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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 98 116
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 543 427 840
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.99% 3.17% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.35% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 347 228 641
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -2.99%

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 15,007 12,750 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 8,864 23,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,881
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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 39 (7.18%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.79%) Apache
3 25 (4.60%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.47%) SAS
6 6 (1.10%) CMS
6 6 (1.10%) Confluence
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
Applications
1 28 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.37%) Sketch
5 1 (0.18%) Notion
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (1.84%) NetSuite
3 8 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.74%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 289 (53.22%) Azure
2 126 (23.20%) Power Platform
3 122 (22.47%) AWS
4 92 (16.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 86 (15.84%) Snowflake
6 74 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (11.23%) GCP
8 57 (10.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 51 (9.39%) dbt
10 49 (9.02%) GitHub
11 45 (8.29%) Serverless
12 30 (5.52%) Amazon S3
12 30 (5.52%) GitHub Copilot
13 27 (4.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 24 (4.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 23 (4.24%) SaaS
16 20 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
18 14 (2.58%) Power Automate
19 13 (2.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.89%) Broadband
2 3 (0.55%) NGN
3 1 (0.18%) 4G
3 1 (0.18%) 5G
3 1 (0.18%) ADSL
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
3 1 (0.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (22.10%) Data Warehouse
2 112 (20.63%) Power BI
3 78 (14.36%) Metadata
4 69 (12.71%) Data Lake
5 46 (8.47%) Tableau
6 38 (7.00%) Relational Database
7 35 (6.45%) SQL Server
8 31 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 23 (4.24%) BigQuery
10 23 (4.24%) MySQL
11 18 (3.31%) Delta Lake
11 18 (3.31%) SAP BW
11 18 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (3.13%) NoSQL
13 13 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
13 13 (2.39%) Amazon QuickSight
13 13 (2.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (2.21%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (7.18%) Git
2 20 (3.68%) JIRA
3 11 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
4 4 (0.74%) ERwin
5 2 (0.37%) MLflow
6 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.18%) git-flow
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Postman
6 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.18%) Toad
General
1 186 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 172 (31.68%) Finance
3 140 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (12.52%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.63%) Law
7 32 (5.89%) Marketing
8 24 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.95%) Retail
10 11 (2.03%) Publishing
11 10 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.66%) Banking
12 9 (1.66%) Legal
13 7 (1.29%) Games
14 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.92%) Back Office
15 5 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.74%) Advertising
17 3 (0.55%) Health Technology
17 3 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 143 (26.34%) Data Engineer
2 130 (23.94%) Architect
3 105 (19.34%) Senior
4 85 (15.65%) Data Architect
5 67 (12.34%) Developer
6 66 (12.15%) Lead
7 63 (11.60%) Analyst
8 40 (7.37%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (7.00%) Data Analyst
10 25 (4.60%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.31%) Senior Architect
13 17 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (3.13%) Consultant
13 17 (3.13%) Salesforce Developer
14 16 (2.95%) Salesforce Engineer
15 15 (2.76%) Business Analyst
16 13 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 13 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (2.21%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.21%) REST
2 40 (7.37%) PySpark
3 37 (6.81%) Kafka
4 36 (6.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 34 (6.26%) SOAP
6 23 (4.24%) .NET
7 19 (3.50%) Middleware
8 18 (3.31%) Node.js
9 16 (2.95%) Visualforce
10 15 (2.76%) JSON
11 13 (2.39%) React
12 12 (2.21%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (2.03%) CSS
13 11 (2.03%) HTML
13 11 (2.03%) XML
14 8 (1.47%) YAML
15 5 (0.92%) HTML5 Canvas
15 5 (0.92%) RESTful
15 5 (0.92%) Spring
16 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.84%) Data Structures
2 46 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 43 (7.92%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.87%) Social Media
6 18 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.21%) FMCG
11 10 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.84%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.84%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.47%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.10%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.10%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.74%) Windows
2 3 (0.55%) Android
3 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (44.94%) Analytics
2 184 (33.89%) Data Engineering
3 172 (31.68%) Agile
4 166 (30.57%) ETL
5 163 (30.02%) Data Architecture
6 154 (28.36%) Business Intelligence
7 151 (27.81%) DevOps
8 147 (27.07%) Data Pipeline
9 146 (26.89%) CI/CD
10 123 (22.65%) Data Governance
11 113 (20.81%) AI
12 105 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
13 95 (17.50%) Decision-Making
14 94 (17.31%) Mentoring
15 89 (16.39%) Data Integration
16 79 (14.55%) Data Strategy
17 78 (14.36%) Coaching
18 77 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
19 68 (12.52%) Data Management
20 61 (11.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (44.01%) SQL
2 220 (40.52%) Python
3 50 (9.21%) Java
4 48 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 35 (6.45%) Apex Code
6 29 (5.34%) C#
7 27 (4.97%) Scala
8 26 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 25 (4.60%) PowerShell
10 22 (4.05%) T-SQL
11 20 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (2.03%) Bash
13 7 (1.29%) Go
14 6 (1.10%) C++
15 5 (0.92%) Bicep
15 5 (0.92%) PHP
15 5 (0.92%) R
16 4 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 79 (14.55%) Degree
2 64 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 54 (9.94%) SC Cleared
4 35 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (4.60%) Azure Certification
6 20 (3.68%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.58%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.21%) ACCA
9 12 (2.21%) CIMA
10 6 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.37%) IIBA
12 1 (0.18%) CBAP
12 1 (0.18%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (27.44%) Data Quality
2 39 (7.18%) Accessibility
3 32 (5.89%) GDPR
4 20 (3.68%) QA
5 13 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.55%) IFRS
6 3 (0.55%) IFRS 17
6 3 (0.55%) PERC
6 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 14 (2.58%) Docker
2 12 (2.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (7.00%) Terraform
2 9 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) Ansible
3 3 (0.55%) Control-M
3 3 (0.55%) Packer
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 147 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 104 (19.15%) Databricks
3 55 (10.13%) Salesforce
4 33 (6.08%) Oracle
5 30 (5.52%) SAP
6 15 (2.76%) Google
6 15 (2.76%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.03%) IBM
8 10 (1.84%) Informatica
9 6 (1.10%) Foundry
9 6 (1.10%) Talend
10 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.74%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.74%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.74%) Palantir
11 4 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.55%) BMC
12 3 (0.55%) Sparx
13 2 (0.37%) iManage