Hybrid/Remote Data Management Job Trends

Data Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 82 142
Rank change year-on-year -32 +60 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 387 558 703
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.29% 4.02% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 4.22% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 229 302 478
10th Percentile £28,125 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +34.91% -15.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £122,500 £80,469
90th Percentile £95,000 £152,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -9.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Management 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 14,366 13,216 27,580
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.17% 95.27% 92.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,452 8,852 22,837
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,478 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
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 £81,250 £75,772
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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Management over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Data Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Management
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 14 (3.62%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.81%) Confluence
4 6 (1.55%) SAS
5 5 (1.29%) IIS
6 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) Apache
7 2 (0.52%) Moodle
7 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.52%) WordPress
8 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 38 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.58%) Oracle Smart View
4 7 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.26%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 20 (5.17%) Oracle Assets
1 20 (5.17%) Oracle Financials
1 20 (5.17%) Oracle General Ledger
1 20 (5.17%) Oracle Payables
1 20 (5.17%) Oracle Receivables
2 13 (3.36%) Adobe Campaign
2 13 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.84%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (2.58%) Hyperion Planning
5 9 (2.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (2.33%) Magento
5 9 (2.33%) Shopify
6 6 (1.55%) NetSuite
7 4 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.52%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.26%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 128 (33.07%) Azure
2 68 (17.57%) Power Platform
3 51 (13.18%) Snowflake
4 44 (11.37%) AWS
5 32 (8.27%) GCP
6 18 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (2.07%) dbt
10 8 (2.07%) GitHub
10 8 (2.07%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.81%) SaaS
12 5 (1.29%) Alation
12 5 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.03%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (1.03%) Collibra
14 3 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.88%) Broadband
2 8 (2.07%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (2.07%) Firewall
3 6 (1.55%) BGP
4 4 (1.03%) LAN
4 4 (1.03%) VLAN
4 4 (1.03%) WAN
5 3 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (0.78%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.78%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.78%) WebEx
6 1 (0.26%) ADSL
6 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.26%) Internet
6 1 (0.26%) MPLS
6 1 (0.26%) Network Security
6 1 (0.26%) OSPF
6 1 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (17.57%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (17.05%) Power BI
3 38 (9.82%) Metadata
4 32 (8.27%) SQL Server
5 20 (5.17%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.17%) Tableau
6 16 (4.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 15 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (3.62%) BigQuery
9 10 (2.58%) Essbase
9 10 (2.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 9 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.33%) MySQL
11 8 (2.07%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (2.07%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.55%) Power Query
13 6 (1.55%) QlikView
14 5 (1.29%) Metadata Repository
15 4 (1.03%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 20 (5.17%) Oracle Forms
2 16 (4.13%) JIRA
3 11 (2.84%) Git
4 7 (1.81%) GitLab
5 4 (1.03%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.03%) ERwin
5 4 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.78%) Maven
6 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.26%) JUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Mocha
8 1 (0.26%) Mockito
General
1 128 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 96 (24.81%) Finance
3 94 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (14.73%) Marketing
5 46 (11.89%) Public Sector
6 45 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (8.27%) Retail
8 26 (6.72%) Banking
9 21 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (5.43%) Telecoms
10 10 (2.58%) Back Office
11 9 (2.33%) Advertising
12 7 (1.81%) Law
12 7 (1.81%) Legal
13 6 (1.55%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.03%) Aviation
14 4 (1.03%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.03%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.78%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (22.22%) Senior
2 74 (19.12%) Architect
3 60 (15.50%) Data Architect
4 58 (14.99%) Analyst
5 30 (7.75%) Data Manager
6 29 (7.49%) Developer
7 28 (7.24%) Senior Analyst
8 24 (6.20%) Lead
8 24 (6.20%) Senior Manager
9 23 (5.94%) Administrator
10 21 (5.43%) Governance Manager
11 20 (5.17%) Data Governance Analyst
11 20 (5.17%) Data Governance Manager
11 20 (5.17%) Oracle Analyst
11 20 (5.17%) Senior Oracle Analyst
12 19 (4.91%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.36%) Campaign Manager
13 13 (3.36%) Consultant
13 13 (3.36%) IT Support
13 13 (3.36%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.36%) Middleware
2 12 (3.10%) REST
2 12 (3.10%) SOAP
3 5 (1.29%) .NET
3 5 (1.29%) .NET Framework
3 5 (1.29%) EDI
3 5 (1.29%) Entity Framework
3 5 (1.29%) OAuth
3 5 (1.29%) WinForms
4 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.03%) Node.js
5 3 (0.78%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.78%) Kafka
5 3 (0.78%) OpenID
5 3 (0.78%) PySpark
5 3 (0.78%) RAML
5 3 (0.78%) RESTful
5 3 (0.78%) Spring
5 3 (0.78%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.78%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.85%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.72%) Blog
2 26 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 22 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (4.39%) Social Media
5 15 (3.88%) Reference Data
6 14 (3.62%) Marketing Technology
7 13 (3.36%) Over-the-Top Content
8 12 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 12 (3.10%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.58%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.58%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.29%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.03%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.84%) Linux
2 9 (2.33%) Windows
3 3 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (36.18%) Analytics
2 91 (23.51%) Business Intelligence
3 90 (23.26%) Data Governance
4 83 (21.45%) Data Modelling
5 78 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (19.38%) Data Architecture
6 75 (19.38%) Data Strategy
7 73 (18.86%) Decision-Making
8 68 (17.57%) Visualisation
9 64 (16.54%) DevOps
10 63 (16.28%) Data Integration
11 61 (15.76%) Mentoring
12 57 (14.73%) Agile
12 57 (14.73%) CRM
12 57 (14.73%) Data Engineering
12 57 (14.73%) ERP
13 54 (13.95%) Data Visualisation
13 54 (13.95%) Roadmaps
14 52 (13.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (13.44%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 116 (29.97%) SQL
2 49 (12.66%) Python
3 16 (4.13%) T-SQL
4 14 (3.62%) Java
5 10 (2.58%) Groovy
6 5 (1.29%) C#
6 5 (1.29%) R
7 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.78%) Scala
7 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.78%) VBA
8 2 (0.52%) C++
9 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (16.28%) Degree
2 22 (5.68%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.62%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.55%) ISACA
5 6 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.29%) CISA
6 5 (1.29%) CISM
6 5 (1.29%) CISSP
6 5 (1.29%) CITP
6 5 (1.29%) SANS
7 4 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.52%) CRISC
9 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 38 (9.82%) Accessibility
3 18 (4.65%) GDPR
4 12 (3.10%) QA
5 8 (2.07%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.29%) GRC
7 5 (1.29%) NIST
7 5 (1.29%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.52%) ECSS
9 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (3.10%) Docker
2 9 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.29%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.03%) vSphere
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.88%) Terraform
2 13 (3.36%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (1.29%) RSA Archer
4 4 (1.03%) Ansible
5 3 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (0.78%) Grafana
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 125 (32.30%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.24%) Oracle
3 21 (5.43%) Google
4 20 (5.17%) Databricks
5 18 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 18 (4.65%) SAP
6 16 (4.13%) Adobe
7 12 (3.10%) Informatica
8 11 (2.84%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.58%) Cisco
9 10 (2.58%) Hyperion
10 9 (2.33%) ConnectWise
10 9 (2.33%) VMware
10 9 (2.33%) WooCommerce
11 8 (2.07%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.55%) Planon
13 5 (1.29%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.29%) Sage
13 5 (1.29%) Xamarin
13 5 (1.29%) Zoho