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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 152 133
Rank change year-on-year +41 -19 -39
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 539 355 610
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.31% 2.16% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.32% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 384 272 345
10th Percentile £43,750 £48,425 £42,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,750 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -1.09% +5.38%
75th Percentile £89,063 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,250 £95,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £68,495
% change year-on-year +3.70% -1.45% +1.47%

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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 September 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 22 (4.08%) Apache
1 22 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.30%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 34 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.56%) Blender
3 3 (0.56%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
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 (0.19%) Finacle
5 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 210 (38.96%) Azure
2 182 (33.77%) Power Platform
3 116 (21.52%) AWS
4 68 (12.62%) GCP
5 64 (11.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 46 (8.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (8.35%) Snowflake
8 28 (5.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 27 (5.01%) GitHub
9 27 (5.01%) Serverless
10 26 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (4.45%) Amazon S3
12 23 (4.27%) dbt
12 23 (4.27%) SaaS
13 22 (4.08%) Azure Databricks
14 20 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.15%) PowerApps
16 15 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.24%) Broadband
2 4 (0.74%) NGN
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) ATM
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
4 1 (0.19%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (31.17%) Power BI
2 105 (19.48%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (18.18%) Metadata
4 57 (10.58%) Data Lake
5 49 (9.09%) Tableau
6 47 (8.72%) PostgreSQL
7 44 (8.16%) Relational Database
7 44 (8.16%) SQL Server
8 34 (6.31%) Semantic Layer
9 30 (5.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 27 (5.01%) Delta Lake
10 27 (5.01%) MongoDB
11 26 (4.82%) Star Schema
12 25 (4.64%) BigQuery
13 23 (4.27%) NoSQL
14 22 (4.08%) Big Data
15 20 (3.71%) Data Vault
16 18 (3.34%) Azure SQL Database
16 18 (3.34%) DynamoDB
17 16 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 52 (9.65%) Git
2 25 (4.64%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.67%) JIRA
4 7 (1.30%) GitLab
5 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.56%) MLflow
5 3 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.37%) ERwin
7 1 (0.19%) Ant
7 1 (0.19%) Mocha
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Toad
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 205 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 153 (28.39%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (25.05%) Finance
4 75 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (12.06%) Public Sector
6 37 (6.86%) Law
7 33 (6.12%) Retail
8 23 (4.27%) Marketing
9 22 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.90%) Banking
11 17 (3.15%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.97%) Legal
13 9 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.30%) Games
16 6 (1.11%) Billing
17 5 (0.93%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.93%) Military
18 4 (0.74%) Health Technology
19 3 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 136 (25.23%) Architect
1 136 (25.23%) Data Engineer
2 110 (20.41%) Senior
3 98 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 69 (12.80%) Analyst
5 51 (9.46%) Lead
6 50 (9.28%) Developer
7 32 (5.94%) Data Analyst
8 30 (5.57%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (5.38%) Senior Architect
10 26 (4.82%) Senior Data Architect
11 23 (4.27%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.34%) Consultant
14 17 (3.15%) Software Engineer
15 15 (2.78%) Financial Analyst
16 14 (2.60%) Data Modeller
16 14 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
17 12 (2.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 12 (2.23%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.32%) PySpark
2 47 (8.72%) Terraform
3 42 (7.79%) REST
4 38 (7.05%) Node.js
5 24 (4.45%) Kafka
6 17 (3.15%) CSS
7 15 (2.78%) JSON
7 15 (2.78%) React
8 14 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (2.23%) Lightning Web Components
10 11 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
11 10 (1.86%) Middleware
11 10 (1.86%) SOAP
12 9 (1.67%) RESTful
13 8 (1.48%) .NET
13 8 (1.48%) Spring
14 7 (1.30%) Pandas
14 7 (1.30%) Spring Boot
15 6 (1.11%) HTML
15 6 (1.11%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 65 (12.06%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.35%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.15%) Social Media
6 12 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.23%) Low-Code
6 12 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.86%) Blog
8 10 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.67%) Taxonomies
10 8 (1.48%) Reference Data
11 7 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.11%) Windows
2 2 (0.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (45.64%) Analytics
2 218 (40.45%) Business Intelligence
3 192 (35.62%) AI
4 177 (32.84%) Data Architecture
5 161 (29.87%) Decision-Making
6 152 (28.20%) Data Engineering
7 149 (27.64%) Agile
8 139 (25.79%) CI/CD
9 135 (25.05%) Data Strategy
10 132 (24.49%) Data Governance
10 132 (24.49%) Data Pipeline
11 130 (24.12%) ETL
12 128 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
13 96 (17.81%) Machine Learning
14 91 (16.88%) DevOps
14 91 (16.88%) Roadmaps
15 84 (15.58%) Mentoring
16 81 (15.03%) Technical Leadership
17 76 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 75 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 266 (49.35%) SQL
2 215 (39.89%) Python
3 37 (6.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (5.19%) Java
5 25 (4.64%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.45%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.27%) Scala
8 22 (4.08%) C#
9 18 (3.34%) Bicep
10 17 (3.15%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.04%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.48%) Go
14 7 (1.30%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.11%) R
16 5 (0.93%) Bash
17 4 (0.74%) C++
17 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.56%) Groovy
18 3 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 59 (10.95%) Degree
3 49 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 28 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.15%) SnowPro
7 16 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.67%) CIPD
11 7 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.11%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.37%) IIBA
16 1 (0.19%) CBAP
16 1 (0.19%) CITP
16 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (36.92%) Data Quality
2 44 (8.16%) GDPR
3 25 (4.64%) Accessibility
4 24 (4.45%) QA
5 10 (1.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.74%) PERC
6 4 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.56%) MiFID
7 3 (0.56%) UCITS
8 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (6.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.74%) Ansible
3 3 (0.56%) Packer
4 1 (0.19%) Consul
4 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 163 (30.24%) Microsoft
2 97 (18.00%) Databricks
3 42 (7.79%) Oracle
4 35 (6.49%) SAP
5 29 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.41%) Informatica
7 10 (1.86%) Google
8 7 (1.30%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.11%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.11%) Talend
10 5 (0.93%) Infor
10 5 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.74%) Epicor
11 4 (0.74%) Foundry
11 4 (0.74%) IBM
11 4 (0.74%) IFS
12 3 (0.56%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.56%) TOWER Software