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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 132 122
Rank change year-on-year +38 -10 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 517 429 851
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.58% 2.78% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.95% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 364 248 630
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £38,725
25th Percentile £52,313 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +1.96% -3.48%
75th Percentile £85,250 £81,563 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -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 16,378 14,566 30,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.83% 94.52% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 8,457 23,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £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% -9.54%

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 18 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 35 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.84%) Apache
2 25 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.32%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.16%) SAS
6 5 (0.97%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.39%) CMS
8 2 (0.39%) Confluence
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 31 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.58%) Blender
3 3 (0.58%) 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 (2.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 222 (42.94%) Azure
2 145 (28.05%) Power Platform
3 125 (24.18%) AWS
4 70 (13.54%) GCP
5 67 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (8.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 39 (7.54%) Snowflake
8 35 (6.77%) Serverless
9 30 (5.80%) dbt
10 29 (5.61%) SaaS
11 27 (5.22%) Amazon S3
12 25 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (4.45%) GitHub
14 19 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (3.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 14 (2.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 13 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.51%) Broadband
2 4 (0.77%) NGN
3 2 (0.39%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (25.34%) Power BI
2 89 (17.21%) Metadata
3 72 (13.93%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (10.25%) Data Lake
5 45 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 45 (8.70%) Tableau
6 39 (7.54%) SQL Server
7 31 (6.00%) Semantic Layer
8 30 (5.80%) BigQuery
9 24 (4.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 23 (4.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (4.06%) MySQL
12 20 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (3.48%) Big Data
13 18 (3.48%) NoSQL
14 17 (3.29%) MongoDB
14 17 (3.29%) SAP BW
15 16 (3.09%) DynamoDB
16 15 (2.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (7.35%) Git
2 18 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.93%) JIRA
4 6 (1.16%) GitLab
5 3 (0.58%) MLflow
6 2 (0.39%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.39%) ERwin
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
1 192 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 134 (25.92%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (24.76%) Finance
4 79 (15.28%) Public Sector
5 75 (14.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (7.74%) Law
7 26 (5.03%) Marketing
8 24 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (4.64%) Retail
9 12 (2.32%) Legal
10 11 (2.13%) Banking
11 10 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.55%) Publishing
13 7 (1.35%) Games
14 4 (0.77%) Billing
14 4 (0.77%) Local Government
15 3 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.58%) Police
15 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (27.85%) Data Engineer
2 120 (23.21%) Architect
3 101 (19.54%) Senior
4 79 (15.28%) Data Architect
5 74 (14.31%) Lead
6 68 (13.15%) Analyst
7 64 (12.38%) Developer
8 39 (7.54%) Data Analyst
8 39 (7.54%) Senior Data Engineer
9 28 (5.42%) Senior Architect
10 25 (4.84%) Lead Data Engineer
11 21 (4.06%) Senior Data Architect
12 19 (3.68%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 16 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 15 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (2.71%) Consultant
16 14 (2.71%) Salesforce Developer
17 13 (2.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.48%) REST
2 41 (7.93%) Node.js
3 38 (7.35%) PySpark
4 35 (6.77%) Kafka
5 22 (4.26%) SOAP
6 21 (4.06%) Lightning Web Components
7 19 (3.68%) JSON
8 18 (3.48%) Middleware
8 18 (3.48%) React
9 17 (3.29%) CSS
10 16 (3.09%) .NET
11 13 (2.51%) Oracle Fusion
11 13 (2.51%) Visualforce
11 13 (2.51%) XML
12 10 (1.93%) HTML
13 8 (1.55%) Spring
13 8 (1.55%) Tailwind CSS
14 7 (1.35%) RESTful
15 6 (1.16%) Spring Boot
16 5 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.64%) Data Structures
2 51 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 27 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.26%) Social Media
5 18 (3.48%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.90%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.93%) FMCG
11 10 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.74%) Blog
12 9 (1.74%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.55%) Data Fabric
14 7 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (1.16%) Reference Data
15 6 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.39%) Linux
1 2 (0.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Android
2 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (45.26%) Analytics
2 171 (33.08%) Business Intelligence
3 164 (31.72%) Data Engineering
4 159 (30.75%) Data Architecture
5 145 (28.05%) Agile
6 139 (26.89%) CI/CD
7 136 (26.31%) AI
8 134 (25.92%) Decision-Making
9 130 (25.15%) ETL
10 129 (24.95%) Data Pipeline
11 124 (23.98%) Data Governance
12 117 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (21.28%) Data Strategy
14 100 (19.34%) DevOps
15 90 (17.41%) Mentoring
16 77 (14.89%) Machine Learning
17 71 (13.73%) Roadmaps
18 68 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
19 65 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 61 (11.80%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 241 (46.62%) SQL
2 209 (40.43%) Python
3 42 (8.12%) Java
3 42 (8.12%) JavaScript
4 29 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (5.03%) TypeScript
6 20 (3.87%) Apex Code
6 20 (3.87%) T-SQL
7 19 (3.68%) Scala
8 16 (3.09%) C#
8 16 (3.09%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.13%) Bash
10 7 (1.35%) Bicep
10 7 (1.35%) Go
11 6 (1.16%) C++
12 5 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.97%) R
13 4 (0.77%) PHP
13 4 (0.77%) SOQL
13 4 (0.77%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.93%) Degree
1 72 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 57 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 25 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.29%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.55%) ACCA
7 8 (1.55%) CIMA
8 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.97%) CIPD
9 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.97%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) IIBA
11 1 (0.19%) CBAP
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (35.40%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.77%) GDPR
3 22 (4.26%) QA
4 13 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.77%) PERC
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.58%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 25 (4.84%) Docker
2 9 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (6.58%) Terraform
2 10 (1.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Ansible
3 3 (0.58%) Packer
4 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 122 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 101 (19.54%) Databricks
3 46 (8.90%) Salesforce
4 38 (7.35%) Oracle
5 35 (6.77%) SAP
6 13 (2.51%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.13%) Google
7 11 (2.13%) Informatica
8 7 (1.35%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.16%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.16%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (0.97%) Foundry
10 5 (0.97%) IBM
11 3 (0.58%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.58%) Palantir
11 3 (0.58%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.39%) iManage
12 2 (0.39%) Planon