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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 148 123
Rank change year-on-year +33 -25 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 357 442 585
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 2.18% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 2.45% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 199 249 402
10th Percentile £28,925 £38,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,100 £107,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,740
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.46% -4.09%

All Process and 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 13,868 18,074 20,283
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 89.24% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,727 10,941 16,424
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 23 November 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 (2.24%) Confluence
1 8 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.40%) IIS
2 5 (1.40%) SAS
3 4 (1.12%) Apache
4 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.56%) Moodle
5 2 (0.56%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.52%) Oracle Smart View
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (5.04%) Oracle Assets
1 18 (5.04%) Oracle Financials
1 18 (5.04%) Oracle General Ledger
1 18 (5.04%) Oracle Payables
1 18 (5.04%) Oracle Receivables
2 13 (3.64%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (2.52%) Hyperion Planning
4 8 (2.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.68%) Adaptiv
6 5 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.56%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.56%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.28%) iTrent
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.28%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 127 (35.57%) Azure
2 67 (18.77%) Power Platform
3 51 (14.29%) Snowflake
4 31 (8.68%) GCP
5 30 (8.40%) AWS
6 16 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (2.52%) SaaS
10 8 (2.24%) GitHub
11 7 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.96%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.68%) Collibra
13 5 (1.40%) Alation
13 5 (1.40%) iPaaS
13 5 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.12%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.56%) Broadband
1 2 (0.56%) DHCP
1 2 (0.56%) DNS
1 2 (0.56%) InfiniBand
2 1 (0.28%) ADSL
2 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (23.25%) Data Warehouse
2 61 (17.09%) Power BI
3 38 (10.64%) Tableau
4 28 (7.84%) Metadata
5 26 (7.28%) SQL Server
6 20 (5.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.32%) Data Lake
8 16 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (3.08%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (2.80%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.52%) Essbase
11 9 (2.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 9 (2.52%) Tick Data
12 8 (2.24%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (2.24%) MySQL
13 7 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (1.68%) QlikView
15 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.04%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (2.52%) JIRA
3 8 (2.24%) Git
4 5 (1.40%) ERwin
5 4 (1.12%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.56%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Mockito
7 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 138 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 125 (35.01%) Finance
3 90 (25.21%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.04%) Marketing
5 35 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (7.84%) Banking
7 25 (7.00%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (6.44%) Retail
9 18 (5.04%) Public Sector
10 16 (4.48%) Manufacturing
11 15 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (3.08%) Legal
13 9 (2.52%) Law
14 8 (2.24%) Games
14 8 (2.24%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.96%) Billing
16 6 (1.68%) Advertising
16 6 (1.68%) Aerospace
17 5 (1.40%) Local Government
18 4 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (20.17%) Analyst
2 67 (18.77%) Architect
3 52 (14.57%) Senior
4 49 (13.73%) Data Architect
5 45 (12.61%) Developer
6 25 (7.00%) Data Analyst
6 25 (7.00%) Lead
7 24 (6.72%) Senior Analyst
8 23 (6.44%) Business Analyst
9 22 (6.16%) Data Manager
10 19 (5.32%) Administrator
11 18 (5.04%) Oracle Analyst
11 18 (5.04%) Senior Oracle Analyst
12 16 (4.48%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.92%) Consultant
14 11 (3.08%) Data Business Analyst
14 11 (3.08%) Data Warehouse Developer
14 11 (3.08%) ETL Developer
14 11 (3.08%) Report Developer
14 11 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.24%) .NET
2 6 (1.68%) .NET Framework
2 6 (1.68%) Middleware
3 5 (1.40%) Entity Framework
3 5 (1.40%) WinForms
4 4 (1.12%) CSS
4 4 (1.12%) HTML
5 3 (0.84%) JSON
5 3 (0.84%) Pandas
5 3 (0.84%) React
5 3 (0.84%) RESTful
5 3 (0.84%) Spring
5 3 (0.84%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.84%) XML
6 2 (0.56%) CSS3
6 2 (0.56%) Express.js
6 2 (0.56%) Grails
6 2 (0.56%) HTML5
6 2 (0.56%) Node.js
6 2 (0.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.17%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.44%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (4.76%) Blog
4 16 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.36%) Reference Data
7 9 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.24%) Credit Risk
9 6 (1.68%) Market Risk
9 6 (1.68%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.40%) IoT
10 5 (1.40%) NHS
11 4 (1.12%) Freedom of Information
12 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.84%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.84%) PKI
13 2 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.96%) Windows
2 3 (0.84%) Linux
3 2 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (34.73%) Analytics
2 95 (26.61%) Business Intelligence
3 89 (24.93%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (21.85%) Data Modelling
5 76 (21.29%) Agile
6 73 (20.45%) Data Governance
7 68 (19.05%) Data Architecture
8 66 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (17.65%) Data Engineering
9 63 (17.65%) Data Integration
10 59 (16.53%) Decision-Making
10 59 (16.53%) Visualisation
11 52 (14.57%) ETL
12 51 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
13 47 (13.17%) AI
14 44 (12.32%) Migration
15 43 (12.04%) DevOps
16 42 (11.76%) Validation
17 39 (10.92%) Roadmaps
18 38 (10.64%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 120 (33.61%) SQL
2 62 (17.37%) Python
3 18 (5.04%) Java
4 13 (3.64%) C#
5 9 (2.52%) Groovy
5 9 (2.52%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.96%) R
7 6 (1.68%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.68%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.12%) Fortran
9 2 (0.56%) Bash
9 2 (0.56%) C++
9 2 (0.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (19.33%) Degree
2 21 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.76%) DBS Check
4 12 (3.36%) Azure Certification
5 11 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (3.08%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.80%) CFA
6 10 (2.80%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.80%) PMP
7 9 (2.52%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.52%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.40%) CISA
9 5 (1.40%) CISM
9 5 (1.40%) CISSP
9 5 (1.40%) CRISC
10 3 (0.84%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (21.85%) Data Quality
2 47 (13.17%) Accessibility
3 28 (7.84%) GDPR
4 12 (3.36%) NIST
5 11 (3.08%) QA
6 8 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.96%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.40%) COBIT
8 5 (1.40%) GRC
8 5 (1.40%) ITGC
9 4 (1.12%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.56%) ECSS
10 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 23 (6.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Firmware
2 2 (0.56%) GPFS
2 2 (0.56%) Lustre
2 2 (0.56%) NFS
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.40%) Terraform
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 96 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.24%) Databricks
3 30 (8.40%) Google
4 22 (6.16%) Oracle
5 16 (4.48%) SAP
6 12 (3.36%) Informatica
7 10 (2.80%) Murex
7 10 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.52%) Alteryx
8 9 (2.52%) Hyperion
9 6 (1.68%) FIS
9 6 (1.68%) IBM
9 6 (1.68%) Sage
10 5 (1.40%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.40%) Zoho
11 3 (0.84%) Teradata
12 2 (0.56%) Adobe
12 2 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.56%) Talend