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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 144 129
Rank change year-on-year +28 -15 -34
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 582 361 558
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.34% 2.18% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.33% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 409 269 282
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £42,050
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -3.57% +7.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +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 20,087 15,504 18,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.59% 93.81% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,255 8,362 11,176
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 12 October 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 26 (4.47%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.78%) Apache
3 21 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (2.23%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.37%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.52%) Confluence
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.34%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 40 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.72%) Notion
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.52%) Blender
4 3 (0.52%) Maya
5 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.34%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.17%) Finacle
6 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Infor LN
6 1 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 228 (39.18%) Azure
2 217 (37.29%) Power Platform
3 127 (21.82%) AWS
4 85 (14.60%) GCP
5 67 (11.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 66 (11.34%) Snowflake
7 55 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 41 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (5.67%) dbt
10 31 (5.33%) GitHub
11 28 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
11 28 (4.81%) SaaS
12 27 (4.64%) Amazon S3
13 26 (4.47%) Serverless
14 23 (3.95%) Azure Databricks
15 20 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (3.26%) PowerApps
17 18 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
18 14 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.98%) Broadband
2 2 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.17%) 4G
3 1 (0.17%) 5G
3 1 (0.17%) ATM
3 1 (0.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.17%) NGN
3 1 (0.17%) SMS
3 1 (0.17%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (35.57%) Power BI
2 142 (24.40%) Data Warehouse
3 123 (21.13%) Metadata
4 59 (10.14%) Data Lake
5 50 (8.59%) Tableau
6 46 (7.90%) SQL Server
7 45 (7.73%) Relational Database
8 42 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
9 35 (6.01%) Semantic Layer
10 32 (5.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 32 (5.50%) Star Schema
11 30 (5.15%) NoSQL
12 29 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (4.98%) Delta Lake
13 27 (4.64%) BigQuery
14 24 (4.12%) MongoDB
15 21 (3.61%) Data Vault
16 20 (3.44%) Big Data
16 20 (3.44%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (3.26%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 73 (12.54%) Git
2 25 (4.30%) Jenkins
3 14 (2.41%) JIRA
4 12 (2.06%) GitLab
5 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.52%) ERwin
6 3 (0.52%) Flyway
6 3 (0.52%) MLflow
7 2 (0.34%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Ant
8 1 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.17%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.17%) ESLint
8 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
8 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.17%) Storybook
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Vite
General
1 213 (36.60%) Social Skills
2 171 (29.38%) Analytical Skills
3 144 (24.74%) Finance
4 82 (14.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (12.37%) Public Sector
6 36 (6.19%) Law
7 34 (5.84%) Retail
8 28 (4.81%) Marketing
9 24 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (4.12%) Legal
10 18 (3.09%) Banking
11 17 (2.92%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.20%) Police
14 6 (1.03%) General Ledger
15 5 (0.86%) Billing
15 5 (0.86%) Legal Technology
15 5 (0.86%) Military
16 3 (0.52%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 154 (26.46%) Data Engineer
2 139 (23.88%) Architect
3 127 (21.82%) Senior
4 104 (17.87%) Data Architect
5 75 (12.89%) Analyst
6 60 (10.31%) Lead
7 44 (7.56%) Developer
8 43 (7.39%) Data Analyst
9 39 (6.70%) Senior Data Engineer
10 30 (5.15%) Senior Architect
11 28 (4.81%) Senior Data Architect
12 22 (3.78%) Consultant
13 20 (3.44%) Software Engineer
13 20 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.75%) Business Analyst
15 15 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
16 13 (2.23%) Data Consultant
17 12 (2.06%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 12 (2.06%) Data Modeller
17 12 (2.06%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.20%) PySpark
2 52 (8.93%) Terraform
3 40 (6.87%) REST
4 38 (6.53%) Node.js
5 23 (3.95%) Kafka
6 16 (2.75%) CSS
6 16 (2.75%) React
7 15 (2.58%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (2.41%) JSON
9 12 (2.06%) Middleware
9 12 (2.06%) Pandas
9 12 (2.06%) Tailwind CSS
10 10 (1.72%) RESTful
11 9 (1.55%) .NET
11 9 (1.55%) Lightning Web Components
11 9 (1.55%) SOAP
12 7 (1.20%) Spring
13 6 (1.03%) Django
13 6 (1.03%) LangChain
13 6 (1.03%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.51%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.08%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.41%) Social Media
8 12 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.06%) Reference Data
9 11 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.55%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.37%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.20%) Blog
12 7 (1.20%) Clustering
12 7 (1.20%) Taxonomies
13 6 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.23%) Windows
2 4 (0.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (48.28%) Analytics
2 252 (43.30%) Business Intelligence
3 219 (37.63%) AI
4 191 (32.82%) Data Architecture
5 181 (31.10%) Decision-Making
6 172 (29.55%) CI/CD
7 168 (28.87%) Agile
8 163 (28.01%) Data Engineering
9 160 (27.49%) ETL
10 159 (27.32%) Data Pipeline
11 152 (26.12%) Data Governance
12 138 (23.71%) Data Strategy
13 134 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (19.24%) DevOps
15 107 (18.38%) Mentoring
16 101 (17.35%) Technical Leadership
17 99 (17.01%) Stakeholder Management
18 98 (16.84%) Roadmaps
19 97 (16.67%) Machine Learning
20 83 (14.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 323 (55.50%) SQL
2 246 (42.27%) Python
3 52 (8.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 31 (5.33%) C#
5 27 (4.64%) JavaScript
6 26 (4.47%) Java
7 25 (4.30%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.12%) Scala
9 21 (3.61%) T-SQL
10 20 (3.44%) Bicep
11 14 (2.41%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.72%) Apex Code
12 10 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.37%) R
14 5 (0.86%) Bash
14 5 (0.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.69%) C++
15 4 (0.69%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.52%) Groovy
16 3 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 65 (11.17%) Degree
4 29 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 26 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.92%) SnowPro
8 14 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.55%) CIPD
11 8 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.86%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.34%) PMP
17 1 (0.17%) GIAC
17 1 (0.17%) ICAEW
17 1 (0.17%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (39.35%) Data Quality
2 57 (9.79%) GDPR
3 41 (7.04%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.92%) QA
5 14 (2.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.69%) COPPA
7 3 (0.52%) IFRS
7 3 (0.52%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.52%) MiFID
7 3 (0.52%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.52%) UCITS
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) PERC
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.17%) IASME
9 1 (0.17%) PMO
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (6.70%) Docker
2 9 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.34%) NFS
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.69%) Ansible
3 3 (0.52%) SQL Sentry
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.34%) Packer
5 1 (0.17%) Consul
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 196 (33.68%) Microsoft
2 102 (17.53%) Databricks
3 38 (6.53%) Oracle
4 33 (5.67%) Salesforce
5 30 (5.15%) SAP
6 19 (3.26%) Informatica
7 16 (2.75%) Google
8 11 (1.89%) Talend
9 7 (1.20%) Foundry
9 7 (1.20%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.03%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.03%) Infor
10 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.86%) Palantir
11 5 (0.86%) RedGate
11 5 (0.86%) Workday
12 4 (0.69%) Braze
12 4 (0.69%) Epicor
12 4 (0.69%) IFS