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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 115 119
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 362 471 596
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.36% 2.87% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.05% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 211 272 402
10th Percentile £20,000 £41,250 £38,734
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £77,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +27.05% -14.38%
75th Percentile £78,125 £122,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £152,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.24% +16.00% -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 13,337 15,436 21,353
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.10% 93.91% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8,485 9,087 17,391
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £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 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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 18 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 (2.21%) Confluence
1 8 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.66%) SAS
3 5 (1.38%) IIS
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.55%) Moodle
4 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.87%) Oracle Smart View
3 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.28%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (7.73%) Oracle Assets
1 28 (7.73%) Oracle Financials
1 28 (7.73%) Oracle General Ledger
1 28 (7.73%) Oracle Payables
1 28 (7.73%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (5.25%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (3.87%) Hyperion Planning
4 10 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (1.38%) Magento
5 5 (1.38%) Shopify
6 4 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.83%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.55%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.55%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.28%) Primavera
9 1 (0.28%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 134 (37.02%) Azure
2 67 (18.51%) Power Platform
3 51 (14.09%) Snowflake
4 36 (9.94%) AWS
5 30 (8.29%) GCP
6 18 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.76%) SaaS
9 9 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (1.93%) GitHub
12 6 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.38%) Alation
13 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
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 (0.83%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.28%) ADSL
3 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (20.44%) Data Warehouse
2 62 (17.13%) Power BI
3 35 (9.67%) Metadata
4 31 (8.56%) Tableau
5 27 (7.46%) SQL Server
6 21 (5.80%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (4.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (3.87%) Essbase
9 14 (3.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 12 (3.31%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.49%) MySQL
12 8 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.66%) QlikView
14 5 (1.38%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (1.38%) SAS EBI
15 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (7.73%) Oracle Forms
2 13 (3.59%) JIRA
3 10 (2.76%) 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 (0.83%) Maven
5 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.55%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Mocha
7 1 (0.28%) Mockito
7 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 133 (36.74%) Social Skills
2 113 (31.22%) Finance
3 106 (29.28%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (11.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (11.60%) Marketing
5 41 (11.33%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (5.80%) Banking
8 18 (4.97%) Retail
9 13 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.04%) Legal
10 11 (3.04%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.49%) Law
11 9 (2.49%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.66%) Advertising
12 6 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.38%) Back Office
14 4 (1.10%) Aviation
14 4 (1.10%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 81 (22.38%) Senior
2 76 (20.99%) Architect
3 73 (20.17%) Analyst
4 60 (16.57%) Data Architect
5 36 (9.94%) Developer
6 33 (9.12%) Senior Analyst
7 31 (8.56%) Data Manager
8 28 (7.73%) Oracle Analyst
8 28 (7.73%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 24 (6.63%) Lead
10 19 (5.25%) Data Analyst
11 18 (4.97%) Governance Manager
12 17 (4.70%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.70%) Data Governance Analyst
12 17 (4.70%) Data Governance Manager
13 15 (4.14%) Business Analyst
13 15 (4.14%) Senior Manager
14 13 (3.59%) Consultant
15 12 (3.31%) Report Developer
16 10 (2.76%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.76%) Middleware
2 9 (2.49%) REST
3 8 (2.21%) SOAP
4 5 (1.38%) .NET
4 5 (1.38%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.38%) EDI
4 5 (1.38%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.38%) WinForms
5 4 (1.10%) JSON
6 3 (0.83%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.83%) PySpark
6 3 (0.83%) RAML
6 3 (0.83%) RESTful
6 3 (0.83%) Spring
6 3 (0.83%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.83%) XML
7 2 (0.55%) Grails
7 2 (0.55%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.55%) Pandas
7 2 (0.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.22%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.73%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (6.35%) Blog
4 14 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.31%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.93%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.93%) NHS
10 6 (1.66%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.10%) Housing Association
12 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.83%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.83%) Credit Risk
13 3 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.66%) Linux
1 6 (1.66%) Windows
2 2 (0.55%) VMS
3 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (35.91%) Analytics
2 95 (26.24%) Business Intelligence
3 88 (24.31%) Data Governance
4 81 (22.38%) Data Modelling
4 81 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (22.10%) Data Architecture
6 74 (20.44%) Visualisation
7 70 (19.34%) Data Strategy
8 68 (18.78%) Data Integration
9 67 (18.51%) Agile
10 62 (17.13%) DevOps
11 61 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (16.57%) Data Visualisation
13 58 (16.02%) Coaching
14 56 (15.47%) Data Engineering
15 55 (15.19%) Decision-Making
16 53 (14.64%) ETL
17 52 (14.36%) Mentoring
18 49 (13.54%) ERP
18 49 (13.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 120 (33.15%) SQL
2 46 (12.71%) Python
3 15 (4.14%) Java
4 14 (3.87%) Groovy
5 12 (3.31%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.93%) C#
7 4 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.83%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.55%) C++
9 2 (0.55%) Fortran
9 2 (0.55%) R
10 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (17.68%) Degree
2 23 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.52%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.42%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.49%) CISA
5 9 (2.49%) CISM
5 9 (2.49%) CISSP
6 7 (1.93%) CRISC
6 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.38%) CITP
7 5 (1.38%) ISACA
7 5 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.10%) SANS
9 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.55%) CFA
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (22.93%) Data Quality
2 45 (12.43%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.87%) QA
4 12 (3.31%) GDPR
5 11 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.76%) NIST
7 9 (2.49%) GRC
8 5 (1.38%) COBIT
8 5 (1.38%) 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 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (3.59%) Docker
2 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.10%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.55%) Firmware
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.76%) Terraform
2 9 (2.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.10%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.10%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 110 (30.39%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.67%) Oracle
3 25 (6.91%) Databricks
3 25 (6.91%) Google
4 17 (4.70%) SAP
5 14 (3.87%) Hyperion
6 12 (3.31%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.04%) Informatica
8 7 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.66%) Planon
10 5 (1.38%) Cisco
10 5 (1.38%) ConnectWise
10 5 (1.38%) Sage
10 5 (1.38%) VMware
10 5 (1.38%) WooCommerce
10 5 (1.38%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.38%) Zoho
11 4 (1.10%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.10%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.10%) IBM