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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 154 124
Rank change year-on-year +42 -30 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 579 349 590
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.33% 2.11% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.25% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 412 262 298
10th Percentile £43,801 £48,425 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £53,703
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,724 £67,500 £69,650
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -3.09% +7.15%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £104,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +1.45% +2.22% -

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 20,108 15,510 19,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.68% 88.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 8,405 11,799
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,188
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,015 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 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 25 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.63%) Apache
3 18 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.21%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.52%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.35%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.35%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.52%) Blender
3 3 (0.52%) Maya
4 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.35%) Notion
5 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Finacle
6 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 232 (40.07%) Azure
2 213 (36.79%) Power Platform
3 125 (21.59%) AWS
4 79 (13.64%) GCP
5 69 (11.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 58 (10.02%) Snowflake
7 54 (9.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 39 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (5.18%) dbt
9 30 (5.18%) GitHub
10 29 (5.01%) Serverless
11 28 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
12 27 (4.66%) SaaS
13 25 (4.32%) Amazon S3
13 25 (4.32%) Azure Databricks
14 21 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (3.45%) PowerApps
16 16 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.59%) Power Automate
18 14 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.01%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) 4G
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) ATM
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) NGN
3 1 (0.17%) SMS
3 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (34.72%) Power BI
2 135 (23.32%) Data Warehouse
3 116 (20.03%) Metadata
4 60 (10.36%) Data Lake
5 50 (8.64%) SQL Server
6 49 (8.46%) Tableau
7 45 (7.77%) Relational Database
8 43 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
9 36 (6.22%) Semantic Layer
10 34 (5.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 34 (5.87%) Star Schema
11 30 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (5.18%) Delta Lake
12 29 (5.01%) NoSQL
13 27 (4.66%) BigQuery
14 24 (4.15%) MongoDB
15 22 (3.80%) Big Data
16 21 (3.63%) Data Vault
16 21 (3.63%) DynamoDB
17 19 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (12.61%) Git
2 26 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.25%) JIRA
4 10 (1.73%) GitLab
5 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.52%) ERwin
6 3 (0.52%) Flyway
6 3 (0.52%) MLflow
7 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Ant
8 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.17%) ESLint
8 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
8 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.17%) Storybook
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 209 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 163 (28.15%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (24.53%) Finance
4 76 (13.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 73 (12.61%) Public Sector
6 39 (6.74%) Law
7 33 (5.70%) Retail
8 26 (4.49%) Marketing
9 24 (4.15%) Legal
10 22 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (3.45%) Banking
12 17 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.21%) Police
16 6 (1.04%) Billing
16 6 (1.04%) General Ledger
17 5 (0.86%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.86%) Military
18 4 (0.69%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 153 (26.42%) Data Engineer
2 138 (23.83%) Architect
3 126 (21.76%) Senior
4 100 (17.27%) Data Architect
5 74 (12.78%) Analyst
6 60 (10.36%) Lead
7 47 (8.12%) Developer
8 40 (6.91%) Data Analyst
9 39 (6.74%) Senior Data Engineer
10 31 (5.35%) Senior Architect
11 28 (4.84%) Senior Data Architect
12 22 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (3.63%) Consultant
14 20 (3.45%) Software Engineer
15 16 (2.76%) Business Analyst
16 15 (2.59%) Financial Analyst
17 13 (2.25%) Data Consultant
17 13 (2.25%) Data Modeller
17 13 (2.25%) Databricks Engineer
18 12 (2.07%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (11.57%) PySpark
2 50 (8.64%) Terraform
3 39 (6.74%) Node.js
3 39 (6.74%) REST
4 26 (4.49%) Kafka
5 18 (3.11%) CSS
6 16 (2.76%) JSON
6 16 (2.76%) React
7 15 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (2.25%) Pandas
9 12 (2.07%) Middleware
9 12 (2.07%) Tailwind CSS
10 10 (1.73%) RESTful
11 9 (1.55%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (1.55%) SOAP
12 8 (1.38%) Spring
13 7 (1.21%) .NET
13 7 (1.21%) Spring Boot
14 6 (1.04%) Django
14 6 (1.04%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 69 (11.92%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.94%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 23 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.42%) Social Media
9 12 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.55%) Blog
10 9 (1.55%) Reference Data
11 8 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.21%) Clustering
12 7 (1.21%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.21%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.25%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (48.36%) Analytics
2 248 (42.83%) Business Intelligence
3 209 (36.10%) AI
4 188 (32.47%) Data Architecture
5 174 (30.05%) Decision-Making
6 167 (28.84%) CI/CD
7 163 (28.15%) Agile
8 157 (27.12%) Data Engineering
9 155 (26.77%) ETL
10 151 (26.08%) Data Pipeline
11 147 (25.39%) Data Governance
12 139 (24.01%) Data Strategy
13 132 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (18.65%) DevOps
15 100 (17.27%) Mentoring
15 100 (17.27%) Roadmaps
16 93 (16.06%) Technical Leadership
17 91 (15.72%) Machine Learning
18 90 (15.54%) Stakeholder Management
19 81 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 314 (54.23%) SQL
2 239 (41.28%) Python
3 48 (8.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 30 (5.18%) C#
5 28 (4.84%) Java
6 27 (4.66%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.15%) Scala
9 21 (3.63%) T-SQL
10 20 (3.45%) Bicep
11 14 (2.42%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.73%) Apex Code
12 10 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.21%) R
14 5 (0.86%) Bash
14 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.69%) C++
15 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.52%) Groovy
16 3 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 89 (15.37%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 68 (11.74%) Degree
4 30 (5.18%) Azure Certification
5 25 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.94%) SnowPro
8 14 (2.42%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.55%) CIPD
11 8 (1.38%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.04%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.35%) PMP
16 1 (0.17%) CISSP
16 1 (0.17%) OCP
16 1 (0.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (37.13%) Data Quality
2 54 (9.33%) GDPR
3 33 (5.70%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 14 (2.42%) QA
5 3 (0.52%) IFRS
5 3 (0.52%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.52%) MiFID
5 3 (0.52%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.52%) UCITS
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) COPPA
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.17%) IASME
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.17%) PMO
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (6.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.35%) NFS
3 2 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.86%) Ansible
3 3 (0.52%) Packer
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.35%) SQL Sentry
5 1 (0.17%) Consul
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 188 (32.47%) Microsoft
2 100 (17.27%) Databricks
3 42 (7.25%) Oracle
4 30 (5.18%) SAP
5 25 (4.32%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.11%) Informatica
7 13 (2.25%) Google
8 11 (1.90%) Talend
9 7 (1.21%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.21%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.04%) Infor
10 6 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.86%) Foundry
11 5 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.86%) Workday
12 4 (0.69%) Braze
12 4 (0.69%) Epicor
12 4 (0.69%) IFS
12 4 (0.69%) RedGate
13 3 (0.52%) Dynatrace