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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 98 103
Rank change year-on-year -58 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 323 571 958
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.64% 3.78% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 3.99% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 170 299 498
10th Percentile £31,475 £36,950 £36,653
25th Percentile £42,863 £52,500 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +33.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,750 £122,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £152,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,450 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.93% +12.50% -4.76%

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 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 9 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) SAS
4 2 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (1.24%) Windchill
6 3 (0.93%) Blender
6 3 (0.93%) Maya
7 2 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.31%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 34 (10.53%) Adobe Campaign
2 13 (4.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.86%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (1.86%) Magento
3 6 (1.86%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.86%) Shopify
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.93%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.62%) Hyperion Planning
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.31%) HFM
7 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.31%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 70 (21.67%) Power Platform
2 67 (20.74%) Azure
3 46 (14.24%) AWS
4 23 (7.12%) GCP
5 21 (6.50%) Power Automate
6 16 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (2.79%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.48%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.48%) dbt
10 7 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.17%) GitHub
10 7 (2.17%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.86%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.86%) Snowflake
12 5 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.24%) SaaS
14 3 (0.93%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.84%) Broadband
2 15 (4.64%) Firewall
3 14 (4.33%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (3.41%) LAN
4 11 (3.41%) WAN
5 10 (3.10%) VLAN
6 9 (2.79%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (2.79%) Unified Communications
6 9 (2.79%) WebEx
7 7 (2.17%) BGP
8 2 (0.62%) MPLS
8 2 (0.62%) OSPF
9 1 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.31%) Network Security
9 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.27%) Power BI
2 24 (7.43%) Metadata
3 20 (6.19%) Tableau
4 12 (3.72%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.10%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.17%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.93%) GIS
10 3 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.93%) Power Query
10 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.62%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.62%) Essbase
11 2 (0.62%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (0.31%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (2.17%) JIRA
2 6 (1.86%) GitLab
3 4 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.93%) Git
5 2 (0.62%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.31%) ERwin
6 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.31%) Mocha
6 1 (0.31%) Toad
General
1 125 (38.70%) Social Skills
2 89 (27.55%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (27.55%) Finance
3 64 (19.81%) Marketing
4 54 (16.72%) Public Sector
5 36 (11.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (9.60%) Retail
7 30 (9.29%) Telecoms
8 24 (7.43%) Banking
9 20 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.79%) Back Office
11 6 (1.86%) Billing
11 6 (1.86%) Law
12 4 (1.24%) Advertising
12 4 (1.24%) Environmental Health
12 4 (1.24%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.24%) Legal
12 4 (1.24%) Military
13 3 (0.93%) Humanities
13 3 (0.93%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 94 (29.10%) Senior
2 55 (17.03%) Analyst
3 36 (11.15%) Administrator
3 36 (11.15%) Campaign Manager
4 34 (10.53%) Architect
4 34 (10.53%) Data Manager
5 33 (10.22%) Senior Manager
6 28 (8.67%) Data Governance Analyst
6 28 (8.67%) Data Governance Manager
6 28 (8.67%) Governance Manager
6 28 (8.67%) Senior Analyst
7 26 (8.05%) Data Analyst
7 26 (8.05%) Data Architect
7 26 (8.05%) Product Manager
8 20 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 20 (6.19%) Lead
9 17 (5.26%) Senior Data Analyst
10 16 (4.95%) Applications Support
10 16 (4.95%) Senior Campaign Manager
11 13 (4.02%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.10%) Node.js
2 9 (2.79%) XMPP
3 7 (2.17%) EDI
4 6 (1.86%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.86%) Middleware
4 6 (1.86%) REST
4 6 (1.86%) SOAP
5 5 (1.55%) Kafka
5 5 (1.55%) OAuth
6 4 (1.24%) OpenID
7 3 (0.93%) Django
7 3 (0.93%) Express.js
7 3 (0.93%) Godot
7 3 (0.93%) React
7 3 (0.93%) RESTful
7 3 (0.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 3 (0.93%) Unreal Engine
7 3 (0.93%) WebXR
8 2 (0.62%) Playwright
8 2 (0.62%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.17%) Product Ownership
2 40 (12.38%) Social Media
3 35 (10.84%) Management Information System
3 35 (10.84%) Marketing Technology
4 34 (10.53%) Over-the-Top Content
5 20 (6.19%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.72%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.10%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.79%) Blog
8 9 (2.79%) FlexPod
8 9 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
9 7 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.17%) Reference Data
9 7 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.86%) Replication
11 5 (1.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.41%) Linux
2 6 (1.86%) Windows
2 6 (1.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (36.22%) Analytics
2 106 (32.82%) Decision-Making
3 88 (27.24%) Data Governance
4 87 (26.93%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (21.98%) Business Intelligence
5 71 (21.98%) Roadmaps
6 62 (19.20%) CRM
7 56 (17.34%) Data Strategy
8 53 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (15.79%) Agile
10 47 (14.55%) Data Modelling
11 44 (13.62%) DevOps
12 43 (13.31%) Data Analysis
13 42 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 41 (12.69%) Visualisation
15 38 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (11.46%) Mentoring
17 36 (11.15%) AI
17 36 (11.15%) Customer Experience
17 36 (11.15%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (22.29%) SQL
2 63 (19.50%) Python
3 10 (3.10%) Java
4 8 (2.48%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.17%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.86%) Scala
7 3 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.93%) R
7 3 (0.93%) VBA
8 2 (0.62%) C#
8 2 (0.62%) Groovy
8 2 (0.62%) PHP
9 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (8.67%) Degree
2 25 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.48%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.17%) CITP
6 5 (1.55%) CISA
6 5 (1.55%) CISM
6 5 (1.55%) CISSP
6 5 (1.55%) ISACA
6 5 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.55%) PMP
6 5 (1.55%) SANS
7 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.93%) CIPD
8 2 (0.62%) CRISC
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (26.93%) Data Quality
2 33 (10.22%) GDPR
3 21 (6.50%) QA
4 14 (4.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.55%) GRC
7 5 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.55%) NIST
7 5 (1.55%) NIST 800
8 4 (1.24%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.24%) ISO 9000
8 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.62%) PMO
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.31%) SLA
10 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.10%) Docker
3 9 (2.79%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (1.86%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (1.86%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (4.95%) Terraform
2 13 (4.02%) Ansible
2 13 (4.02%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.79%) Cisco CUCM
3 9 (2.79%) Grafana
4 5 (1.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 5 (1.55%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (26.93%) Microsoft
2 38 (11.76%) Adobe
3 21 (6.50%) Salesforce
4 16 (4.95%) Cisco
5 12 (3.72%) VMware
6 11 (3.41%) Google
7 10 (3.10%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.10%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.79%) Oracle
8 9 (2.79%) Planon
8 9 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.79%) Splunk
9 8 (2.48%) Databricks
10 7 (2.17%) HubSpot
10 7 (2.17%) SAP
11 6 (1.86%) CheckPoint
11 6 (1.86%) ConnectWise
11 6 (1.86%) NetApp
11 6 (1.86%) WooCommerce
12 4 (1.24%) OpenAI