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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 121 122
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 364 457 586
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.38% 2.78% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.97% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 214 259 393
10th Percentile £20,000 £41,250 £38,734
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,125 £48,891
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £75,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +22.95% -14.38%
75th Percentile £79,125 £122,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £152,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,285 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% +15.66% -10.71%

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 13,352 15,391 20,337
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 93.78% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,502 9,047 16,467
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
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 £82,300 £78,750
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 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 16 January 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 8 (2.20%) Confluence
1 8 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.65%) SAS
3 5 (1.37%) IIS
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.55%) Moodle
4 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.85%) Oracle Smart View
3 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (7.69%) Oracle Assets
1 28 (7.69%) Oracle Financials
1 28 (7.69%) Oracle General Ledger
1 28 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
1 28 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (5.22%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (3.85%) Hyperion Planning
4 10 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (1.37%) Magento
5 5 (1.37%) Shopify
6 4 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.82%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.55%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.55%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.27%) Primavera
9 1 (0.27%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 135 (37.09%) Azure
2 68 (18.68%) Power Platform
3 52 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 36 (9.89%) AWS
5 30 (8.24%) GCP
6 18 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.75%) SaaS
9 9 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.92%) GitHub
12 6 (1.65%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.65%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.37%) Alation
14 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.10%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (1.10%) Collibra
14 4 (1.10%) dbt
14 4 (1.10%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.10%) BGP
1 4 (1.10%) Broadband
1 4 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (1.10%) Firewall
2 3 (0.82%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.27%) ADSL
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (20.60%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (17.31%) Power BI
3 35 (9.62%) Metadata
4 31 (8.52%) Tableau
5 28 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.04%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (3.85%) Essbase
9 14 (3.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 12 (3.30%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.47%) MySQL
12 8 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.65%) QlikView
14 5 (1.37%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (1.37%) SAS EBI
15 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (3.57%) JIRA
3 10 (2.75%) Git
4 4 (1.10%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.10%) ERwin
4 4 (1.10%) GitLab
4 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.82%) Maven
5 3 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.55%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Mocha
7 1 (0.27%) Mockito
7 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 133 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 114 (31.32%) Finance
3 107 (29.40%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (11.81%) Marketing
5 41 (11.26%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (5.77%) Banking
8 18 (4.95%) Retail
9 14 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.02%) Legal
10 11 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.47%) Law
13 6 (1.65%) Advertising
13 6 (1.65%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.37%) Back Office
15 4 (1.10%) Aviation
15 4 (1.10%) Games
15 4 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (21.70%) Senior
2 76 (20.88%) Architect
3 75 (20.60%) Analyst
4 60 (16.48%) Data Architect
5 36 (9.89%) Developer
6 33 (9.07%) Senior Analyst
7 31 (8.52%) Data Manager
8 28 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
8 28 (7.69%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 26 (7.14%) Lead
10 21 (5.77%) Data Analyst
11 18 (4.95%) Governance Manager
12 17 (4.67%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.67%) Data Governance Analyst
12 17 (4.67%) Data Governance Manager
13 16 (4.40%) Business Analyst
14 14 (3.85%) Senior Manager
15 13 (3.57%) Consultant
16 12 (3.30%) Report Developer
17 10 (2.75%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.02%) Middleware
2 9 (2.47%) REST
3 8 (2.20%) SOAP
4 5 (1.37%) .NET
4 5 (1.37%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.37%) EDI
4 5 (1.37%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.37%) WinForms
5 4 (1.10%) JSON
6 3 (0.82%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.82%) PySpark
6 3 (0.82%) RAML
6 3 (0.82%) RESTful
6 3 (0.82%) Spring
6 3 (0.82%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.82%) XML
7 2 (0.55%) CSS
7 2 (0.55%) OAuth
7 2 (0.55%) Pandas
7 2 (0.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.44%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (6.32%) Blog
4 14 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.30%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.92%) NHS
10 6 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.65%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.37%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.10%) Housing Association
12 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.82%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.65%) Linux
1 6 (1.65%) Windows
2 2 (0.55%) VMS
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (35.99%) Analytics
2 97 (26.65%) Business Intelligence
3 88 (24.18%) Data Governance
4 82 (22.53%) Data Modelling
5 80 (21.98%) Data Architecture
5 80 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (20.05%) Visualisation
7 70 (19.23%) Data Strategy
8 68 (18.68%) Data Integration
9 67 (18.41%) Agile
10 62 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (16.76%) DevOps
12 59 (16.21%) Data Visualisation
13 58 (15.93%) Coaching
14 56 (15.38%) Data Engineering
15 55 (15.11%) Decision-Making
16 52 (14.29%) ETL
17 51 (14.01%) Mentoring
18 50 (13.74%) Migration
19 49 (13.46%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 120 (32.97%) SQL
2 45 (12.36%) Python
3 15 (4.12%) Java
4 14 (3.85%) Groovy
5 12 (3.30%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.92%) C#
7 4 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.82%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.55%) C++
9 2 (0.55%) Fortran
9 2 (0.55%) R
10 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (17.58%) Degree
2 23 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.49%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.12%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.47%) CISA
5 9 (2.47%) CISM
5 9 (2.47%) CISSP
6 7 (1.92%) CRISC
6 7 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.37%) CITP
7 5 (1.37%) ISACA
7 5 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.10%) SANS
9 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (22.80%) Data Quality
2 46 (12.64%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.85%) QA
4 13 (3.57%) GDPR
5 12 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.75%) NIST
7 9 (2.47%) GRC
8 5 (1.37%) COBIT
8 5 (1.37%) ITGC
9 4 (1.10%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.55%) ECSS
10 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (3.57%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.10%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.55%) Firmware
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.75%) Terraform
2 9 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.10%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 110 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.62%) Oracle
3 26 (7.14%) Databricks
4 25 (6.87%) Google
5 17 (4.67%) SAP
6 14 (3.85%) Hyperion
7 13 (3.57%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.02%) Informatica
9 7 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.65%) Planon
11 5 (1.37%) Cisco
11 5 (1.37%) ConnectWise
11 5 (1.37%) Sage
11 5 (1.37%) VMware
11 5 (1.37%) WooCommerce
11 5 (1.37%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.37%) Zoho
12 4 (1.10%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.10%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.10%) IBM