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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 113 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 369 487 645
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.37% 2.98% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 3.17% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 216 287 447
10th Percentile £20,000 £41,250 £38,734
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,425 £77,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +28.63% -15.88%
75th Percentile £77,443 £122,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £160,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £73,833 £61,799
% change year-on-year -18.74% +19.47% -11.72%

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 13,531 15,358 23,812
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.74% 94.12% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,591 9,036 19,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 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 9 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.17%) Confluence
3 7 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.63%) SAS
5 5 (1.36%) IIS
6 2 (0.54%) Apache
6 2 (0.54%) Moodle
6 2 (0.54%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 29 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.79%) Oracle Smart View
3 9 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.27%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (7.59%) Oracle Assets
1 28 (7.59%) Oracle Financials
1 28 (7.59%) Oracle General Ledger
1 28 (7.59%) Oracle Payables
1 28 (7.59%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (5.15%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (3.79%) Hyperion Planning
4 10 (2.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.63%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (1.63%) Magento
5 6 (1.63%) Shopify
6 4 (1.08%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.81%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.54%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.54%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.54%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.27%) Primavera
9 1 (0.27%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 136 (36.86%) Azure
2 68 (18.43%) Power Platform
3 51 (13.82%) Snowflake
4 39 (10.57%) AWS
5 33 (8.94%) GCP
6 19 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.61%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.71%) SaaS
9 9 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.90%) dbt
11 7 (1.90%) GitHub
12 6 (1.63%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.36%) Alation
13 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.08%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (1.08%) Collibra
14 4 (1.08%) OCI
14 4 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) BGP
2 4 (1.08%) Broadband
2 4 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.08%) Firewall
3 3 (0.81%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.27%) ADSL
4 1 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.27%) LAN
4 1 (0.27%) MPLS
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
4 1 (0.27%) OSPF
4 1 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.27%) VLAN
4 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (17.07%) Power BI
3 37 (10.03%) Metadata
4 30 (8.13%) Tableau
5 28 (7.59%) SQL Server
6 21 (5.69%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (3.79%) BigQuery
9 14 (3.79%) Essbase
9 14 (3.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 9 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.44%) MySQL
11 8 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (1.90%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.63%) QlikView
14 5 (1.36%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (1.36%) SAS EBI
15 4 (1.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (7.59%) Oracle Forms
2 14 (3.79%) JIRA
3 10 (2.71%) Git
4 4 (1.08%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.08%) ERwin
4 4 (1.08%) GitLab
4 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.81%) Maven
5 3 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Mocha
7 1 (0.27%) Mockito
7 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 135 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 116 (31.44%) Finance
3 108 (29.27%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (11.65%) Marketing
5 43 (11.65%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.50%) Banking
7 23 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (5.96%) Retail
9 13 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.98%) Law
11 11 (2.98%) Legal
12 9 (2.44%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.90%) Advertising
14 6 (1.63%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.63%) Back Office
15 4 (1.08%) Aviation
15 4 (1.08%) Retail Banking
16 3 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (23.31%) Senior
2 76 (20.60%) Architect
3 72 (19.51%) Analyst
4 61 (16.53%) Data Architect
5 35 (9.49%) Developer
6 33 (8.94%) Senior Analyst
7 32 (8.67%) Data Manager
8 28 (7.59%) Oracle Analyst
8 28 (7.59%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 23 (6.23%) Lead
10 20 (5.42%) Data Engineer
10 20 (5.42%) Governance Manager
11 19 (5.15%) Data Governance Analyst
11 19 (5.15%) Data Governance Manager
11 19 (5.15%) Senior Manager
12 17 (4.61%) Data Analyst
13 14 (3.79%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.52%) Consultant
15 12 (3.25%) Report Developer
16 10 (2.71%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.98%) Middleware
2 10 (2.71%) REST
3 9 (2.44%) SOAP
4 5 (1.36%) .NET
4 5 (1.36%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.36%) EDI
4 5 (1.36%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.36%) WinForms
5 4 (1.08%) JSON
6 3 (0.81%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.81%) Kafka
6 3 (0.81%) OAuth
6 3 (0.81%) PySpark
6 3 (0.81%) RAML
6 3 (0.81%) RESTful
6 3 (0.81%) Spring
6 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.81%) XML
7 2 (0.54%) Pandas
7 2 (0.54%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 27 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (6.78%) Blog
4 13 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.52%) Reference Data
5 10 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.71%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.90%) NHS
8 6 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.63%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.08%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.08%) Housing Association
10 4 (1.08%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.81%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.81%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.17%) Linux
2 6 (1.63%) Windows
3 2 (0.54%) VMS
4 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (36.31%) Analytics
2 95 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
3 91 (24.66%) Data Governance
4 84 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 80 (21.68%) Data Architecture
7 74 (20.05%) Data Strategy
7 74 (20.05%) Visualisation
8 68 (18.43%) Agile
8 68 (18.43%) Data Integration
9 64 (17.34%) DevOps
10 63 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 61 (16.53%) Coaching
12 60 (16.26%) Data Visualisation
13 57 (15.45%) Data Engineering
13 57 (15.45%) Decision-Making
14 55 (14.91%) Mentoring
15 53 (14.36%) ETL
16 51 (13.82%) ERP
17 48 (13.01%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 122 (33.06%) SQL
2 48 (13.01%) Python
3 16 (4.34%) Java
4 14 (3.79%) Groovy
5 13 (3.52%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.63%) C#
7 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.54%) C++
9 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.54%) R
10 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 63 (17.07%) Degree
2 23 (6.23%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.34%) DBS Check
5 10 (2.71%) CISA
5 10 (2.71%) CISM
5 10 (2.71%) CISSP
6 7 (1.90%) CRISC
6 7 (1.90%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.63%) ISACA
8 5 (1.36%) CITP
8 5 (1.36%) SANS
9 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.54%) CFA
11 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (23.31%) Data Quality
2 45 (12.20%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.25%) QA
4 11 (2.98%) GDPR
5 10 (2.71%) GRC
5 10 (2.71%) NIST
6 5 (1.36%) COBIT
6 5 (1.36%) ITGC
6 5 (1.36%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.54%) ECSS
7 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (2.98%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.08%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.54%) Firmware
4 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (3.25%) Terraform
2 10 (2.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (1.36%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 112 (30.35%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.49%) Oracle
3 25 (6.78%) Google
4 24 (6.50%) Databricks
5 17 (4.61%) SAP
6 14 (3.79%) Hyperion
7 13 (3.52%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.98%) Informatica
9 8 (2.17%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.63%) Cisco
10 6 (1.63%) ConnectWise
10 6 (1.63%) Planon
10 6 (1.63%) WooCommerce
11 5 (1.36%) Sage
11 5 (1.36%) VMware
11 5 (1.36%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.36%) Zoho
12 4 (1.08%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.08%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.08%) IBM