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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 112 107
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 544 430 833
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.30% 2.98% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.13% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 339 205 620
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £62,500 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +13.49% -1.96% -1.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% -7.41% +3.85%

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 14,129 13,731 26,398
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.60% 95.17% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9,198 8,546 21,902
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,500 £34,401
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,725
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 £103,750 £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 3 March 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 41 (7.54%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (4.41%) Apache
3 19 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.84%) Confluence
5 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.47%) SAS
6 6 (1.10%) CMS
7 5 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.37%) Mendix
8 2 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
Applications
1 32 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.10%) 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 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.10%) Markit EDM
4 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 335 (61.58%) Azure
2 126 (23.16%) AWS
3 118 (21.69%) Snowflake
4 114 (20.96%) Power Platform
5 100 (18.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 91 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 71 (13.05%) GCP
9 69 (12.68%) GitHub
10 65 (11.95%) dbt
11 47 (8.64%) Serverless
12 45 (8.27%) GitHub Copilot
13 41 (7.54%) SaaS
14 32 (5.88%) Amazon S3
15 29 (5.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 28 (5.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 19 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
19 14 (2.57%) Power Automate
19 14 (2.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.10%) Broadband
2 1 (0.18%) ADSL
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (31.62%) Data Warehouse
2 105 (19.30%) Power BI
3 81 (14.89%) Metadata
4 75 (13.79%) Data Lake
5 47 (8.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 44 (8.09%) SQL Server
7 39 (7.17%) Tableau
8 30 (5.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 29 (5.33%) MySQL
10 26 (4.78%) BigQuery
11 24 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 21 (3.86%) NoSQL
12 21 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
12 21 (3.86%) Relational Database
13 20 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 15 (2.76%) Delta Lake
17 14 (2.57%) Data Mining
17 14 (2.57%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 41 (7.54%) Git
2 31 (5.70%) JIRA
3 15 (2.76%) ERwin
4 13 (2.39%) ER Studio
5 5 (0.92%) git-flow
6 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.18%) Postman
7 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 203 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 197 (36.21%) Finance
3 141 (25.92%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.95%) Public Sector
5 35 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (6.07%) Marketing
7 29 (5.33%) Law
8 23 (4.23%) Retail
9 15 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.02%) Publishing
12 9 (1.65%) Legal
13 8 (1.47%) Banking
14 7 (1.29%) Advertising
15 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.92%) Back Office
16 5 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 146 (26.84%) Architect
2 123 (22.61%) Senior
3 121 (22.24%) Data Engineer
4 100 (18.38%) Data Architect
5 67 (12.32%) Developer
6 52 (9.56%) Lead
7 48 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (8.46%) Analyst
9 30 (5.51%) Data Analyst
10 22 (4.04%) Lead Data Engineer
11 21 (3.86%) Senior Architect
12 19 (3.49%) Consultant
13 18 (3.31%) Salesforce Developer
14 17 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
14 17 (3.13%) Senior Data Architect
15 16 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
16 15 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
17 14 (2.57%) Full-Stack Developer
18 13 (2.39%) Senior Developer
19 12 (2.21%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (9.74%) REST
2 44 (8.09%) SOAP
3 40 (7.35%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (5.88%) Kafka
5 30 (5.51%) .NET
6 22 (4.04%) Middleware
6 22 (4.04%) PySpark
7 18 (3.31%) Visualforce
8 17 (3.13%) JSON
9 16 (2.94%) React
10 15 (2.76%) XML
11 14 (2.57%) CSS
12 13 (2.39%) HTML
13 8 (1.47%) Node.js
13 8 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.47%) YAML
14 6 (1.10%) Vue
15 5 (0.92%) AWS CDK
15 5 (0.92%) gRPC
15 5 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 51 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 37 (6.80%) Data Structures
4 24 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.21%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.84%) FMCG
11 9 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.47%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.10%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.10%) Social Media
14 5 (0.92%) Reinsurance
15 4 (0.74%) Data Fabric
15 4 (0.74%) Replication
16 3 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
16 3 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.29%) Android
2 4 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (44.30%) Analytics
2 202 (37.13%) Agile
3 180 (33.09%) Data Engineering
4 173 (31.80%) ETL
5 170 (31.25%) DevOps
6 166 (30.51%) CI/CD
7 155 (28.49%) Data Architecture
8 136 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
9 131 (24.08%) Data Governance
10 127 (23.35%) AI
11 126 (23.16%) Mentoring
12 124 (22.79%) Data Pipeline
13 112 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (18.93%) Coaching
15 101 (18.57%) Data Integration
16 96 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 88 (16.18%) Decision-Making
18 84 (15.44%) Data Management
19 80 (14.71%) Asset Management
20 71 (13.05%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 237 (43.57%) SQL
2 209 (38.42%) Python
3 57 (10.48%) Java
3 57 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 44 (8.09%) C#
5 42 (7.72%) Apex Code
6 37 (6.80%) TypeScript
7 27 (4.96%) PowerShell
7 27 (4.96%) Scala
8 25 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 21 (3.86%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.02%) Bash
11 6 (1.10%) C++
11 6 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.10%) PHP
11 6 (1.10%) R
12 3 (0.55%) Swift
13 2 (0.37%) Groovy
13 2 (0.37%) SOQL
13 2 (0.37%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 94 (17.28%) Degree
2 55 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 53 (9.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.07%) Azure Certification
6 28 (5.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 26 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (4.60%) AWS Certification
9 23 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.21%) ACCA
10 12 (2.21%) CIMA
10 12 (2.21%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.55%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.37%) SAP Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (20.96%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.27%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.76%) GDPR
4 14 (2.57%) QA
5 13 (2.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 11 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.18%) HL7
7 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.18%) P3O
7 1 (0.18%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 12 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (5.88%) Terraform
2 5 (0.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.55%) Control-M
4 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.18%) Grafana
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 151 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 104 (19.12%) Databricks
3 56 (10.29%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.41%) Google
5 17 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 15 (2.76%) Informatica
7 13 (2.39%) SAP
8 12 (2.21%) Oracle
9 11 (2.02%) IBM
10 9 (1.65%) Talend
11 5 (0.92%) Foundry
12 4 (0.74%) Ab Initio
12 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.55%) BMC
13 3 (0.55%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.55%) Palantir
13 3 (0.55%) Sparx
14 2 (0.37%) Cloudera
14 2 (0.37%) iManage
14 2 (0.37%) OutSystems