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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 73 109
Rank change year-on-year -40 +36 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 387 529 871
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.22% 4.03% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 4.25% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 226 293 480
10th Percentile £26,250 £41,400 £37,161
25th Percentile £41,250 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +33.33% -12.74%
75th Percentile £68,938 £122,500 £80,644
90th Percentile £95,000 £152,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,591 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.55% +25.00% -7.69%

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 14,510 12,456 29,185
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.79% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 10,123 8,932 23,488
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 14 April 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 13 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.78%) SAS
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) Moodle
5 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.52%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (2.58%) Oracle Smart View
5 6 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.26%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 28 (7.24%) Adobe Campaign
2 20 (5.17%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (5.17%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (5.17%) Oracle General Ledger
2 20 (5.17%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (5.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 13 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (2.84%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (2.58%) Hyperion Planning
6 9 (2.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (2.33%) Magento
6 9 (2.33%) Shopify
7 7 (1.81%) NetSuite
8 4 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.26%) HFM
9 1 (0.26%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 111 (28.68%) Azure
2 64 (16.54%) Power Platform
3 44 (11.37%) AWS
4 41 (10.59%) Snowflake
5 24 (6.20%) GCP
6 18 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (3.62%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 9 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (2.07%) dbt
10 8 (2.07%) SaaS
11 7 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.29%) Collibra
12 5 (1.29%) GitHub
13 4 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.03%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (0.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.75%) Broadband
2 11 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
2 11 (2.84%) Firewall
3 7 (1.81%) LAN
3 7 (1.81%) VLAN
3 7 (1.81%) WAN
4 6 (1.55%) BGP
4 6 (1.55%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (1.55%) Unified Communications
4 6 (1.55%) WebEx
5 3 (0.78%) PuTTY
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 63 (16.28%) Power BI
2 52 (13.44%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (7.75%) Metadata
4 23 (5.94%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.36%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.36%) Tableau
6 11 (2.84%) BigQuery
7 10 (2.58%) Essbase
7 10 (2.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 10 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (2.07%) BusinessObjects
8 8 (2.07%) MySQL
9 7 (1.81%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.29%) Power Query
11 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.78%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (5.17%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (3.10%) JIRA
3 9 (2.33%) Git
4 8 (2.07%) GitLab
5 3 (0.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.78%) Maven
5 3 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.26%) ERwin
7 1 (0.26%) Mocha
7 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 130 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 91 (23.51%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (22.74%) Finance
4 75 (19.38%) Marketing
5 47 (12.14%) Public Sector
6 46 (11.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (8.01%) Retail
8 25 (6.46%) Banking
9 23 (5.94%) Telecoms
10 20 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (3.10%) Back Office
12 8 (2.07%) Advertising
13 5 (1.29%) Law
13 5 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.03%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.78%) Aviation
16 2 (0.52%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 93 (24.03%) Senior
2 63 (16.28%) Architect
3 57 (14.73%) Analyst
4 53 (13.70%) Data Architect
5 31 (8.01%) Senior Manager
6 28 (7.24%) Campaign Manager
6 28 (7.24%) Senior Analyst
7 26 (6.72%) Data Manager
8 25 (6.46%) Administrator
9 24 (6.20%) Lead
10 22 (5.68%) Developer
11 21 (5.43%) Governance Manager
11 21 (5.43%) Product Manager
12 20 (5.17%) Data Engineer
12 20 (5.17%) Data Governance Analyst
12 20 (5.17%) Data Governance Manager
12 20 (5.17%) Oracle Analyst
12 20 (5.17%) Senior Oracle Analyst
13 16 (4.13%) Applications Support
14 14 (3.62%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.10%) Middleware
1 12 (3.10%) REST
1 12 (3.10%) SOAP
2 7 (1.81%) EDI
3 6 (1.55%) XMPP
4 5 (1.29%) Node.js
4 5 (1.29%) OAuth
5 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.03%) OpenID
6 3 (0.78%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.78%) Kafka
6 3 (0.78%) PySpark
6 3 (0.78%) RAML
7 2 (0.52%) Grails
7 2 (0.52%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.52%) JSON
7 2 (0.52%) Playwright
7 2 (0.52%) RESTful
7 2 (0.52%) Spring
7 2 (0.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.89%) Management Information System
2 38 (9.82%) Product Ownership
3 32 (8.27%) Social Media
4 29 (7.49%) Marketing Technology
5 28 (7.24%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (6.72%) Blog
7 16 (4.13%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.36%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.84%) Reference Data
10 10 (2.58%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.58%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.55%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.29%) Replication
13 5 (1.29%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.29%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.36%) Linux
2 7 (1.81%) Windows
3 5 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (37.47%) Analytics
2 89 (23.00%) Decision-Making
3 87 (22.48%) Business Intelligence
4 86 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 79 (20.41%) Data Strategy
6 78 (20.16%) Data Modelling
7 76 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (17.57%) Data Architecture
9 65 (16.80%) Visualisation
10 63 (16.28%) Roadmaps
11 62 (16.02%) Data Integration
12 60 (15.50%) CRM
13 59 (15.25%) ERP
14 51 (13.18%) Data Visualisation
15 50 (12.92%) Customer Experience
15 50 (12.92%) DevOps
15 50 (12.92%) Mentoring
16 49 (12.66%) Data Engineering
17 48 (12.40%) E-Commerce
18 47 (12.14%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 100 (25.84%) SQL
2 49 (12.66%) Python
3 13 (3.36%) Java
4 12 (3.10%) T-SQL
5 10 (2.58%) Groovy
6 5 (1.29%) R
7 4 (1.03%) Scala
8 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.78%) VBA
9 2 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.26%) C#
10 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 56 (14.47%) Degree
2 24 (6.20%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.39%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.84%) DBS Check
5 10 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.81%) CITP
7 6 (1.55%) ISACA
8 5 (1.29%) CISA
8 5 (1.29%) CISM
8 5 (1.29%) CISSP
8 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.29%) SANS
9 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.52%) CRISC
10 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (20.67%) Data Quality
2 36 (9.30%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.39%) GDPR
4 13 (3.36%) QA
5 7 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.29%) GRC
6 5 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.29%) NIST
6 5 (1.29%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.52%) ECSS
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
8 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (3.10%) Docker
2 11 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.55%) vSphere
4 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (3.62%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.62%) Terraform
2 7 (1.81%) Ansible
3 6 (1.55%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (1.55%) Grafana
4 5 (1.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 5 (1.29%) RSA Archer
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 125 (32.30%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.01%) Adobe
3 30 (7.75%) Oracle
4 19 (4.91%) SAP
5 17 (4.39%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.88%) Databricks
7 14 (3.62%) Google
8 13 (3.36%) Cisco
8 13 (3.36%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.84%) VMware
10 10 (2.58%) Hyperion
10 10 (2.58%) Informatica
11 9 (2.33%) ConnectWise
11 9 (2.33%) Planon
11 9 (2.33%) WooCommerce
12 6 (1.55%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.55%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.55%) Splunk
13 5 (1.29%) NetApp