0.37%) SOQL
15 2 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 94 (17.38%) Degree
2 56 (10.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (8.87%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.32%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.10%) Azure Certification
6 28 (5.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (4.99%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.22%) ACCA
9 12 (2.22%) CIMA
9 12 (2.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 8 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.11%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.74%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.18%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.18%) PhD
14 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.32%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
3 13 (2.40%) GDPR
3 13 (2.40%) QA
4 11 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.18%) P3O
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (2.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (6.28%) Terraform
2 5 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 149 (27.54%) Microsoft
2 105 (19.41%) Databricks
3 53 (9.80%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.44%) Google
5 15 (2.77%) Informatica
6 13 (2.40%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.22%) SAP
8 11 (2.03%) IBM
9 9 (1.66%) Talend
10 8 (1.48%) Oracle
11 4 (0.74%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.74%) Foundry
11 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.55%) BMC
12 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.55%) Palantir
12 3 (0.55%) Sparx
13 2 (0.37%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.37%) Zend