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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 109 110
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 547 406 841
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 3.11% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.27% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 343 207 630
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,150 £39,975
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,000 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -0.40% -3.20%
75th Percentile £86,875 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,410 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 14,370 12,407 28,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.57% 95.09% 91.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,532 8,764 23,078
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,763
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 24 March 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 42 (7.68%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.39%) Apache
3 18 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.83%) Confluence
5 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.46%) SAS
5 8 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.10%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) Mendix
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.10%) 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%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.83%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.10%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 324 (59.23%) Azure
2 126 (23.03%) AWS
3 116 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 111 (20.29%) Snowflake
5 106 (19.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 87 (15.90%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (13.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 69 (12.61%) GCP
9 65 (11.88%) GitHub
10 61 (11.15%) dbt
11 44 (8.04%) Serverless
12 40 (7.31%) GitHub Copilot
13 32 (5.85%) Amazon S3
13 32 (5.85%) SaaS
13 32 (5.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 29 (5.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 18 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
16 17 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.93%) Broadband
2 3 (0.55%) NGN
3 1 (0.18%) ADSL
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
3 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (28.70%) Data Warehouse
2 109 (19.93%) Power BI
3 77 (14.08%) Metadata
4 69 (12.61%) Data Lake
5 47 (8.59%) SQL Server
6 43 (7.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (7.31%) Tableau
8 30 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (5.30%) Relational Database
10 27 (4.94%) MySQL
11 25 (4.57%) BigQuery
12 23 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 21 (3.84%) NoSQL
14 20 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (2.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 15 (2.74%) Delta Lake
15 15 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
16 13 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
17 11 (2.01%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 38 (6.95%) Git
2 28 (5.12%) JIRA
3 12 (2.19%) ERwin
4 10 (1.83%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.91%) git-flow
6 4 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 192 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 191 (34.92%) Finance
3 143 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.33%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.03%) Marketing
7 32 (5.85%) Law
8 21 (3.84%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (3.84%) Retail
9 12 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.01%) Publishing
11 10 (1.83%) Banking
12 9 (1.65%) Legal
13 7 (1.28%) Advertising
13 7 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Games
14 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.91%) Back Office
15 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 139 (25.41%) Architect
2 124 (22.67%) Data Engineer
3 118 (21.57%) Senior
4 94 (17.18%) Data Architect
5 71 (12.98%) Developer
6 55 (10.05%) Analyst
6 55 (10.05%) Lead
7 45 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 34 (6.22%) Data Analyst
9 22 (4.02%) Lead Data Engineer
10 20 (3.66%) Salesforce Developer
11 19 (3.47%) Consultant
11 19 (3.47%) Senior Architect
12 18 (3.29%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (2.74%) Business Analyst
14 15 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (2.56%) Senior Data Architect
15 14 (2.56%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.79%) REST
2 43 (7.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 43 (7.86%) SOAP
3 32 (5.85%) Kafka
4 29 (5.30%) .NET
5 27 (4.94%) PySpark
6 24 (4.39%) Middleware
7 19 (3.47%) Visualforce
8 16 (2.93%) React
9 15 (2.74%) JSON
10 14 (2.56%) CSS
11 13 (2.38%) HTML
12 11 (2.01%) XML
13 10 (1.83%) Node.js
14 8 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (1.46%) YAML
15 6 (1.10%) RESTful
15 6 (1.10%) Vue
16 5 (0.91%) gRPC
16 5 (0.91%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.60%) Product Ownership
2 49 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 38 (6.95%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.19%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.83%) FMCG
10 10 (1.83%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.65%) Social Media
12 7 (1.28%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.10%) Anti-Piracy
14 5 (0.91%) Reference Data
14 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
15 4 (0.73%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.73%) Android
1 4 (0.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (45.16%) Analytics
2 195 (35.65%) Agile
3 187 (34.19%) Data Engineering
4 170 (31.08%) ETL
5 163 (29.80%) DevOps
6 157 (28.70%) CI/CD
7 151 (27.61%) Data Architecture
8 143 (26.14%) Business Intelligence
9 131 (23.95%) AI
10 129 (23.58%) Data Pipeline
11 128 (23.40%) Data Governance
12 116 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
13 108 (19.74%) Mentoring
14 101 (18.46%) Data Integration
15 99 (18.10%) Decision-Making
16 97 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
17 93 (17.00%) Coaching
18 82 (14.99%) Data Management
19 74 (13.53%) Asset Management
20 69 (12.61%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 233 (42.60%) SQL
2 212 (38.76%) Python
3 55 (10.05%) JavaScript
4 52 (9.51%) Java
5 42 (7.68%) Apex Code
6 36 (6.58%) C#
7 32 (5.85%) TypeScript
8 26 (4.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 25 (4.57%) PowerShell
9 25 (4.57%) Scala
10 21 (3.84%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.01%) Bash
12 8 (1.46%) Go
13 7 (1.28%) PHP
14 6 (1.10%) C++
14 6 (1.10%) R
15 3 (0.55%) Bicep
15 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 91 (16.64%) Degree
2 58 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 52 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (5.30%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 21 (3.84%) AWS Certification
8 20 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.19%) ACCA
10 12 (2.19%) CIMA
10 12 (2.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 7 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.37%) SAP Certification
15 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (23.03%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.23%) Accessibility
3 24 (4.39%) GDPR
3 24 (4.39%) QA
4 13 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) PERC
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.18%) P3O
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (2.19%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (6.22%) Terraform
2 5 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 154 (28.15%) Microsoft
2 104 (19.01%) Databricks
3 62 (11.33%) Salesforce
4 23 (4.20%) Google
5 18 (3.29%) MuleSoft
6 16 (2.93%) Oracle
7 15 (2.74%) IBM
7 15 (2.74%) Informatica
7 15 (2.74%) SAP
8 9 (1.65%) Talend
9 4 (0.73%) Ab Initio
9 4 (0.73%) Foundry
9 4 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.73%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.55%) BMC
10 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.55%) Sparx
11 2 (0.37%) iManage
11 2 (0.37%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.37%) Planon