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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 118 101
Rank change year-on-year +41 -17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 543 483 844
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 3.09% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.26% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 341 218 641
10th Percentile £45,750 £44,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £64,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% +1.17% -1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,975 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £64,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.97% -0.77% -

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 13,968 14,831 25,724
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.17% 94.86% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,052 8,817 21,328
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,800
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.13% -7.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%

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 16 February 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 34 (6.26%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.60%) Apache
3 15 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.03%) Confluence
5 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.29%) SAS
7 6 (1.10%) CMS
7 6 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.37%) Mendix
8 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
Applications
1 33 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) 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%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.03%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.10%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 338 (62.25%) Azure
2 123 (22.65%) AWS
3 120 (22.10%) Snowflake
4 118 (21.73%) Power Platform
5 98 (18.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 93 (17.13%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (13.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (13.26%) GitHub
9 65 (11.97%) GCP
10 62 (11.42%) dbt
11 49 (9.02%) Serverless
12 47 (8.66%) GitHub Copilot
12 47 (8.66%) SaaS
13 32 (5.89%) Amazon S3
14 28 (5.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 26 (4.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 18 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (2.76%) Power Automate
18 15 (2.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) ADSL
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (33.70%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (19.89%) Power BI
3 81 (14.92%) Data Lake
4 76 (14.00%) Metadata
5 45 (8.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 40 (7.37%) SQL Server
6 40 (7.37%) Tableau
7 30 (5.52%) MySQL
7 30 (5.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 25 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
10 21 (3.87%) BigQuery
11 20 (3.68%) NoSQL
11 20 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
12 17 (3.13%) Relational Database
12 17 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (2.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 16 (2.95%) Data Vault
14 15 (2.76%) Data Mining
14 15 (2.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (7.55%) Git
2 33 (6.08%) JIRA
3 17 (3.13%) ERwin
4 16 (2.95%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.92%) git-flow
5 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 201 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 200 (36.83%) Finance
3 143 (26.34%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.26%) Marketing
7 25 (4.60%) Law
7 25 (4.60%) Retail
8 12 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.03%) Publishing
10 9 (1.66%) Legal
11 8 (1.47%) Banking
12 7 (1.29%) Advertising
13 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.92%) Back Office
14 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.92%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (27.26%) Architect
2 124 (22.84%) Senior
3 113 (20.81%) Data Engineer
4 101 (18.60%) Data Architect
5 65 (11.97%) Developer
6 49 (9.02%) Lead
7 47 (8.66%) Analyst
8 43 (7.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 30 (5.52%) Data Analyst
10 22 (4.05%) Senior Architect
11 21 (3.87%) Lead Data Engineer
12 18 (3.31%) Consultant
12 18 (3.31%) Senior Data Architect
13 17 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
14 16 (2.95%) Salesforce Developer
15 15 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (2.39%) Applications Architect
16 13 (2.39%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (2.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.58%) REST
2 42 (7.73%) SOAP
3 38 (7.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 29 (5.34%) .NET
5 28 (5.16%) Kafka
6 23 (4.24%) PySpark
7 21 (3.87%) Middleware
8 19 (3.50%) JSON
9 16 (2.95%) Visualforce
9 16 (2.95%) XML
10 15 (2.76%) CSS
10 15 (2.76%) React
11 14 (2.58%) HTML
12 9 (1.66%) Node.js
13 8 (1.47%) YAML
14 7 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (1.10%) AWS CDK
15 6 (1.10%) RESTful
16 5 (0.92%) gRPC
16 5 (0.92%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.13%) Product Ownership
2 53 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 33 (6.08%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.84%) FMCG
10 9 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.47%) Reference Data
12 5 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.92%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.74%) Replication
13 4 (0.74%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.55%) e-Learning
14 3 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.29%) Android
2 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (42.73%) Analytics
2 211 (38.86%) Agile
3 177 (32.60%) Data Engineering
4 175 (32.23%) DevOps
5 174 (32.04%) ETL
6 165 (30.39%) CI/CD
7 152 (27.99%) Data Architecture
8 139 (25.60%) Business Intelligence
9 135 (24.86%) Mentoring
10 130 (23.94%) Data Governance
11 129 (23.76%) AI
12 119 (21.92%) Data Pipeline
13 111 (20.44%) Coaching
13 111 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (19.52%) Data Integration
15 97 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 82 (15.10%) Data Management
16 82 (15.10%) Decision-Making
17 81 (14.92%) Asset Management
18 75 (13.81%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 242 (44.57%) SQL
2 207 (38.12%) Python
3 57 (10.50%) JavaScript
4 53 (9.76%) Java
5 45 (8.29%) C#
6 39 (7.18%) Apex Code
7 38 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.34%) PowerShell
9 26 (4.79%) Scala
10 24 (4.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 20 (3.68%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.03%) Bash
13 7 (1.29%) PHP
14 6 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.10%) R
15 3 (0.55%) Swift
16 2 (0.37%) Groovy
16 2 (0.37%) SOQL
16 2 (0.37%) SOSL
16 2 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 93 (17.13%) Degree
2 55 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (9.21%) Security Cleared
4 46 (8.47%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.08%) Azure Certification
6 28 (5.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (4.97%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.21%) ACCA
9 12 (2.21%) CIMA
9 12 (2.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 8 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.74%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
14 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (20.26%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 13 (2.39%) GDPR
3 13 (2.39%) QA
4 12 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.18%) P3O
5 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (6.08%) Terraform
2 5 (0.92%) 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
1 150 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 107 (19.71%) Databricks
3 54 (9.94%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.42%) Google
5 15 (2.76%) Informatica
6 14 (2.58%) MuleSoft
7 12 (2.21%) SAP
8 11 (2.03%) IBM
9 9 (1.66%) Talend
10 8 (1.47%) Oracle
11 4 (0.74%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.74%) Foundry
11 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.55%) BMC
12 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.55%) Palantir
12 3 (0.55%) Sparx
13 2 (0.37%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.37%) Zend