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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 130 88
Rank change year-on-year -37 -42 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 384 432 783
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.68% 2.61% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.80% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 163 212 351
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,325 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,772 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,191 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £122,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 18,880 15,403 21,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.36% 93.01% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,612 8,900 15,178
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 20 August 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 17 (4.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.52%) Apache
3 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 56 (14.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
3 10 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.04%) Windchill
6 3 (0.78%) Blender
6 3 (0.78%) Maya
7 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 38 (9.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (8.59%) Adobe Campaign
3 27 (7.03%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (1.56%) NetSuite
5 5 (1.30%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.26%) HFM
7 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 67 (17.45%) Power Platform
2 59 (15.36%) SaaS
3 57 (14.84%) Azure
4 40 (10.42%) AWS
5 23 (5.99%) Power Automate
6 22 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.65%) GCP
10 13 (3.39%) Entra ID
11 12 (3.13%) PowerApps
12 8 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.56%) GitHub
14 6 (1.56%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.30%) Amazon S3
16 4 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.04%) Collibra
17 3 (0.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.64%) Broadband
2 17 (4.43%) Firewall
3 16 (4.17%) VLAN
4 15 (3.91%) LAN
4 15 (3.91%) WAN
5 10 (2.60%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (2.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (2.34%) Unified Communications
6 9 (2.34%) WebEx
7 7 (1.82%) BGP
7 7 (1.82%) Network Security
7 7 (1.82%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.56%) MPLS
8 6 (1.56%) OSPF
9 4 (1.04%) DHCP
9 4 (1.04%) DNS
9 4 (1.04%) VoIP
10 3 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (14.32%) Power BI
2 26 (6.77%) Metadata
3 21 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 18 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (4.69%) Tableau
5 10 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.30%) MySQL
8 4 (1.04%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.52%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.52%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (2.08%) Git
1 8 (2.08%) GitLab
1 8 (2.08%) JIRA
2 2 (0.52%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.52%) ERwin
3 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 197 (51.30%) Social Skills
2 94 (24.48%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (23.96%) Marketing
4 83 (21.61%) Legal
5 78 (20.31%) Finance
6 39 (10.16%) Public Sector
7 32 (8.33%) Telecoms
8 31 (8.07%) Retail
9 29 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (7.29%) Law
11 23 (5.99%) Banking
12 22 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (2.08%) Military
14 7 (1.82%) Billing
15 6 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.30%) Welsh Language
17 4 (1.04%) Environmental Health
17 4 (1.04%) Local Government
18 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (31.51%) Senior
2 66 (17.19%) Senior Manager
3 49 (12.76%) Testing Manager
4 44 (11.46%) Analyst
5 37 (9.64%) Architect
5 37 (9.64%) Campaign Manager
6 34 (8.85%) Administrator
7 28 (7.29%) Marketing Manager
8 27 (7.03%) Data Architect
8 27 (7.03%) Technology Manager
9 25 (6.51%) Data Analyst
9 25 (6.51%) Product Manager
9 25 (6.51%) Senior Analyst
10 19 (4.95%) Data Manager
11 17 (4.43%) Senior Data Analyst
12 15 (3.91%) Data Governance Analyst
12 15 (3.91%) Data Governance Manager
12 15 (3.91%) Governance Manager
12 15 (3.91%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.91%) Senior Campaign Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.43%) .NET
2 15 (3.91%) ASP.NET
3 11 (2.86%) JSON
3 11 (2.86%) Terraform
4 10 (2.60%) .NET Framework
4 10 (2.60%) ASP.NET MVC
4 10 (2.60%) Classic ASP
4 10 (2.60%) Entity Framework
4 10 (2.60%) Google Maps API
4 10 (2.60%) XML
5 9 (2.34%) Node.js
5 9 (2.34%) XMPP
6 7 (1.82%) RESTful
7 6 (1.56%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.04%) Kafka
8 4 (1.04%) Middleware
8 4 (1.04%) OAuth
8 4 (1.04%) OpenID
8 4 (1.04%) PySpark
9 3 (0.78%) Godot
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.89%) Marketing Technology
2 53 (13.80%) Virtual Team
3 49 (12.76%) Product Ownership
4 38 (9.90%) Social Media
5 36 (9.38%) Management Information System
6 33 (8.59%) Over-the-Top Content
7 31 (8.07%) Blog
8 16 (4.17%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.39%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.34%) FlexPod
10 9 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (2.08%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.82%) Reference Data
13 6 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.56%) Replication
14 5 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.30%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.17%) Linux
2 12 (3.13%) Windows
3 10 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 129 (33.59%) Analytics
2 129 (33.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 103 (26.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 89 (23.18%) AI
5 87 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (21.61%) DevOps
7 80 (20.83%) CRM
8 79 (20.57%) Business Intelligence
8 79 (20.57%) Roadmaps
9 78 (20.31%) Test Automation
10 75 (19.53%) Software Engineering
11 71 (18.49%) Agile
11 71 (18.49%) Data Governance
11 71 (18.49%) Mentoring
12 69 (17.97%) Project Delivery
13 64 (16.67%) Performance Management
14 60 (15.63%) Digital Marketing
15 59 (15.36%) Enterprise Architecture
16 54 (14.06%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 117 (30.47%) Python
2 70 (18.23%) C#
3 66 (17.19%) JavaScript
4 62 (16.15%) SQL
5 54 (14.06%) TypeScript
6 50 (13.02%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.60%) Java
8 6 (1.56%) Scala
9 2 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.26%) VBA
10 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (8.85%) Degree
2 22 (5.73%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.34%) CIPD
5 8 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.56%) PMP
8 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.78%) CCNA
10 3 (0.78%) CCNP
10 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.52%) CITP
12 1 (0.26%) OCP
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (22.40%) Data Quality
2 67 (17.45%) QA
3 50 (13.02%) GDPR
4 21 (5.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 13 (3.39%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.04%) Def Stans
7 4 (1.04%) ISO 9000
7 4 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.52%) IFRS
8 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.52%) PERC
8 2 (0.52%) PMO
8 2 (0.52%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.26%) ECSS
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.86%) Docker
3 7 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (1.56%) vSphere
5 4 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (3.65%) Ansible
2 12 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.34%) Cisco CUCM
3 9 (2.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 91 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.85%) Adobe
3 20 (5.21%) Salesforce
4 16 (4.17%) Cisco
5 13 (3.39%) Google
6 12 (3.13%) Databricks
6 12 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 12 (3.13%) Oracle
6 12 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.86%) SAP
8 10 (2.60%) VMware
9 9 (2.34%) Splunk
10 8 (2.08%) Informatica
11 7 (1.82%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.56%) IFS
12 6 (1.56%) NetApp
13 4 (1.04%) CheckPoint
13 4 (1.04%) Epicor
13 4 (1.04%) HubSpot
13 4 (1.04%) Infor