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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 134 119
Rank change year-on-year +43 -15 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 522 418 835
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.72% 2.82% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.97% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 366 238 622
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £37,600
25th Percentile £51,425 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,400
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.61% -3.11%

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 15,829 14,071 30,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.52% 94.77% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11,309 8,239 23,590
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 3 June 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 38 (7.28%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.98%) Apache
2 26 (4.98%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.15%) SAS
6 5 (0.96%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.57%) CMS
7 3 (0.57%) Confluence
7 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
Applications
1 28 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Blender
3 3 (0.57%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Sketch
4 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.34%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.57%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 240 (45.98%) Azure
2 140 (26.82%) Power Platform
3 127 (24.33%) AWS
4 81 (15.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 63 (12.07%) GCP
6 52 (9.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (8.62%) Snowflake
8 39 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (7.47%) Serverless
9 37 (7.09%) dbt
10 33 (6.32%) GitHub
11 31 (5.94%) Amazon S3
12 25 (4.79%) SaaS
13 20 (3.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (3.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 15 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.30%) Power Automate
18 12 (2.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.47%) Broadband
2 3 (0.57%) NGN
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (23.95%) Power BI
2 80 (15.33%) Metadata
3 78 (14.94%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (12.07%) Data Lake
5 44 (8.43%) Relational Database
6 43 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
6 43 (8.24%) Tableau
7 37 (7.09%) SQL Server
8 27 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 26 (4.98%) BigQuery
10 25 (4.79%) Semantic Layer
11 21 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (4.02%) MySQL
11 21 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (3.45%) Big Data
12 18 (3.45%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.26%) MongoDB
13 17 (3.26%) SAP BW
14 16 (3.07%) DynamoDB
15 15 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (7.66%) Git
2 16 (3.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.72%) JIRA
4 6 (1.15%) GitLab
5 3 (0.57%) ER Studio
5 3 (0.57%) ERwin
6 2 (0.38%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Ant
7 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) Toad
7 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 191 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 144 (27.59%) Finance
3 139 (26.63%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (15.33%) Public Sector
5 67 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.28%) Law
7 25 (4.79%) Marketing
8 24 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (4.41%) Retail
10 12 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.30%) Legal
11 11 (2.11%) Banking
12 8 (1.53%) Publishing
13 7 (1.34%) Games
13 7 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.77%) Billing
15 4 (0.77%) Local Government
16 3 (0.57%) Humanities
16 3 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 154 (29.50%) Data Engineer
2 111 (21.26%) Architect
3 103 (19.73%) Senior
4 72 (13.79%) Lead
5 65 (12.45%) Data Architect
6 63 (12.07%) Analyst
6 63 (12.07%) Developer
7 44 (8.43%) Senior Data Engineer
8 39 (7.47%) Data Analyst
9 24 (4.60%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (4.41%) Senior Architect
11 21 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.26%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.26%) Consultant
13 16 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 16 (3.07%) Senior Data Architect
14 15 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 15 (2.87%) Salesforce Developer
15 13 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (2.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.96%) REST
2 42 (8.05%) PySpark
3 37 (7.09%) Kafka
3 37 (7.09%) Node.js
4 26 (4.98%) Lightning Web Components
4 26 (4.98%) SOAP
5 18 (3.45%) .NET
5 18 (3.45%) JSON
5 18 (3.45%) Middleware
5 18 (3.45%) React
6 17 (3.26%) CSS
7 14 (2.68%) Visualforce
8 12 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
8 12 (2.30%) XML
9 10 (1.92%) HTML
10 8 (1.53%) Spring
10 8 (1.53%) Tailwind CSS
11 7 (1.34%) RESTful
12 6 (1.15%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.96%) Data Structures
2 48 (9.20%) Cloud Native
3 29 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.02%) Social Media
5 19 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (2.11%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.92%) FMCG
10 10 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.72%) Blog
11 9 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.72%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.53%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.34%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.77%) Windows
2 2 (0.38%) Android
2 2 (0.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (45.40%) Analytics
2 168 (32.18%) Data Engineering
3 163 (31.23%) Business Intelligence
4 155 (29.69%) Agile
5 147 (28.16%) ETL
6 145 (27.78%) Data Architecture
6 145 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
7 143 (27.39%) CI/CD
8 125 (23.95%) AI
9 123 (23.56%) Decision-Making
10 122 (23.37%) DevOps
11 120 (22.99%) Data Governance
12 119 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
13 95 (18.20%) Data Strategy
14 89 (17.05%) Mentoring
15 70 (13.41%) Machine Learning
16 63 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (11.69%) Visualisation
18 58 (11.11%) Validation
19 57 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 247 (47.32%) SQL
2 224 (42.91%) Python
3 49 (9.39%) Java
4 46 (8.81%) JavaScript
5 30 (5.75%) TypeScript
6 27 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (4.79%) Apex Code
8 23 (4.41%) Scala
9 21 (4.02%) T-SQL
10 20 (3.83%) C#
10 20 (3.83%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.92%) Bash
12 7 (1.34%) Go
13 6 (1.15%) C++
14 5 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.96%) R
15 4 (0.77%) Bicep
15 4 (0.77%) PHP
15 4 (0.77%) SOQL
15 4 (0.77%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 74 (14.18%) Degree
1 74 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 59 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.87%) TOGAF Certification
6 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.53%) ACCA
7 8 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.53%) CIMA
8 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.57%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.38%) IIBA
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) GIAC
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.19%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (32.95%) Data Quality
2 33 (6.32%) GDPR
3 21 (4.02%) QA
4 13 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.57%) IFRS
5 3 (0.57%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.57%) PERC
5 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) HL7
6 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 27 (5.17%) Docker
2 11 (2.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (7.28%) Terraform
2 11 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.57%) Ansible
3 3 (0.57%) Control-M
3 3 (0.57%) Packer
4 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 123 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 105 (20.11%) Databricks
3 46 (8.81%) Salesforce
4 34 (6.51%) SAP
5 33 (6.32%) Oracle
6 13 (2.49%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.11%) Google
8 10 (1.92%) IBM
8 10 (1.92%) Informatica
9 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.15%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.96%) Foundry
12 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.57%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.57%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.57%) BMC
13 3 (0.57%) Palantir
13 3 (0.57%) Talend
13 3 (0.57%) TOWER Software