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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 118 94
Rank change year-on-year +36 -24 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 518 479 851
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 2.93% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.11% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 321 224 625
10th Percentile £46,104 £44,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,300 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £65,000 £63,749
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +1.96% -1.93%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £96,600 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,932 £64,875 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.34% -0.19% -

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 13,689 15,415 23,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.83% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,688 9,091 19,584
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
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 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 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 31 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.44%) Apache
3 15 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.70%) Confluence
5 6 (1.16%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.97%) CMS
7 4 (0.77%) SAS
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.39%) Mendix
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) Luigi
Applications
1 32 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.58%) Sketch
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Notion
5 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.93%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.16%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 326 (62.93%) Azure
2 122 (23.55%) Snowflake
3 121 (23.36%) AWS
4 112 (21.62%) Power Platform
5 95 (18.34%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (18.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 74 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 74 (14.29%) GitHub
8 62 (11.97%) GCP
9 59 (11.39%) dbt
10 48 (9.27%) GitHub Copilot
11 47 (9.07%) Serverless
12 43 (8.30%) SaaS
13 31 (5.98%) Amazon S3
14 24 (4.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 22 (4.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 17 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (2.70%) PowerApps
18 13 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
18 13 (2.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Broadband
2 1 (0.19%) ADSL
2 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (34.94%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (19.88%) Power BI
3 82 (15.83%) Data Lake
4 66 (12.74%) Metadata
5 44 (8.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (7.14%) Tableau
7 35 (6.76%) SQL Server
8 25 (4.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 24 (4.63%) MySQL
10 23 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (3.86%) NoSQL
13 17 (3.28%) Data Vault
13 17 (3.28%) Relational Database
13 17 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (3.09%) BigQuery
14 16 (3.09%) Data Mining
15 15 (2.90%) Delta Lake
15 15 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
16 12 (2.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 41 (7.92%) Git
2 38 (7.34%) JIRA
3 18 (3.47%) ERwin
4 17 (3.28%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.16%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.97%) git-flow
7 4 (0.77%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 198 (38.22%) Finance
2 187 (36.10%) Social Skills
3 135 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.18%) Marketing
6 30 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (5.21%) Retail
8 21 (4.05%) Law
9 12 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.93%) Banking
10 10 (1.93%) Publishing
11 9 (1.74%) Legal
12 8 (1.54%) Advertising
12 8 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.35%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.97%) Back Office
14 5 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.97%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 143 (27.61%) Architect
2 118 (22.78%) Senior
3 111 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 101 (19.50%) Data Architect
5 61 (11.78%) Developer
6 43 (8.30%) Analyst
7 40 (7.72%) Lead
7 40 (7.72%) Senior Data Engineer
8 22 (4.25%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.67%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (3.47%) Senior Architect
10 18 (3.47%) Senior Data Architect
11 17 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (3.09%) Consultant
12 16 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.70%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.70%) Data Modeller
14 13 (2.51%) Applications Architect
14 13 (2.51%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (2.32%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.27%) REST
2 38 (7.34%) SOAP
3 34 (6.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 28 (5.41%) Kafka
5 25 (4.83%) .NET
6 23 (4.44%) PySpark
7 17 (3.28%) Middleware
8 16 (3.09%) CSS
9 15 (2.90%) HTML
9 15 (2.90%) JSON
10 14 (2.70%) React
11 13 (2.51%) XML
12 12 (2.32%) Visualforce
13 8 (1.54%) Node.js
13 8 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (1.54%) YAML
14 7 (1.35%) AWS CDK
15 5 (0.97%) gRPC
15 5 (0.97%) Material-UI
16 4 (0.77%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.04%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.83%) Data Structures
3 25 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.74%) FMCG
8 9 (1.74%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.35%) Reference Data
10 6 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.16%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.97%) Reinsurance
11 5 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.58%) e-Learning
12 3 (0.58%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.35%) Android
2 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
2 4 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (43.05%) Analytics
2 211 (40.73%) Agile
3 175 (33.78%) ETL
4 174 (33.59%) DevOps
5 169 (32.63%) Data Engineering
6 161 (31.08%) CI/CD
7 151 (29.15%) Data Architecture
8 132 (25.48%) Business Intelligence
9 131 (25.29%) Data Governance
9 131 (25.29%) Mentoring
10 128 (24.71%) AI
11 120 (23.17%) Data Pipeline
12 110 (21.24%) Coaching
13 109 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (20.46%) Data Integration
15 98 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 84 (16.22%) Data Management
17 79 (15.25%) Asset Management
18 75 (14.48%) Decision-Making
19 74 (14.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 238 (45.95%) SQL
2 203 (39.19%) Python
3 51 (9.85%) JavaScript
4 50 (9.65%) Java
5 46 (8.88%) C#
6 38 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 35 (6.76%) Apex Code
8 30 (5.79%) Scala
9 25 (4.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 24 (4.63%) PowerShell
11 16 (3.09%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.93%) Bash
13 9 (1.74%) R
14 6 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.16%) PHP
15 3 (0.58%) Swift
16 2 (0.39%) Go
16 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.39%) SOQL
16 2 (0.39%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 83 (16.02%) Degree
2 52 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (7.53%) Security Cleared
4 36 (6.95%) SC Cleared
5 34 (6.56%) Azure Certification
6 28 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 28 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (4.83%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (4.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 10 (1.93%) ACCA
10 10 (1.93%) CIMA
11 8 (1.54%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.97%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.39%) DV Cleared
14 1 (0.19%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.19%) PMP
14 1 (0.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (18.34%) Data Quality
2 45 (8.69%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.70%) GDPR
4 13 (2.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 13 (2.51%) QA
5 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.19%) P3O
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (1.74%) Docker
2 7 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (6.76%) Terraform
2 6 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.58%) Control-M
4 1 (0.19%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 148 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 104 (20.08%) Databricks
3 50 (9.65%) Salesforce
4 26 (5.02%) Google
5 13 (2.51%) Informatica
6 11 (2.12%) IBM
7 10 (1.93%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.74%) SAP
8 9 (1.74%) Talend
9 8 (1.54%) Oracle
10 4 (0.77%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.58%) BMC
11 3 (0.58%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.58%) Sparx
12 2 (0.39%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.39%) iManage
12 2 (0.39%) OutSystems
12 2 (0.39%) Zend