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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 136 118
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 348 440 570
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.28% 2.34% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.56% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 192 240 403
10th Percentile £20,000 £37,975 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £43,106 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £95,750
90th Percentile £110,675 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%

All Process and 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 13,775 17,158 19,587
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 91.24% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,682 10,397 15,831
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 9 December 2025.

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 (2.30%) Confluence
1 8 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.44%) IIS
2 5 (1.44%) SAS
3 4 (1.15%) Apache
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.86%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.57%) Moodle
5 2 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.45%) Oracle Smart View
3 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (6.90%) Oracle Assets
1 24 (6.90%) Oracle Financials
1 24 (6.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 24 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
1 24 (6.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 17 (4.89%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (3.45%) Hyperion Planning
4 10 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.15%) Adaptiv
5 4 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.57%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.57%) Magento
7 2 (0.57%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.57%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.57%) Shopify
8 1 (0.29%) Primavera
8 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (35.92%) Azure
2 65 (18.68%) Power Platform
3 52 (14.94%) Snowflake
4 27 (7.76%) GCP
5 24 (6.90%) AWS
6 16 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.87%) SaaS
9 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.72%) Collibra
11 6 (1.72%) GitHub
12 5 (1.44%) Alation
12 5 (1.44%) iPaaS
12 5 (1.44%) PowerApps
13 4 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.15%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (1.15%) OCI
14 3 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) Broadband
1 2 (0.57%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.29%) ADSL
2 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (23.28%) Data Warehouse
2 59 (16.95%) Power BI
3 37 (10.63%) Tableau
4 27 (7.76%) SQL Server
5 26 (7.47%) Metadata
6 20 (5.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (5.17%) Data Lake
8 16 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (3.45%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.45%) Essbase
9 12 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 11 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.59%) MySQL
12 8 (2.30%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (2.01%) Tick Data
14 6 (1.72%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.72%) QlikView
15 5 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.44%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 24 (6.90%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (2.87%) JIRA
3 8 (2.30%) Git
4 4 (1.15%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.15%) ERwin
4 4 (1.15%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.57%) GitLab
6 2 (0.57%) Maven
6 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Mockito
7 1 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 133 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 117 (33.62%) Finance
3 94 (27.01%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.36%) Marketing
5 38 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (7.18%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (6.61%) Banking
8 21 (6.03%) Retail
9 16 (4.60%) Public Sector
10 15 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (4.02%) Manufacturing
12 11 (3.16%) Legal
13 9 (2.59%) Law
14 7 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.72%) Advertising
15 6 (1.72%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.72%) Games
16 5 (1.44%) Billing
17 4 (1.15%) Back Office
17 4 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (21.84%) Analyst
2 67 (19.25%) Architect
3 57 (16.38%) Senior
4 50 (14.37%) Data Architect
5 40 (11.49%) Developer
6 31 (8.91%) Senior Analyst
7 24 (6.90%) Data Analyst
7 24 (6.90%) Oracle Analyst
7 24 (6.90%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 22 (6.32%) Data Manager
9 21 (6.03%) Lead
10 19 (5.46%) Business Analyst
11 16 (4.60%) Data Engineer
12 15 (4.31%) Administrator
13 14 (4.02%) Consultant
14 12 (3.45%) Report Developer
15 9 (2.59%) Data Consultant
15 9 (2.59%) Data Warehouse Developer
15 9 (2.59%) ETL Developer
15 9 (2.59%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.30%) Middleware
2 7 (2.01%) .NET
3 6 (1.72%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.44%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.44%) REST
4 5 (1.44%) WinForms
5 4 (1.15%) SOAP
6 3 (0.86%) JSON
6 3 (0.86%) Spring
6 3 (0.86%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.86%) XML
7 2 (0.57%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.57%) CSS
7 2 (0.57%) Grails
7 2 (0.57%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.57%) HTML
7 2 (0.57%) OAuth
7 2 (0.57%) Pandas
7 2 (0.57%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.78%) Management Information System
2 27 (7.76%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (6.32%) Blog
4 15 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.45%) Reference Data
7 11 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.01%) NHS
10 6 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.72%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.72%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
13 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.86%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.86%) IoT
13 3 (0.86%) Market Risk
13 3 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.01%) Windows
2 3 (0.86%) Linux
3 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (35.92%) Analytics
2 99 (28.45%) Business Intelligence
3 80 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (21.26%) Data Modelling
5 70 (20.11%) Data Governance
6 68 (19.54%) Visualisation
7 67 (19.25%) Data Architecture
8 66 (18.97%) Agile
9 65 (18.68%) Data Integration
10 62 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (17.53%) Data Engineering
12 59 (16.95%) Data Visualisation
12 59 (16.95%) Decision-Making
13 50 (14.37%) ETL
14 49 (14.08%) AI
15 48 (13.79%) Migration
16 46 (13.22%) DevOps
17 43 (12.36%) E-Commerce
18 42 (12.07%) Data Strategy
18 42 (12.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 124 (35.63%) SQL
2 54 (15.52%) Python
3 16 (4.60%) Java
4 12 (3.45%) Groovy
5 11 (3.16%) C#
6 10 (2.87%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.01%) R
8 6 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.15%) Fortran
10 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.57%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (19.54%) Degree
2 20 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.60%) DBS Check
4 11 (3.16%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.59%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.72%) CFA
7 6 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.72%) PMP
8 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.44%) CISA
8 5 (1.44%) CISM
8 5 (1.44%) CISSP
8 5 (1.44%) CRISC
9 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (22.41%) Data Quality
2 45 (12.93%) Accessibility
3 21 (6.03%) GDPR
4 12 (3.45%) QA
5 10 (2.87%) NIST
6 8 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.44%) COBIT
7 5 (1.44%) GRC
7 5 (1.44%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.44%) ITGC
8 4 (1.15%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.57%) ECSS
9 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 17 (4.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Firmware
2 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.44%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 100 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.62%) Databricks
2 30 (8.62%) Oracle
3 26 (7.47%) Google
4 14 (4.02%) SAP
5 12 (3.45%) Hyperion
5 12 (3.45%) Informatica
6 9 (2.59%) Alteryx
6 9 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.72%) IBM
7 6 (1.72%) Murex
7 6 (1.72%) Sage
8 5 (1.44%) Xamarin
8 5 (1.44%) Zoho
9 4 (1.15%) FIS
10 3 (0.86%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.86%) Teradata
11 2 (0.57%) Adobe
11 2 (0.57%) HubSpot