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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 136 156
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 -62
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 546 432 544
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.45% 2.60% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.80% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 385 270 363
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,778 £52,413
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -6.07% +4.87%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £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 18,492 15,420 22,187
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.05% 92.98% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 13,404 9,120 16,093
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 2 August 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 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 24 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (4.03%) Apache
4 12 (2.20%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.92%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.73%) SAS
7 3 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 31 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.55%) Blender
3 3 (0.55%) Maya
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (38.46%) Azure
2 168 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 112 (20.51%) AWS
4 70 (12.82%) GCP
5 59 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (7.88%) Snowflake
7 39 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (5.13%) dbt
8 28 (5.13%) Serverless
9 26 (4.76%) SaaS
10 22 (4.03%) Amazon S3
11 21 (3.85%) GitHub
12 20 (3.66%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (2.56%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 11 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 45 (8.24%) Broadband
2 4 (0.73%) NGN
3 2 (0.37%) SMS
4 1 (0.18%) 4G
4 1 (0.18%) 5G
4 1 (0.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (28.21%) Power BI
2 96 (17.58%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (16.48%) Metadata
4 58 (10.62%) Data Lake
5 46 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (8.42%) Relational Database
5 46 (8.42%) SQL Server
6 43 (7.88%) Tableau
7 35 (6.41%) Semantic Layer
8 34 (6.23%) BigQuery
9 29 (5.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (4.21%) MongoDB
11 22 (4.03%) Delta Lake
12 21 (3.85%) Big Data
13 20 (3.66%) NoSQL
13 20 (3.66%) Star Schema
14 18 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (3.11%) SAP BW
16 16 (2.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (8.06%) Git
2 24 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.28%) JIRA
4 6 (1.10%) GitLab
5 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.55%) MLflow
5 3 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.18%) Ant
6 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.18%) ERwin
6 1 (0.18%) Mocha
6 1 (0.18%) Postman
6 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.18%) Toad
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 206 (37.73%) Social Skills
2 155 (28.39%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (25.27%) Finance
4 80 (14.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (11.90%) Public Sector
6 46 (8.42%) Law
7 28 (5.13%) Retail
8 26 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (3.66%) Marketing
10 15 (2.75%) Banking
10 15 (2.75%) Legal
11 14 (2.56%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.28%) Games
14 5 (0.92%) Billing
14 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.73%) Health Technology
15 4 (0.73%) Legal Technology
15 4 (0.73%) Military
16 3 (0.55%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 150 (27.47%) Data Engineer
2 131 (23.99%) Architect
3 102 (18.68%) Senior
4 87 (15.93%) Data Architect
5 69 (12.64%) Analyst
6 60 (10.99%) Lead
7 54 (9.89%) Developer
8 38 (6.96%) Senior Data Engineer
9 34 (6.23%) Data Analyst
10 26 (4.76%) Senior Architect
11 23 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
12 20 (3.66%) Business Analyst
13 19 (3.48%) Senior Data Architect
14 18 (3.30%) Consultant
15 15 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 15 (2.75%) Financial Analyst
16 14 (2.56%) Software Engineer
17 13 (2.38%) Data Modeller
17 13 (2.38%) Technical Architect
18 12 (2.20%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.34%) PySpark
2 43 (7.88%) REST
3 37 (6.78%) Node.js
4 31 (5.68%) Kafka
5 18 (3.30%) JSON
6 16 (2.93%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (2.56%) Middleware
7 14 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (2.38%) CSS
8 13 (2.38%) React
8 13 (2.38%) SOAP
9 12 (2.20%) .NET
10 10 (1.83%) XML
11 9 (1.65%) RESTful
12 8 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
13 7 (1.28%) Spring
13 7 (1.28%) Visualforce
14 6 (1.10%) Django
14 6 (1.10%) LangChain
14 6 (1.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 54 (9.89%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.21%) Social Media
4 22 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.30%) Management Information System
6 17 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.83%) Blog
10 10 (1.83%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.47%) Data Fabric
11 8 (1.47%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.28%) Reference Data
12 7 (1.28%) Replication
12 7 (1.28%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.10%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (45.42%) Analytics
2 199 (36.45%) Business Intelligence
3 170 (31.14%) AI
4 166 (30.40%) Data Engineering
5 164 (30.04%) Data Architecture
6 159 (29.12%) Decision-Making
7 133 (24.36%) Data Pipeline
8 132 (24.18%) Agile
9 126 (23.08%) Data Strategy
9 126 (23.08%) ETL
9 126 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (22.71%) Data Governance
11 123 (22.53%) CI/CD
12 85 (15.57%) Machine Learning
13 81 (14.84%) Roadmaps
14 79 (14.47%) DevOps
15 77 (14.10%) Mentoring
16 76 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 74 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 67 (12.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 254 (46.52%) SQL
2 216 (39.56%) Python
3 37 (6.78%) Java
4 35 (6.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.40%) Scala
7 21 (3.85%) T-SQL
8 20 (3.66%) TypeScript
9 18 (3.30%) C#
10 15 (2.75%) Apex Code
11 14 (2.56%) Bicep
12 11 (2.01%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.83%) C++
14 9 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (1.47%) R
16 7 (1.28%) Go
17 4 (0.73%) Bash
17 4 (0.73%) SPARQL
18 3 (0.55%) Groovy
18 3 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 64 (11.72%) Degree
3 56 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.40%) Azure Certification
5 20 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.20%) SnowPro
9 11 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.65%) CIPD
11 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.73%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.37%) IIBA
15 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.18%) ACCA
16 1 (0.18%) CBAP
16 1 (0.18%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (36.08%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.33%) GDPR
3 21 (3.85%) QA
4 18 (3.30%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.73%) PERC
7 3 (0.55%) IFRS
7 3 (0.55%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
7 3 (0.55%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.55%) UCITS
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.18%) HL7
8 1 (0.18%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (5.68%) Docker
2 4 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (7.14%) Terraform
2 14 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.73%) Ansible
4 3 (0.55%) Packer
5 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 144 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 99 (18.13%) Databricks
3 45 (8.24%) Oracle
4 40 (7.33%) SAP
5 35 (6.41%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.83%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.47%) Google
8 7 (1.28%) Foundry
8 7 (1.28%) HubSpot
8 7 (1.28%) Informatica
9 6 (1.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.73%) Epicor
11 4 (0.73%) IBM
11 4 (0.73%) IFS
11 4 (0.73%) Infor
12 3 (0.55%) BiZZdesign
12 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.55%) TOWER Software