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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 124 118
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +45
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 338 448 557
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.21% 2.61% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.81% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 185 250 376
10th Percentile £20,000 £41,250 £41,810
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,641 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £79,250 £101,875 £91,934
90th Percentile £95,000 £137,750 £108,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -7.14%

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 13,498 15,959 19,353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.40% 92.95% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8,596 9,592 15,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 28 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 (2.37%) Confluence
1 8 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.48%) IIS
2 5 (1.48%) SAS
3 2 (0.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.59%) Moodle
3 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.14%) Oracle Smart View
3 7 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (8.28%) Oracle Assets
1 28 (8.28%) Oracle Financials
1 28 (8.28%) Oracle General Ledger
1 28 (8.28%) Oracle Payables
1 28 (8.28%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (5.62%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (4.14%) Hyperion Planning
4 12 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (1.48%) Magento
5 5 (1.48%) Shopify
6 4 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.89%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.59%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.59%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.30%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 125 (36.98%) Azure
2 65 (19.23%) Power Platform
3 52 (15.38%) Snowflake
4 23 (6.80%) AWS
5 22 (6.51%) GCP
6 17 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.03%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.25%) SaaS
8 9 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.78%) GitHub
12 5 (1.48%) Alation
13 4 (1.18%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.18%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (1.18%) Collibra
13 4 (1.18%) iPaaS
13 4 (1.18%) OCI
13 4 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) Broadband
2 3 (0.89%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.59%) BGP
3 2 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (0.59%) Firewall
4 1 (0.30%) ADSL
4 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (22.78%) Data Warehouse
2 60 (17.75%) Power BI
3 32 (9.47%) Tableau
4 29 (8.58%) SQL Server
5 26 (7.69%) Metadata
6 20 (5.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.62%) Data Lake
8 18 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (4.14%) Essbase
9 14 (4.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 11 (3.25%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (2.66%) MySQL
13 8 (2.37%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (1.78%) QlikView
15 5 (1.48%) Looker
15 5 (1.48%) Metadata Repository
15 5 (1.48%) SAS EBI
15 5 (1.48%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 28 (8.28%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (3.85%) JIRA
3 9 (2.66%) Git
4 4 (1.18%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.18%) ERwin
4 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.18%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.89%) GitLab
5 3 (0.89%) Maven
5 3 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.30%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) Postman
6 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
General
1 120 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 110 (32.54%) Finance
3 94 (27.81%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.02%) Marketing
5 40 (11.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (7.40%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (5.62%) Public Sector
8 18 (5.33%) Banking
9 17 (5.03%) Retail
10 15 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.25%) Legal
11 11 (3.25%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.37%) Law
14 6 (1.78%) Advertising
14 6 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.78%) Back Office
15 5 (1.48%) Games
16 4 (1.18%) Aviation
16 4 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (22.19%) Analyst
2 67 (19.82%) Architect
3 60 (17.75%) Senior
4 50 (14.79%) Data Architect
5 38 (11.24%) Developer
6 35 (10.36%) Senior Analyst
7 28 (8.28%) Oracle Analyst
7 28 (8.28%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 22 (6.51%) Data Manager
8 22 (6.51%) Lead
9 21 (6.21%) Data Analyst
10 17 (5.03%) Business Analyst
11 15 (4.44%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.55%) Report Developer
13 11 (3.25%) Administrator
14 10 (2.96%) Consultant
14 10 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
14 10 (2.96%) ERP Analyst
15 9 (2.66%) Data Business Analyst
15 9 (2.66%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.25%) Middleware
2 9 (2.66%) REST
3 8 (2.37%) SOAP
4 5 (1.48%) .NET
4 5 (1.48%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.48%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.48%) WinForms
5 3 (0.89%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.89%) JSON
5 3 (0.89%) RAML
5 3 (0.89%) Spring
5 3 (0.89%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.89%) XML
6 2 (0.59%) CSS
6 2 (0.59%) EDI
6 2 (0.59%) Grails
6 2 (0.59%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.59%) HTML
6 2 (0.59%) OAuth
6 2 (0.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.24%) Management Information System
2 29 (8.58%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (6.51%) Blog
4 14 (4.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.55%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.07%) NHS
10 6 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.78%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.18%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.18%) Housing Association
13 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.89%) PKI
14 2 (0.59%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.59%) e-Learning
14 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.78%) Windows
2 4 (1.18%) Linux
3 2 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (36.09%) Analytics
2 98 (28.99%) Business Intelligence
3 74 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (21.30%) Data Modelling
5 70 (20.71%) Visualisation
6 69 (20.41%) Data Architecture
7 67 (19.82%) Data Governance
7 67 (19.82%) Data Integration
8 62 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (18.05%) Agile
10 58 (17.16%) Data Visualisation
11 56 (16.57%) Data Engineering
11 56 (16.57%) Decision-Making
12 51 (15.09%) ETL
13 50 (14.79%) Migration
14 49 (14.50%) DevOps
15 47 (13.91%) E-Commerce
15 47 (13.91%) ERP
16 46 (13.61%) Roadmaps
17 45 (13.31%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 124 (36.69%) SQL
2 49 (14.50%) Python
3 14 (4.14%) Groovy
3 14 (4.14%) Java
4 13 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 9 (2.66%) C#
6 6 (1.78%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.18%) Fortran
7 4 (1.18%) R
8 3 (0.89%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.59%) C++
9 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (19.82%) Degree
2 20 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.44%) DBS Check
3 15 (4.44%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.07%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.48%) CISA
7 5 (1.48%) CISM
7 5 (1.48%) CISSP
7 5 (1.48%) CRISC
8 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.59%) CFA
10 2 (0.59%) CITP
10 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (21.60%) Data Quality
2 46 (13.61%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.73%) GDPR
4 13 (3.85%) QA
5 8 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.37%) NIST
6 5 (1.48%) COBIT
6 5 (1.48%) GRC
6 5 (1.48%) ITGC
7 4 (1.18%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.89%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.59%) ECSS
9 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 14 (4.14%) Docker
2 3 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.59%) Firmware
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.37%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.78%) Terraform
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 101 (29.88%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.36%) Oracle
3 29 (8.58%) Databricks
4 20 (5.92%) Google
5 14 (4.14%) Hyperion
5 14 (4.14%) SAP
6 11 (3.25%) Informatica
7 10 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.78%) Sage
8 6 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.48%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.48%) ConnectWise
9 5 (1.48%) WooCommerce
9 5 (1.48%) Xamarin
9 5 (1.48%) Zoho
10 4 (1.18%) IBM
10 4 (1.18%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.89%) Adobe
11 3 (0.89%) Cisco
11 3 (0.89%) VMware