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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 135 141
Rank change year-on-year +21 +6 -44
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 526 430 643
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.43% 2.61% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.80% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 375 262 444
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,875
25th Percentile £51,425 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +3.70%

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 17,875 15,362 25,786
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 93.25% 88.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,022 9,082 19,277
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,089
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 21 July 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 27 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (4.94%) Apache Spark
3 22 (4.18%) Apache
4 13 (2.47%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.14%) SAS
7 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 33 (6.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Blender
3 3 (0.57%) Maya
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 207 (39.35%) Azure
2 164 (31.18%) Power Platform
3 106 (20.15%) AWS
4 64 (12.17%) GCP
5 61 (11.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 39 (7.41%) Snowflake
7 37 (7.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 30 (5.70%) SaaS
8 30 (5.70%) Serverless
9 25 (4.75%) dbt
10 24 (4.56%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.80%) GitHub
12 19 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
13 17 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (2.85%) Microsoft Purview
16 14 (2.66%) PowerApps
17 13 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (2.47%) Power Automate
17 13 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.37%) Broadband
2 4 (0.76%) NGN
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) 4G
4 1 (0.19%) 5G
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (28.14%) Power BI
2 88 (16.73%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (16.35%) Metadata
4 55 (10.46%) Data Lake
5 50 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
6 46 (8.75%) SQL Server
7 45 (8.56%) Relational Database
8 40 (7.60%) Tableau
9 34 (6.46%) Semantic Layer
10 31 (5.89%) BigQuery
11 28 (5.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (3.80%) Big Data
12 20 (3.80%) MongoDB
12 20 (3.80%) MySQL
12 20 (3.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 19 (3.61%) Delta Lake
14 18 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (3.42%) Star Schema
15 17 (3.23%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 37 (7.03%) Git
2 21 (3.99%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.33%) JIRA
4 6 (1.14%) GitLab
5 3 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.19%) Ant
6 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.19%) ERwin
6 1 (0.19%) Mocha
6 1 (0.19%) Postman
6 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.19%) Toad
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 198 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 148 (28.14%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (24.52%) Finance
4 77 (14.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (13.12%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.98%) Law
7 27 (5.13%) Retail
8 26 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (3.61%) Marketing
10 13 (2.47%) Banking
10 13 (2.47%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.28%) Legal
12 11 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.33%) Games
14 5 (0.95%) Billing
14 5 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.76%) Military
15 4 (0.76%) Police
16 3 (0.57%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 149 (28.33%) Data Engineer
2 120 (22.81%) Architect
3 98 (18.63%) Senior
4 81 (15.40%) Data Architect
5 71 (13.50%) Lead
6 66 (12.55%) Analyst
7 57 (10.84%) Developer
8 41 (7.79%) Senior Data Engineer
9 35 (6.65%) Data Analyst
10 26 (4.94%) Senior Architect
11 21 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 19 (3.61%) Senior Data Architect
13 18 (3.42%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.23%) Consultant
14 17 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
15 15 (2.85%) Financial Analyst
16 13 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 13 (2.47%) Software Engineer
16 13 (2.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.56%) PySpark
2 43 (8.17%) REST
3 38 (7.22%) Node.js
4 31 (5.89%) Kafka
5 20 (3.80%) JSON
6 17 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
7 16 (3.04%) Middleware
8 14 (2.66%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (2.66%) React
8 14 (2.66%) SOAP
9 13 (2.47%) CSS
9 13 (2.47%) XML
10 12 (2.28%) .NET
11 10 (1.90%) RESTful
12 8 (1.52%) Tailwind CSS
12 8 (1.52%) Visualforce
13 7 (1.33%) Spring
14 6 (1.14%) Django
14 6 (1.14%) HTML
14 6 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 55 (10.46%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.37%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.18%) Social Media
5 18 (3.42%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (2.85%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.09%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.90%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.71%) Blog
11 9 (1.71%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.52%) Data Fabric
13 7 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.33%) Taxonomies
13 7 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
14 6 (1.14%) Anti-Piracy
15 5 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (45.06%) Analytics
2 187 (35.55%) Business Intelligence
3 163 (30.99%) Data Engineering
4 157 (29.85%) Data Architecture
5 154 (29.28%) Decision-Making
6 150 (28.52%) AI
7 131 (24.90%) Agile
8 128 (24.33%) Data Pipeline
9 125 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (23.57%) CI/CD
10 124 (23.57%) ETL
11 118 (22.43%) Data Strategy
12 117 (22.24%) Data Governance
13 81 (15.40%) DevOps
14 79 (15.02%) Mentoring
15 78 (14.83%) Machine Learning
16 75 (14.26%) Roadmaps
17 73 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 71 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 63 (11.98%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 241 (45.82%) SQL
2 203 (38.59%) Python
3 35 (6.65%) Java
4 34 (6.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (6.46%) JavaScript
5 23 (4.37%) T-SQL
6 21 (3.99%) Scala
6 21 (3.99%) TypeScript
7 16 (3.04%) Apex Code
7 16 (3.04%) C#
8 15 (2.85%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.09%) Bicep
10 9 (1.71%) C++
10 9 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.33%) Go
12 6 (1.14%) Bash
13 4 (0.76%) R
14 3 (0.57%) PHP
14 3 (0.57%) VBA
15 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 67 (12.74%) Degree
3 53 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.99%) Azure Certification
4 21 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.71%) CIPD
8 9 (1.71%) SnowPro
9 7 (1.33%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.76%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.57%) ACCA
13 3 (0.57%) CIMA
14 2 (0.38%) IIBA
15 1 (0.19%) CBAP
15 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (36.12%) Data Quality
2 41 (7.79%) GDPR
3 20 (3.80%) QA
4 14 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.76%) PERC
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS
7 3 (0.57%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.57%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.19%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.19%) HL7
8 1 (0.19%) MiFID
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.19%) UCITS
System Software
1 29 (5.51%) Docker
2 8 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (6.65%) Terraform
2 12 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.76%) Ansible
4 3 (0.57%) Packer
5 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 137 (26.05%) Microsoft
2 95 (18.06%) Databricks
3 44 (8.37%) Oracle
4 39 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 39 (7.41%) SAP
5 10 (1.90%) MuleSoft
6 9 (1.71%) Informatica
7 8 (1.52%) Google
8 7 (1.33%) Foundry
8 7 (1.33%) HubSpot
9 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.76%) Epicor
11 4 (0.76%) IBM
11 4 (0.76%) IFS
11 4 (0.76%) Infor
12 3 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.57%) Palantir
12 3 (0.57%) TOWER Software