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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 136 130
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 538 439 746
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.54% 2.68% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.86% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 391 268 547
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,950
25th Percentile £51,425 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
75th Percentile £86,125 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £69,973 £65,000 £67,900
% change year-on-year +7.65% -4.27% +0.59%

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 17,569 15,347 29,009
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.87% 93.54% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,813 9,109 22,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 9 July 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 29 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.83%) Apache Spark
3 23 (4.28%) Apache
4 13 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.12%) SAS
7 5 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.56%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 34 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.30%) 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%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.93%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 221 (41.08%) Azure
2 163 (30.30%) Power Platform
3 116 (21.56%) AWS
4 73 (13.57%) GCP
5 63 (11.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 40 (7.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (7.25%) Snowflake
8 31 (5.76%) SaaS
9 30 (5.58%) Serverless
10 26 (4.83%) dbt
11 23 (4.28%) Amazon S3
12 20 (3.72%) GitHub
13 19 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (3.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 14 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
17 13 (2.42%) PowerApps
18 12 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.18%) 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%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (27.32%) Power BI
2 91 (16.91%) Metadata
3 86 (15.99%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (10.04%) Data Lake
5 48 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (8.18%) Relational Database
6 44 (8.18%) SQL Server
7 41 (7.62%) Tableau
8 33 (6.13%) Semantic Layer
9 30 (5.58%) BigQuery
9 30 (5.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (3.90%) MySQL
11 20 (3.72%) Big Data
11 20 (3.72%) MongoDB
11 20 (3.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 19 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (3.53%) Star Schema
13 17 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (3.16%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.16%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 34 (6.32%) Git
2 19 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.30%) JIRA
4 6 (1.12%) GitLab
5 3 (0.56%) MLflow
6 1 (0.19%) Ant
6 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.19%) ERwin
6 1 (0.19%) Mocha
6 1 (0.19%) Postman
6 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.19%) Toad
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 200 (37.17%) Social Skills
2 143 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (23.98%) Finance
4 81 (15.06%) Public Sector
5 74 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.06%) Law
7 27 (5.02%) Retail
8 25 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (3.72%) Marketing
10 13 (2.42%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.23%) Banking
12 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.86%) Legal
14 7 (1.30%) Games
15 5 (0.93%) Local Government
15 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.93%) Publishing
16 4 (0.74%) Billing
16 4 (0.74%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 150 (27.88%) Data Engineer
2 128 (23.79%) Architect
3 107 (19.89%) Senior
4 86 (15.99%) Data Architect
5 72 (13.38%) Analyst
6 71 (13.20%) Lead
7 64 (11.90%) Developer
8 42 (7.81%) Senior Data Engineer
9 39 (7.25%) Data Analyst
10 33 (6.13%) Senior Architect
11 26 (4.83%) Senior Data Architect
12 21 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (3.72%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 19 (3.53%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.53%) Lead Data Engineer
15 16 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 15 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
17 14 (2.60%) Consultant
18 13 (2.42%) Software Engineer
18 13 (2.42%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.55%) REST
2 42 (7.81%) PySpark
3 39 (7.25%) Node.js
4 33 (6.13%) Kafka
5 20 (3.72%) Middleware
6 19 (3.53%) JSON
6 19 (3.53%) Lightning Web Components
7 18 (3.35%) SOAP
8 15 (2.79%) .NET
8 15 (2.79%) CSS
8 15 (2.79%) React
9 14 (2.60%) Oracle Fusion
10 12 (2.23%) Visualforce
10 12 (2.23%) XML
11 9 (1.67%) RESTful
12 8 (1.49%) HTML
12 8 (1.49%) Spring
12 8 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (1.12%) LangChain
13 6 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.85%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.09%) Social Media
5 19 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.79%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.86%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.67%) Blog
10 9 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.49%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.49%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.30%) FMCG
12 7 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Android
2 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (44.42%) Analytics
2 186 (34.57%) Business Intelligence
3 166 (30.86%) Data Architecture
4 164 (30.48%) Data Engineering
5 157 (29.18%) Decision-Making
6 146 (27.14%) AI
7 140 (26.02%) Agile
8 133 (24.72%) CI/CD
9 132 (24.54%) ETL
10 130 (24.16%) Data Pipeline
11 125 (23.23%) Data Governance
12 124 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
13 121 (22.49%) Data Strategy
14 92 (17.10%) DevOps
15 91 (16.91%) Mentoring
16 80 (14.87%) Roadmaps
17 78 (14.50%) Machine Learning
18 72 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 71 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
20 62 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 247 (45.91%) SQL
2 202 (37.55%) Python
3 38 (7.06%) Java
4 37 (6.88%) JavaScript
5 34 (6.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.28%) T-SQL
7 22 (4.09%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.53%) Scala
9 18 (3.35%) Apex Code
10 15 (2.79%) C#
10 15 (2.79%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.86%) Bicep
12 8 (1.49%) C++
12 8 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.30%) Bash
13 7 (1.30%) Go
14 5 (0.93%) R
15 4 (0.74%) PHP
15 4 (0.74%) SOQL
15 4 (0.74%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 75 (13.94%) Security Cleared
2 70 (13.01%) Degree
3 57 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 14 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (1.67%) CIPD
9 8 (1.49%) SnowPro
10 6 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.93%) ACCA
11 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.93%) CIMA
12 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.37%) IIBA
14 1 (0.19%) CBAP
14 1 (0.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (35.32%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.43%) GDPR
3 23 (4.28%) QA
4 12 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.74%) PERC
6 3 (0.56%) IFRS
6 3 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.56%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (4.83%) Docker
2 8 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (6.32%) Terraform
2 12 (2.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.74%) Ansible
4 3 (0.56%) Packer
5 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 138 (25.65%) Microsoft
2 98 (18.22%) Databricks
3 44 (8.18%) Oracle
4 42 (7.81%) Salesforce
5 38 (7.06%) SAP
6 15 (2.79%) Google
7 12 (2.23%) Informatica
7 12 (2.23%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.49%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.30%) Foundry
10 6 (1.12%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.74%) Epicor
11 4 (0.74%) IBM
11 4 (0.74%) IFS
11 4 (0.74%) Infor
12 3 (0.56%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.56%) Palantir
12 3 (0.56%) TOWER Software