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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 115 101
Rank change year-on-year +39 -14 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 550 453 837
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 3.02% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.17% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 340 213 632
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,938 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £63,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,250 £99,750
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,750 £66,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -5.64% +2.31%

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 14,086 14,271 25,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.91% 95.07% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 9,148 8,671 21,423
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,249 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 24 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 40 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.36%) Apache
3 19 (3.45%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.82%) Confluence
5 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.45%) SAS
6 6 (1.09%) CMS
7 5 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.36%) Mendix
8 2 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
Applications
1 33 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.09%) 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%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.00%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.09%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 341 (62.00%) Azure
2 128 (23.27%) AWS
3 120 (21.82%) Snowflake
4 117 (21.27%) Power Platform
5 99 (18.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 91 (16.55%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (13.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (13.09%) GCP
9 69 (12.55%) GitHub
10 66 (12.00%) dbt
11 46 (8.36%) GitHub Copilot
11 46 (8.36%) Serverless
12 44 (8.00%) SaaS
13 30 (5.45%) Amazon S3
14 29 (5.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 27 (4.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 19 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
17 15 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
18 14 (2.55%) Power Automate
18 14 (2.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.27%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) ADSL
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (32.73%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (19.64%) Power BI
3 81 (14.73%) Metadata
4 78 (14.18%) Data Lake
5 47 (8.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 42 (7.64%) SQL Server
7 40 (7.27%) Tableau
8 30 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (5.27%) MySQL
10 26 (4.73%) BigQuery
11 23 (4.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 22 (4.00%) NoSQL
13 21 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
14 19 (3.45%) Relational Database
15 18 (3.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (3.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 16 (2.91%) Data Vault
18 15 (2.73%) Data Mining
18 15 (2.73%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 40 (7.27%) Git
2 31 (5.64%) JIRA
3 16 (2.91%) ERwin
4 14 (2.55%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.91%) git-flow
6 4 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 206 (37.45%) Social Skills
2 200 (36.36%) Finance
3 141 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 36 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.18%) Marketing
7 30 (5.45%) Law
8 24 (4.36%) Retail
9 14 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.00%) Publishing
12 9 (1.64%) Legal
13 8 (1.45%) Banking
14 7 (1.27%) Advertising
15 6 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Back Office
16 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 150 (27.27%) Architect
2 125 (22.73%) Senior
3 123 (22.36%) Data Engineer
4 103 (18.73%) Data Architect
5 65 (11.82%) Developer
6 52 (9.45%) Lead
7 48 (8.73%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (8.36%) Analyst
9 30 (5.45%) Data Analyst
10 23 (4.18%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (4.00%) Senior Architect
12 19 (3.45%) Consultant
13 18 (3.27%) Senior Data Architect
14 17 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.09%) Salesforce Developer
15 16 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (2.36%) Applications Architect
16 13 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
16 13 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.27%) REST
2 43 (7.82%) SOAP
3 39 (7.09%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (5.82%) Kafka
5 29 (5.27%) .NET
6 23 (4.18%) PySpark
7 21 (3.82%) Middleware
8 18 (3.27%) JSON
9 17 (3.09%) Visualforce
10 16 (2.91%) XML
11 15 (2.73%) React
12 14 (2.55%) CSS
13 13 (2.36%) HTML
14 8 (1.45%) Node.js
14 8 (1.45%) YAML
15 7 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (0.91%) gRPC
16 5 (0.91%) Material-UI
16 5 (0.91%) RESTful
16 5 (0.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 51 (9.27%) Cloud Native
3 39 (7.09%) Data Structures
4 25 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.18%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.91%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.82%) FMCG
10 9 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.45%) Reference Data
12 6 (1.09%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.09%) Social Media
13 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.73%) Data Fabric
14 4 (0.73%) Replication
15 3 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
15 3 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.27%) Android
2 4 (0.73%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (44.18%) Analytics
2 206 (37.45%) Agile
3 183 (33.27%) Data Engineering
4 176 (32.00%) ETL
5 172 (31.27%) DevOps
6 165 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 157 (28.55%) Data Architecture
8 138 (25.09%) Business Intelligence
9 134 (24.36%) Data Governance
10 130 (23.64%) Mentoring
11 128 (23.27%) AI
12 127 (23.09%) Data Pipeline
13 112 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (19.45%) Coaching
15 106 (19.27%) Data Integration
16 98 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 87 (15.82%) Decision-Making
18 84 (15.27%) Data Management
19 80 (14.55%) Asset Management
20 76 (13.82%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 242 (44.00%) SQL
2 214 (38.91%) Python
3 58 (10.55%) Java
4 57 (10.36%) JavaScript
5 45 (8.18%) C#
6 40 (7.27%) Apex Code
7 38 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.27%) Scala
9 28 (5.09%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 20 (3.64%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.00%) Bash
13 7 (1.27%) R
14 6 (1.09%) C++
14 6 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.09%) PHP
15 3 (0.55%) Swift
16 2 (0.36%) Bicep
16 2 (0.36%) SOQL
16 2 (0.36%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 94 (17.09%) Degree
2 55 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (9.45%) Security Cleared
4 48 (8.73%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.00%) Azure Certification
6 28 (5.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 27 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (4.73%) AWS Certification
9 24 (4.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.18%) ACCA
10 12 (2.18%) CIMA
10 12 (2.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 7 (1.27%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.09%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.36%) SAP Certification
15 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (20.73%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.18%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.55%) QA
4 13 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 13 (2.36%) GDPR
5 11 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.18%) P3O
6 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (2.18%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (5.82%) Terraform
2 5 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 151 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 105 (19.09%) Databricks
3 55 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 25 (4.55%) Google
5 16 (2.91%) Informatica
5 16 (2.91%) MuleSoft
6 15 (2.73%) SAP
7 11 (2.00%) IBM
7 11 (2.00%) Oracle
8 9 (1.64%) Talend
9 5 (0.91%) Foundry
10 4 (0.73%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.73%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.55%) BMC
11 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.55%) Palantir
11 3 (0.55%) Sparx
12 2 (0.36%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.36%) Zend