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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 117 90
Rank change year-on-year +37 -27 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 507 472 842
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 2.88% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.07% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 312 222 606
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,899 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +1.96% -1.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,700 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% - -

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 13,564 15,399 23,181
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.90% 94.05% 93.06%
Number of salaries quoted 8,623 9,062 19,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £44,899
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 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 30 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.54%) Apache
3 15 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.76%) Confluence
5 5 (0.99%) CMS
6 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.39%) Mendix
7 2 (0.39%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Luigi
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.59%) Sketch
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Notion
4 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.78%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.18%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 322 (63.51%) Azure
2 123 (24.26%) AWS
3 122 (24.06%) Snowflake
4 106 (20.91%) Power Platform
5 94 (18.54%) Azure DevOps
6 91 (17.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 75 (14.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (14.20%) GitHub
9 62 (12.23%) GCP
10 59 (11.64%) dbt
11 48 (9.47%) GitHub Copilot
12 47 (9.27%) Serverless
13 42 (8.28%) SaaS
14 32 (6.31%) Amazon S3
15 24 (4.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 22 (4.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 18 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (2.56%) PowerApps
19 12 (2.37%) Power Automate
19 12 (2.37%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Broadband
2 1 (0.20%) ADSL
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (35.50%) Data Warehouse
2 98 (19.33%) Power BI
3 82 (16.17%) Data Lake
4 66 (13.02%) Metadata
5 44 (8.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (7.10%) Tableau
7 31 (6.11%) SQL Server
8 24 (4.73%) Snowflake Schema
9 23 (4.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 22 (4.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (4.14%) MySQL
11 21 (4.14%) NoSQL
12 17 (3.35%) Data Vault
13 16 (3.16%) BigQuery
13 16 (3.16%) Data Mining
13 16 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (2.96%) Delta Lake
14 15 (2.96%) Relational Database
15 12 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
15 12 (2.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 41 (8.09%) Git
2 38 (7.50%) JIRA
3 18 (3.55%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.55%) ERwin
4 6 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.99%) git-flow
6 4 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 195 (38.46%) Finance
2 183 (36.09%) Social Skills
3 129 (25.44%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 31 (6.11%) Marketing
6 30 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.13%) Retail
8 23 (4.54%) Law
9 12 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.97%) Banking
11 9 (1.78%) Legal
11 9 (1.78%) Publishing
12 8 (1.58%) Advertising
12 8 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.99%) Back Office
13 5 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.99%) Retail Banking
14 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (28.40%) Architect
2 117 (23.08%) Senior
3 110 (21.70%) Data Engineer
4 102 (20.12%) Data Architect
5 59 (11.64%) Developer
6 40 (7.89%) Analyst
7 39 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
8 38 (7.50%) Lead
9 19 (3.75%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.75%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (3.55%) Senior Architect
10 18 (3.55%) Senior Data Architect
11 16 (3.16%) Consultant
11 16 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.76%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.76%) Data Modeller
13 13 (2.56%) Applications Architect
13 13 (2.56%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (2.37%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.27%) REST
2 38 (7.50%) SOAP
3 34 (6.71%) Lightning Web Components
4 29 (5.72%) Kafka
5 24 (4.73%) .NET
6 23 (4.54%) PySpark
7 16 (3.16%) Middleware
8 15 (2.96%) CSS
9 14 (2.76%) HTML
10 12 (2.37%) JSON
10 12 (2.37%) React
10 12 (2.37%) Visualforce
11 11 (2.17%) XML
12 8 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (1.58%) YAML
13 7 (1.38%) AWS CDK
14 6 (1.18%) Node.js
15 5 (0.99%) Material-UI
16 4 (0.79%) AngularJS
16 4 (0.79%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.06%) Cloud Native
2 49 (9.66%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (4.54%) Data Structures
4 23 (4.54%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.78%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.58%) FMCG
9 6 (1.18%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.79%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.59%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.59%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.38%) Android
2 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (43.00%) Analytics
2 210 (41.42%) Agile
3 174 (34.32%) DevOps
4 170 (33.53%) ETL
5 168 (33.14%) Data Engineering
6 156 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 151 (29.78%) Data Architecture
8 130 (25.64%) Data Governance
9 129 (25.44%) AI
10 128 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
11 127 (25.05%) Mentoring
12 120 (23.67%) Data Pipeline
13 109 (21.50%) Coaching
14 106 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
15 105 (20.71%) Data Integration
16 97 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
17 82 (16.17%) Data Management
18 79 (15.58%) Asset Management
19 74 (14.60%) Clean Code
20 73 (14.40%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 232 (45.76%) SQL
2 201 (39.64%) Python
3 50 (9.86%) Java
4 49 (9.66%) JavaScript
5 45 (8.88%) C#
6 36 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 35 (6.90%) Apex Code
8 31 (6.11%) Scala
9 24 (4.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (4.14%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.76%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.97%) Bash
12 10 (1.97%) R
13 6 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.99%) PHP
15 3 (0.59%) Swift
16 2 (0.39%) Go
16 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.39%) SOQL
16 2 (0.39%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 81 (15.98%) Degree
2 51 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 35 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 34 (6.71%) Azure Certification
6 28 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 28 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (4.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 9 (1.78%) ACCA
10 9 (1.78%) CIMA
11 7 (1.38%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.99%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.99%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.20%) PMP
14 1 (0.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (18.34%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.88%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 13 (2.56%) QA
4 12 (2.37%) GDPR
5 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.20%) P3O
6 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (1.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (6.90%) Terraform
2 6 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.59%) Control-M
4 1 (0.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 145 (28.60%) Microsoft
2 104 (20.51%) Databricks
3 48 (9.47%) Salesforce
4 26 (5.13%) Google
5 13 (2.56%) Informatica
6 11 (2.17%) IBM
7 10 (1.97%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.78%) SAP
8 9 (1.78%) Talend
9 8 (1.58%) Oracle
10 4 (0.79%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.79%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.59%) BMC
11 3 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.59%) Sparx
12 2 (0.39%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.39%) iManage
12 2 (0.39%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.39%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) Zend