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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 117 93
Rank change year-on-year +29 -24 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 468 502 689
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.05% 2.92% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 3.14% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 283 240 475
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £38,600
25th Percentile £54,500 £52,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

All Process and 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 13,568 15,987 19,398
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.33% 92.92% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,660 9,616 15,599
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,050 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +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 27 December 2025.

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 22 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.06%) Apache
3 15 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.99%) Confluence
5 5 (1.07%) CMS
6 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.43%) Mendix
7 2 (0.43%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) Luigi
Applications
1 29 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.64%) Sketch
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) Notion
6 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.28%) Markit EDM
3 5 (1.07%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 302 (64.53%) Azure
2 118 (25.21%) Snowflake
3 101 (21.58%) AWS
4 100 (21.37%) Power Platform
5 90 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
6 83 (17.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 71 (15.17%) GitHub
8 67 (14.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 56 (11.97%) dbt
10 48 (10.26%) GCP
10 48 (10.26%) GitHub Copilot
11 43 (9.19%) Serverless
12 40 (8.55%) SaaS
13 28 (5.98%) Amazon S3
14 19 (4.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 18 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (3.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 14 (2.99%) PowerApps
18 12 (2.56%) Power Automate
18 12 (2.56%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Broadband
2 1 (0.21%) ADSL
2 1 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (39.74%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (19.87%) Power BI
3 82 (17.52%) Data Lake
4 49 (10.47%) Metadata
5 41 (8.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 32 (6.84%) SQL Server
7 25 (5.34%) Snowflake Schema
7 25 (5.34%) Tableau
8 22 (4.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (4.06%) Data Vault
9 19 (4.06%) MySQL
10 16 (3.42%) Data Mining
10 16 (3.42%) NoSQL
10 16 (3.42%) Relational Database
11 15 (3.21%) BigQuery
12 14 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 11 (2.35%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (8.55%) JIRA
2 31 (6.62%) Git
3 18 (3.85%) ER Studio
3 18 (3.85%) ERwin
4 6 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.07%) git-flow
6 4 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 182 (38.89%) Finance
2 173 (36.97%) Social Skills
3 124 (26.50%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.34%) Marketing
6 25 (5.34%) Retail
7 21 (4.49%) Law
8 15 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.14%) Banking
10 8 (1.71%) Advertising
10 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.50%) Legal
12 5 (1.07%) Back Office
12 5 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.07%) Publishing
12 5 (1.07%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (27.78%) Architect
2 101 (21.58%) Senior
3 99 (21.15%) Data Engineer
4 93 (19.87%) Data Architect
5 49 (10.47%) Developer
6 37 (7.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 36 (7.69%) Analyst
8 31 (6.62%) Lead
9 18 (3.85%) Consultant
10 17 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.42%) Business Analyst
12 14 (2.99%) Azure Architect
12 14 (2.99%) Azure Data Architect
12 14 (2.99%) Data Modeller
13 12 (2.56%) Applications Architect
13 12 (2.56%) Business Manager
13 12 (2.56%) Insight Manager
13 12 (2.56%) Lead Data Engineer
14 11 (2.35%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.76%) REST
2 32 (6.84%) SOAP
3 29 (6.20%) Lightning Web Components
4 22 (4.70%) Kafka
5 21 (4.49%) .NET
6 19 (4.06%) PySpark
7 14 (2.99%) JSON
8 13 (2.78%) CSS
8 13 (2.78%) XML
9 12 (2.56%) HTML
10 11 (2.35%) Middleware
11 10 (2.14%) React
12 8 (1.71%) YAML
13 7 (1.50%) AWS CDK
13 7 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (1.50%) Visualforce
14 5 (1.07%) Material-UI
15 4 (0.85%) ADO
15 4 (0.85%) Node.js
16 3 (0.64%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 47 (10.04%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.07%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.85%) FMCG
8 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.85%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.64%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.64%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.64%) Mobile App
9 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
1 201 (42.95%) Agile
1 201 (42.95%) Analytics
2 164 (35.04%) ETL
3 156 (33.33%) DevOps
4 149 (31.84%) Data Engineering
5 136 (29.06%) CI/CD
6 133 (28.42%) Data Architecture
7 123 (26.28%) AI
8 122 (26.07%) Business Intelligence
9 115 (24.57%) Mentoring
10 111 (23.72%) Data Pipeline
11 110 (23.50%) Data Integration
12 105 (22.44%) Data Governance
13 97 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
14 96 (20.51%) Coaching
15 92 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
16 77 (16.45%) Asset Management
17 72 (15.38%) Clean Code
17 72 (15.38%) Data Management
18 67 (14.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 219 (46.79%) SQL
2 184 (39.32%) Python
3 44 (9.40%) Java
4 41 (8.76%) C#
5 40 (8.55%) JavaScript
6 32 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 30 (6.41%) Apex Code
7 30 (6.41%) Scala
8 29 (6.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 21 (4.49%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.78%) T-SQL
11 8 (1.71%) R
12 7 (1.50%) Bash
13 6 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.07%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.85%) Fortran
15 4 (0.85%) PHP
16 3 (0.64%) Bicep
16 3 (0.64%) Swift
17 2 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 68 (14.53%) Degree
2 47 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (7.05%) Azure Certification
4 30 (6.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.77%) Security Cleared
6 26 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 23 (4.91%) TOGAF Certification
8 22 (4.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 7 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.07%) ACCA
11 5 (1.07%) CIMA
11 5 (1.07%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.07%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 44 (9.40%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
3 13 (2.78%) 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 (6.84%) 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
1 140 (29.91%) Microsoft
2 97 (20.73%) Databricks
3 40 (8.55%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.06%) 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 (1.50%) 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%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.43%) Samsung
11 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.43%) Zend