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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 132 150
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 -62
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 550 428 540
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.43% 2.60% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.79% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 387 267 361
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £51,425 £56,055 £52,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.80% +2.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%

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 18,792 15,324 21,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 92.94% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13,561 9,021 15,723
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +0.34% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 8 August 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 27 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.00%) Apache
2 22 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.91%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.73%) SAS
6 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 31 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.36%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 211 (38.36%) Azure
2 170 (30.91%) Power Platform
3 111 (20.18%) AWS
4 72 (13.09%) GCP
5 60 (10.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 46 (8.36%) Snowflake
7 42 (7.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.09%) Serverless
9 26 (4.73%) dbt
10 24 (4.36%) GitHub
10 24 (4.36%) SaaS
11 23 (4.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 22 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 19 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (2.55%) PowerApps
16 12 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (2.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 11 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.00%) Broadband
2 4 (0.73%) NGN
3 2 (0.36%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (28.36%) Power BI
2 96 (17.45%) Data Warehouse
2 96 (17.45%) Metadata
3 60 (10.91%) Data Lake
4 45 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (8.18%) Relational Database
4 45 (8.18%) SQL Server
4 45 (8.18%) Tableau
5 35 (6.36%) Semantic Layer
6 33 (6.00%) BigQuery
7 29 (5.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 25 (4.55%) Delta Lake
9 23 (4.18%) MongoDB
10 22 (4.00%) Big Data
11 21 (3.82%) NoSQL
11 21 (3.82%) Star Schema
12 17 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 17 (3.09%) Data Vault
12 17 (3.09%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 44 (8.00%) Git
2 24 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.27%) JIRA
4 6 (1.09%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.36%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.36%) ERwin
7 1 (0.18%) Ant
7 1 (0.18%) Mocha
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.18%) Toad
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 208 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 155 (28.18%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (24.91%) Finance
4 80 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (11.82%) Public Sector
6 46 (8.36%) Law
7 29 (5.27%) Retail
8 25 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (4.18%) Marketing
10 16 (2.91%) Legal
11 15 (2.73%) Banking
12 14 (2.55%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.27%) Games
15 6 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Billing
16 5 (0.91%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.91%) Military
17 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
18 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (27.09%) Data Engineer
2 137 (24.91%) Architect
3 107 (19.45%) Senior
4 93 (16.91%) Data Architect
5 66 (12.00%) Analyst
6 55 (10.00%) Lead
7 52 (9.45%) Developer
8 37 (6.73%) Senior Data Engineer
9 31 (5.64%) Data Analyst
10 27 (4.91%) Senior Architect
11 23 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (3.64%) Business Analyst
12 20 (3.64%) Senior Data Architect
13 18 (3.27%) Consultant
14 15 (2.73%) Data Modeller
15 14 (2.55%) Financial Analyst
15 14 (2.55%) Software Engineer
16 13 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 13 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (2.36%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.82%) PySpark
2 42 (7.64%) REST
3 36 (6.55%) Node.js
4 31 (5.64%) Kafka
5 17 (3.09%) JSON
6 15 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (2.36%) CSS
8 13 (2.36%) Middleware
8 13 (2.36%) React
9 12 (2.18%) SOAP
10 11 (2.00%) .NET
11 9 (1.64%) RESTful
12 8 (1.45%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (1.45%) XML
13 7 (1.27%) Spring
14 6 (1.09%) Django
14 6 (1.09%) LangChain
14 6 (1.09%) Spring Boot
14 6 (1.09%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.64%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.18%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.00%) Social Media
5 19 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 11 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.82%) Blog
9 10 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.82%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.64%) Taxonomies
11 8 (1.45%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.45%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.27%) Replication
12 7 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.09%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.36%) Linux
1 2 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (46.55%) Analytics
2 204 (37.09%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (32.73%) AI
4 169 (30.73%) Data Architecture
5 165 (30.00%) Data Engineering
6 163 (29.64%) Decision-Making
7 137 (24.91%) Agile
8 136 (24.73%) Data Pipeline
9 132 (24.00%) Data Strategy
10 131 (23.82%) ETL
11 128 (23.27%) Data Governance
11 128 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (22.91%) CI/CD
13 91 (16.55%) Machine Learning
14 84 (15.27%) Roadmaps
15 80 (14.55%) DevOps
16 79 (14.36%) Mentoring
17 77 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 75 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 69 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 258 (46.91%) SQL
2 219 (39.82%) Python
3 35 (6.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.18%) Java
5 27 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.73%) Scala
7 21 (3.82%) TypeScript
8 19 (3.45%) C#
8 19 (3.45%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.91%) Bicep
10 14 (2.55%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.64%) C++
11 9 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.64%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.45%) R
13 7 (1.27%) Go
14 4 (0.73%) Bash
14 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.55%) Groovy
15 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 66 (12.00%) Degree
3 57 (10.36%) SC Cleared
4 27 (4.91%) Azure Certification
5 21 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.55%) SnowPro
7 12 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.64%) CIPD
10 6 (1.09%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.36%) IIBA
13 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) CBAP
14 1 (0.18%) OCP
14 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (35.64%) Data Quality
2 43 (7.82%) GDPR
3 21 (3.82%) QA
4 18 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS
6 4 (0.73%) IFRS 17
6 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) PERC
6 4 (0.73%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
7 3 (0.55%) UCITS
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (5.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (7.64%) Terraform
2 15 (2.73%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 3 (0.55%) Packer
5 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 151 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 99 (18.00%) Databricks
3 45 (8.18%) Oracle
4 41 (7.45%) SAP
5 35 (6.36%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.64%) Google
6 9 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.45%) Informatica
8 7 (1.27%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 6 (1.09%) Foundry
10 5 (0.91%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.73%) Epicor
11 4 (0.73%) IBM
11 4 (0.73%) IFS
11 4 (0.73%) Infor
12 3 (0.55%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.55%) TOWER Software