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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 113 90
Rank change year-on-year +30 -23 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 476 485 742
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 2.95% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.15% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 290 224 515
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,313 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,716 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% +1.96% -1.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,875 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% - -

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 13,245 15,409 20,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.79% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,423 9,065 16,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,781 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (4.62%) Apache
3 16 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.94%) Confluence
5 5 (1.05%) CMS
6 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.42%) Mendix
7 2 (0.42%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) Luigi
Applications
1 28 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.26%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.63%) Sketch
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Notion
5 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.47%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.26%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 304 (63.87%) Azure
2 119 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 109 (22.90%) AWS
4 98 (20.59%) Power Platform
5 92 (19.33%) Azure DevOps
6 84 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 71 (14.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 71 (14.92%) GitHub
8 57 (11.97%) dbt
9 51 (10.71%) GCP
10 48 (10.08%) GitHub Copilot
11 47 (9.87%) Serverless
12 41 (8.61%) SaaS
13 31 (6.51%) Amazon S3
14 21 (4.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (2.52%) PowerApps
16 12 (2.52%) Salesforce Einstein
17 11 (2.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Broadband
2 1 (0.21%) ADSL
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (38.24%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (19.12%) Power BI
3 83 (17.44%) Data Lake
4 53 (11.13%) Metadata
5 42 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (6.51%) Tableau
7 30 (6.30%) SQL Server
8 23 (4.83%) Snowflake Schema
9 22 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 21 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (3.99%) MySQL
11 19 (3.99%) NoSQL
12 18 (3.78%) Data Vault
13 16 (3.36%) BigQuery
13 16 (3.36%) Data Mining
13 16 (3.36%) Relational Database
14 15 (3.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (2.73%) Delta Lake
16 12 (2.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 10 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 40 (8.40%) JIRA
2 35 (7.35%) Git
3 18 (3.78%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.78%) ERwin
4 6 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.05%) git-flow
6 4 (0.84%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 186 (39.08%) Finance
2 174 (36.55%) Social Skills
3 126 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (7.56%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (6.09%) Marketing
7 25 (5.25%) Retail
8 22 (4.62%) Law
9 13 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.10%) Banking
11 8 (1.68%) Advertising
11 8 (1.68%) Legal
11 8 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.47%) Publishing
13 6 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.05%) Back Office
14 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.05%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 133 (27.94%) Architect
2 105 (22.06%) Senior
3 104 (21.85%) Data Engineer
4 93 (19.54%) Data Architect
5 53 (11.13%) Developer
6 37 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 34 (7.14%) Analyst
8 32 (6.72%) Lead
9 17 (3.57%) Consultant
10 16 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (3.36%) Lead Data Engineer
10 16 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (2.94%) Business Analyst
11 14 (2.94%) Data Analyst
11 14 (2.94%) Data Modeller
12 13 (2.73%) Applications Architect
13 12 (2.52%) Azure Architect
13 12 (2.52%) Azure Data Architect
13 12 (2.52%) Business Manager
13 12 (2.52%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.03%) REST
2 35 (7.35%) SOAP
3 31 (6.51%) Lightning Web Components
4 26 (5.46%) Kafka
5 21 (4.41%) .NET
5 21 (4.41%) PySpark
6 15 (3.15%) CSS
7 14 (2.94%) HTML
8 13 (2.73%) JSON
8 13 (2.73%) Middleware
9 12 (2.52%) XML
10 11 (2.31%) React
11 9 (1.89%) Visualforce
12 8 (1.68%) YAML
13 7 (1.47%) AWS CDK
13 7 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.05%) Material-UI
14 5 (1.05%) Node.js
15 3 (0.63%) RESTful
15 3 (0.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.08%) Cloud Native
2 47 (9.87%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.25%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (4.20%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.26%) FMCG
8 6 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.84%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.63%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.63%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.63%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.26%) Android
2 4 (0.84%) Windows
3 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (43.28%) Analytics
2 199 (41.81%) Agile
3 163 (34.24%) ETL
4 159 (33.40%) DevOps
5 158 (33.19%) Data Engineering
6 140 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 137 (28.78%) Data Architecture
8 125 (26.26%) AI
9 120 (25.21%) Business Intelligence
10 116 (24.37%) Mentoring
11 115 (24.16%) Data Pipeline
12 112 (23.53%) Data Governance
13 106 (22.27%) Data Integration
14 99 (20.80%) Coaching
15 98 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
16 93 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (16.39%) Asset Management
18 75 (15.76%) Data Management
19 74 (15.55%) Clean Code
20 68 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 222 (46.64%) SQL
2 192 (40.34%) Python
3 48 (10.08%) Java
4 45 (9.45%) JavaScript
5 43 (9.03%) C#
6 35 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 32 (6.72%) Apex Code
8 30 (6.30%) Scala
9 24 (5.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 20 (4.20%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.52%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.10%) R
13 8 (1.68%) Bash
14 6 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.84%) PHP
15 4 (0.84%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.63%) Fortran
16 3 (0.63%) Swift
17 2 (0.42%) Go
17 2 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (15.55%) Degree
2 50 (10.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 32 (6.72%) Security Cleared
5 31 (6.51%) SC Cleared
6 29 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 28 (5.88%) AWS Certification
8 25 (5.25%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (5.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 7 (1.47%) ACCA
11 7 (1.47%) CIMA
11 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.05%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.21%) PhD
14 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.21%) PMP
14 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (17.23%) Data Quality
2 44 (9.24%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.73%) Actionable Recommendations
4 12 (2.52%) QA
5 11 (2.31%) GDPR
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.21%) P3O
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.26%) Docker
2 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (6.72%) Terraform
2 5 (1.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.63%) Control-M
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 136 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 98 (20.59%) Databricks
3 44 (9.24%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.99%) Google
5 11 (2.31%) IBM
6 10 (2.10%) Informatica
7 9 (1.89%) SAP
7 9 (1.89%) Talend
8 8 (1.68%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.68%) Oracle
9 4 (0.84%) Ab Initio
9 4 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.63%) BMC
10 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.63%) Sparx
11 2 (0.42%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.42%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.42%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.42%) Palantir
11 2 (0.42%) Zend