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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 152 134
Rank change year-on-year +35 -18 -44
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 544 359 607
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.33% 2.18% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.34% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 388 276 343
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,875 £42,100
25th Percentile £51,425 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -3.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% +2.23%

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 19,119 15,355 21,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.03% 93.03% 87.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,815 8,958 14,299
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 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 23 (4.23%) Apache
1 23 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 15 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.29%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 34 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.92%) 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%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) 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 (0.18%) Finacle
5 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.18%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 213 (39.15%) Azure
2 183 (33.64%) Power Platform
3 116 (21.32%) AWS
4 68 (12.50%) GCP
5 65 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 45 (8.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 45 (8.27%) Snowflake
7 28 (5.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 27 (4.96%) GitHub
8 27 (4.96%) Serverless
9 26 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (4.41%) Amazon S3
11 23 (4.23%) dbt
11 23 (4.23%) SaaS
12 20 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (3.13%) PowerApps
14 15 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (2.21%) Power Automate
16 11 (2.02%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.17%) Broadband
2 4 (0.74%) NGN
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) ATM
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
4 1 (0.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (31.07%) Power BI
2 105 (19.30%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (17.83%) Metadata
4 58 (10.66%) Data Lake
5 49 (9.01%) Tableau
6 48 (8.82%) Relational Database
7 47 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (8.46%) SQL Server
9 34 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
10 30 (5.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 28 (5.15%) Delta Lake
12 27 (4.96%) MongoDB
12 27 (4.96%) Star Schema
13 25 (4.60%) BigQuery
14 23 (4.23%) NoSQL
15 22 (4.04%) Big Data
16 20 (3.68%) Data Vault
17 19 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
18 18 (3.31%) DynamoDB
19 16 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 53 (9.74%) Git
2 25 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.65%) JIRA
4 7 (1.29%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.37%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.37%) ERwin
7 1 (0.18%) Ant
7 1 (0.18%) Mocha
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Toad
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 204 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 155 (28.49%) Analytical Skills
3 136 (25.00%) Finance
4 75 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 37 (6.80%) Law
7 33 (6.07%) Retail
8 23 (4.23%) Marketing
9 22 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.86%) Banking
11 17 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 16 (2.94%) Legal
13 9 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.29%) Games
16 6 (1.10%) Billing
17 5 (0.92%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.92%) Military
18 4 (0.74%) Health Technology
19 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 140 (25.74%) Data Engineer
2 135 (24.82%) Architect
3 109 (20.04%) Senior
4 98 (18.01%) Data Architect
5 70 (12.87%) Analyst
6 51 (9.38%) Developer
6 51 (9.38%) Lead
7 32 (5.88%) Data Analyst
8 30 (5.51%) Senior Data Engineer
9 28 (5.15%) Senior Architect
10 25 (4.60%) Senior Data Architect
11 23 (4.23%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.13%) Consultant
13 17 (3.13%) Software Engineer
14 15 (2.76%) Financial Analyst
15 14 (2.57%) Data Modeller
15 14 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
16 12 (2.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 12 (2.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.21%) PySpark
2 48 (8.82%) Terraform
3 43 (7.90%) REST
4 39 (7.17%) Node.js
5 25 (4.60%) Kafka
6 17 (3.13%) CSS
7 16 (2.94%) React
8 15 (2.76%) JSON
9 14 (2.57%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (2.39%) Lightning Web Components
11 11 (2.02%) Tailwind CSS
12 10 (1.84%) Middleware
12 10 (1.84%) SOAP
13 9 (1.65%) RESTful
14 8 (1.47%) .NET
14 8 (1.47%) Spring
15 7 (1.29%) Pandas
15 7 (1.29%) Spring Boot
16 6 (1.10%) HTML
16 6 (1.10%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 66 (12.13%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.27%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.13%) Social Media
7 12 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.21%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.02%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.84%) Blog
9 10 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.65%) Taxonomies
11 8 (1.47%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.10%) Windows
2 2 (0.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (46.14%) Analytics
2 220 (40.44%) Business Intelligence
3 191 (35.11%) AI
4 176 (32.35%) Data Architecture
5 162 (29.78%) Decision-Making
6 156 (28.68%) Data Engineering
7 148 (27.21%) Agile
8 139 (25.55%) CI/CD
9 135 (24.82%) Data Pipeline
9 135 (24.82%) Data Strategy
10 133 (24.45%) ETL
11 132 (24.26%) Data Governance
12 129 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
13 97 (17.83%) Machine Learning
14 90 (16.54%) DevOps
15 89 (16.36%) Roadmaps
16 83 (15.26%) Mentoring
17 79 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
18 78 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 74 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 269 (49.45%) SQL
2 216 (39.71%) Python
3 37 (6.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (5.15%) Java
5 26 (4.78%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.41%) Scala
6 24 (4.41%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.04%) C#
8 19 (3.49%) Bicep
9 18 (3.31%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.02%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.47%) Go
13 7 (1.29%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.10%) R
15 5 (0.92%) Bash
16 4 (0.74%) C++
16 4 (0.74%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.55%) Groovy
17 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 60 (11.03%) Degree
3 49 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 29 (5.33%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.13%) SnowPro
7 14 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.65%) CIPD
10 7 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.37%) IIBA
15 1 (0.18%) CBAP
15 1 (0.18%) PMP
15 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (37.32%) Data Quality
2 46 (8.46%) GDPR
3 24 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.41%) QA
4 10 (1.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.74%) IFRS
5 4 (0.74%) IFRS 17
5 4 (0.74%) PERC
5 4 (0.74%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.55%) MiFID
6 3 (0.55%) UCITS
7 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (2.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.74%) Ansible
3 3 (0.55%) Packer
4 1 (0.18%) Consul
4 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 165 (30.33%) Microsoft
2 97 (17.83%) Databricks
3 44 (8.09%) Oracle
4 35 (6.43%) SAP
5 30 (5.51%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.39%) Informatica
7 10 (1.84%) Google
8 7 (1.29%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.10%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.10%) Talend
10 5 (0.92%) Infor
10 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.74%) Epicor
11 4 (0.74%) Foundry
11 4 (0.74%) IBM
11 4 (0.74%) IFS
12 3 (0.55%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg