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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 82 130
Rank change year-on-year -40 +48 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 382 527 758
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.25% 4.04% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 4.25% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 226 298 474
10th Percentile £27,188 £41,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £122,500 £81,213
90th Percentile £95,000 £152,500 £97,212
UK median annual salary £59,450 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.73% +25.00% -9.09%

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 14,370 12,407 28,124
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.57% 95.09% 91.94%
Number of salaries quoted 9,532 8,764 23,078
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,763
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 24 March 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 14 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.57%) Confluence
4 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.05%) IIS
4 4 (1.05%) SAS
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) Moodle
5 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.52%) WordPress
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 41 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.62%) Oracle Smart View
4 9 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.26%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 20 (5.24%) Oracle Assets
1 20 (5.24%) Oracle Financials
1 20 (5.24%) Oracle General Ledger
1 20 (5.24%) Oracle Payables
1 20 (5.24%) Oracle Receivables
2 14 (3.66%) Adobe Campaign
3 13 (3.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (2.88%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (2.62%) Hyperion Planning
6 9 (2.36%) Dynamics NAV
6 9 (2.36%) Magento
6 9 (2.36%) Shopify
7 6 (1.57%) NetSuite
8 4 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.52%) Markit EDM
10 1 (0.26%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 124 (32.46%) Azure
2 69 (18.06%) Power Platform
3 50 (13.09%) Snowflake
4 45 (11.78%) AWS
5 31 (8.12%) GCP
6 16 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.62%) Amazon S3
8 10 (2.62%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.36%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (2.09%) dbt
10 8 (2.09%) GitHub
11 7 (1.83%) SaaS
12 5 (1.31%) Alation
12 5 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.05%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (1.05%) Collibra
14 3 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.19%) Broadband
2 9 (2.36%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (2.36%) Firewall
3 6 (1.57%) BGP
4 5 (1.31%) LAN
4 5 (1.31%) VLAN
4 5 (1.31%) WAN
5 4 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.05%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.05%) WebEx
6 3 (0.79%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.26%) ADSL
7 1 (0.26%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) MPLS
7 1 (0.26%) Network Security
7 1 (0.26%) OSPF
7 1 (0.26%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (17.54%) Power BI
2 64 (16.75%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (8.90%) Metadata
4 30 (7.85%) SQL Server
5 19 (4.97%) Tableau
6 17 (4.45%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.66%) BigQuery
8 13 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (3.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (2.62%) Essbase
9 10 (2.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 9 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.36%) MySQL
11 8 (2.09%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (2.09%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.57%) Power Query
12 6 (1.57%) QlikView
13 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (5.24%) Oracle Forms
2 16 (4.19%) JIRA
3 11 (2.88%) Git
4 8 (2.09%) GitLab
5 4 (1.05%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.05%) ERwin
5 4 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.79%) Maven
6 3 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.26%) JUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Mocha
8 1 (0.26%) Mockito
8 1 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 130 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 92 (24.08%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (23.30%) Finance
4 59 (15.45%) Marketing
5 44 (11.52%) Public Sector
6 43 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (8.64%) Retail
8 27 (7.07%) Banking
9 22 (5.76%) Telecoms
10 20 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.88%) Back Office
12 9 (2.36%) Advertising
13 8 (2.09%) Law
14 6 (1.57%) Legal
14 6 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.05%) Aviation
