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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 114 93
Rank change year-on-year +33 -21 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 469 498 699
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.10% 2.99% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.20% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 284 229 475
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,438 £53,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 13,271 15,543 19,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.60% 93.41% 93.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8,417 9,212 15,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,713 £46,250
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 £81,250 £80,000
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 8 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 24 (5.12%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (4.26%) Apache
3 15 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.99%) Confluence
5 5 (1.07%) CMS
6 3 (0.64%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Mendix
7 2 (0.43%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) Luigi
Applications
1 27 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) 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 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.49%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.28%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 302 (64.39%) Azure
2 119 (25.37%) Snowflake
3 106 (22.60%) AWS
4 94 (20.04%) Power Platform
5 91 (19.40%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (17.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 72 (15.35%) GitHub
8 69 (14.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 56 (11.94%) dbt
10 50 (10.66%) GCP
11 48 (10.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 46 (9.81%) Serverless
13 40 (8.53%) SaaS
14 30 (6.40%) Amazon S3
15 19 (4.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 18 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
17 17 (3.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 12 (2.56%) PowerApps
18 12 (2.56%) Salesforce Einstein
19 11 (2.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Broadband
2 1 (0.21%) ADSL
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (39.02%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (18.55%) Power BI
3 83 (17.70%) Data Lake
4 50 (10.66%) Metadata
5 42 (8.96%) Azure SQL Database
6 30 (6.40%) SQL Server
7 28 (5.97%) Tableau
8 24 (5.12%) Snowflake Schema
9 21 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 20 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (4.05%) Data Vault
11 19 (4.05%) MySQL
12 18 (3.84%) NoSQL
13 16 (3.41%) BigQuery
13 16 (3.41%) Data Mining
13 16 (3.41%) Relational Database
14 13 (2.77%) Delta Lake
15 12 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 12 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (8.74%) JIRA
2 34 (7.25%) Git
3 18 (3.84%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.84%) ERwin
4 6 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.07%) git-flow
6 4 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 186 (39.66%) Finance
2 173 (36.89%) Social Skills
3 126 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 30 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.97%) Marketing
7 26 (5.54%) Retail
8 22 (4.69%) Law
9 14 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.92%) Banking
11 8 (1.71%) Advertising
11 8 (1.71%) Legal
11 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.49%) Publishing
13 6 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.07%) Back Office
14 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.07%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 132 (28.14%) Architect
2 103 (21.96%) Data Engineer
3 101 (21.54%) Senior
4 93 (19.83%) Data Architect
5 48 (10.23%) Developer
6 36 (7.68%) Senior Data Engineer
7 32 (6.82%) Analyst
8 29 (6.18%) Lead
9 17 (3.62%) Consultant
10 16 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.20%) Lead Data Engineer
12 14 (2.99%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.99%) Data Modeller
13 13 (2.77%) Applications Architect
13 13 (2.77%) Azure Architect
13 13 (2.77%) Azure Data Architect
14 12 (2.56%) Business Manager
14 12 (2.56%) Data Analyst
14 12 (2.56%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.53%) REST
2 32 (6.82%) SOAP
3 29 (6.18%) Lightning Web Components
4 23 (4.90%) Kafka
5 20 (4.26%) .NET
5 20 (4.26%) PySpark
6 14 (2.99%) CSS
6 14 (2.99%) JSON
7 13 (2.77%) HTML
7 13 (2.77%) XML
8 11 (2.35%) Middleware
8 11 (2.35%) React
9 8 (1.71%) YAML
10 7 (1.49%) AWS CDK
10 7 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (1.49%) Visualforce
11 5 (1.07%) Material-UI
11 5 (1.07%) Node.js
12 4 (0.85%) ADO
13 3 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.02%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.81%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 18 (3.84%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.28%) FMCG
8 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.07%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.85%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.64%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.64%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.64%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.28%) Android
2 4 (0.85%) Windows
3 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (43.07%) Analytics
2 198 (42.22%) Agile
3 162 (34.54%) ETL
4 155 (33.05%) DevOps
5 153 (32.62%) Data Engineering
6 137 (29.21%) CI/CD
7 134 (28.57%) Data Architecture
8 126 (26.87%) AI
9 116 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
10 114 (24.31%) Data Pipeline
11 113 (24.09%) Mentoring
12 108 (23.03%) Data Governance
12 108 (23.03%) Data Integration
13 97 (20.68%) Coaching
14 95 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
15 91 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 77 (16.42%) Asset Management
17 73 (15.57%) Clean Code
18 72 (15.35%) Data Management
19 70 (14.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 219 (46.70%) SQL
2 191 (40.72%) Python
3 47 (10.02%) Java
4 43 (9.17%) C#
5 42 (8.96%) JavaScript
6 35 (7.46%) TypeScript
7 31 (6.61%) Scala
8 30 (6.40%) Apex Code
9 24 (5.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (4.05%) PowerShell
11 12 (2.56%) T-SQL
12 8 (1.71%) R
13 7 (1.49%) Bash
14 6 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.85%) Fortran
16 4 (0.85%) PHP
17 3 (0.64%) Swift
18 2 (0.43%) Bicep
18 2 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (15.35%) Degree
2 49 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (7.25%) Azure Certification
4 30 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (6.18%) Security Cleared
6 28 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 28 (5.97%) SC Cleared
7 25 (5.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (5.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 7 (1.49%) ACCA
10 7 (1.49%) CIMA
10 7 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.07%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 44 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 11 (2.35%) GDPR
4 11 (2.35%) QA
5 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.21%) P3O
6 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.28%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (6.82%) Terraform
2 5 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.64%) Control-M
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 134 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 97 (20.68%) Databricks
3 42 (8.96%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.05%) Google
5 11 (2.35%) IBM
6 9 (1.92%) Informatica
6 9 (1.92%) SAP
6 9 (1.92%) Talend
7 8 (1.71%) Oracle
8 7 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.85%) Ab Initio
9 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.64%) BMC
10 3 (0.64%) Sparx
11 2 (0.43%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.43%) Foundry
11 2 (0.43%) iManage
11 2 (0.43%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.43%) Samsung
11 2 (0.43%) Zend