15 4 (1.05%) General Ledger
15 4 (1.05%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 86 (22.51%) Senior
2 71 (18.59%) Architect
3 57 (14.92%) Analyst
3 57 (14.92%) Data Architect
4 28 (7.33%) Developer
5 27 (7.07%) Data Manager
5 27 (7.07%) Senior Analyst
6 25 (6.54%) Senior Manager
7 23 (6.02%) Administrator
8 22 (5.76%) Lead
9 21 (5.50%) Governance Manager
10 20 (5.24%) Data Governance Analyst
10 20 (5.24%) Data Governance Manager
10 20 (5.24%) Oracle Analyst
10 20 (5.24%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 16 (4.19%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.66%) Campaign Manager
12 14 (3.66%) IT Support
13 13 (3.40%) Applications Support
13 13 (3.40%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.40%) Middleware
2 12 (3.14%) REST
2 12 (3.14%) SOAP
3 6 (1.57%) OAuth
4 5 (1.31%) EDI
4 5 (1.31%) Node.js
5 4 (1.05%) .NET
5 4 (1.05%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.05%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.05%) Entity Framework
5 4 (1.05%) OpenID
5 4 (1.05%) WinForms
5 4 (1.05%) XMPP
6 3 (0.79%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.79%) Kafka
6 3 (0.79%) PySpark
6 3 (0.79%) RAML
6 3 (0.79%) RESTful
6 3 (0.79%) Spring
6 3 (0.79%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.78%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.81%) Blog
2 26 (6.81%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (4.71%) Social Media
5 15 (3.93%) Marketing Technology
6 14 (3.66%) Over-the-Top Content
7 13 (3.40%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.40%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.14%) Reference Data
9 10 (2.62%) Algorithms
9 10 (2.62%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.57%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.31%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.31%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.05%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.05%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.14%) Linux
2 9 (2.36%) Windows
3 4 (1.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (36.39%) Analytics
2 90 (23.56%) Business Intelligence
3 85 (22.25%) Data Governance
4 82 (21.47%) Data Modelling
5 76 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (19.63%) Data Strategy
7 73 (19.11%) Decision-Making
8 71 (18.59%) Data Architecture
9 67 (17.54%) Visualisation
10 63 (16.49%) Data Integration
11 62 (16.23%) DevOps
12 60 (15.71%) ERP
13 56 (14.66%) CRM
14 55 (14.40%) Mentoring
15 54 (14.14%) Agile
16 53 (13.87%) Data Engineering
16 53 (13.87%) Data Visualisation
17 52 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (13.61%) Roadmaps
18 51 (13.35%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 108 (28.27%) SQL
2 48 (12.57%) Python
3 15 (3.93%) T-SQL
4 14 (3.66%) Java
5 10 (2.62%) Groovy
6 5 (1.31%) R
7 4 (1.05%) C#
7 4 (1.05%) Scala
8 3 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.79%) VBA
9 2 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.26%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (15.97%) Degree
2 23 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.45%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.66%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.57%) ISACA
6 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.31%) CISA
7 5 (1.31%) CISM
7 5 (1.31%) CISSP
7 5 (1.31%) CITP
7 5 (1.31%) SANS
8 4 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CRISC
10 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (20.16%) Data Quality
2 38 (9.95%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.97%) GDPR
4 14 (3.66%) QA
5 7 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.31%) GRC
7 5 (1.31%) NIST
7 5 (1.31%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.52%) ECSS
9 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.26%) PMO
9 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.40%) Docker
2 10 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.31%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.31%) vSphere
4 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (4.19%) Terraform
2 14 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.31%) Ansible
3 5 (1.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (1.31%) RSA Archer
4 4 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (1.05%) Grafana
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 127 (33.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.33%) Oracle
3 20 (5.24%) Google
4 19 (4.97%) SAP
5 18 (4.71%) Databricks
6 17 (4.45%) Adobe
7 16 (4.19%) Salesforce
8 12 (3.14%) Informatica
9 11 (2.88%) Cisco
9 11 (2.88%) ServiceNow
10 10 (2.62%) Hyperion
10 10 (2.62%) VMware
11 9 (2.36%) ConnectWise
11 9 (2.36%) WooCommerce
12 7 (1.83%) Planon
13 6 (1.57%) HubSpot
14 5 (1.31%) CheckPoint
15 4 (1.05%) IBM
15 4 (1.05%) NetApp
15 4 (1.05%) Sage