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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 114 139
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 375 494 664
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.31% 3.16% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 3.33% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 222 289 455
10th Percentile £20,813 £41,250 £38,734
25th Percentile £41,438 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £122,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £152,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £73,833 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.74% +23.06% -13.04%

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 13,968 14,831 25,724
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.17% 94.86% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,052 8,817 21,328
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,800
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.13% -7.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%

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 16 February 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 12 (3.20%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.13%) Confluence
3 6 (1.60%) SAS
4 5 (1.33%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Apache
5 2 (0.53%) Moodle
5 2 (0.53%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.53%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.27%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (9.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.47%) Oracle Smart View
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 26 (6.93%) Oracle Assets
1 26 (6.93%) Oracle Financials
1 26 (6.93%) Oracle General Ledger
1 26 (6.93%) Oracle Payables
1 26 (6.93%) Oracle Receivables
2 17 (4.53%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (3.47%) Hyperion Planning
4 12 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (2.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 9 (2.40%) Magento
5 9 (2.40%) Shopify
6 4 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.80%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.53%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.27%) Infor SunSystems
9 1 (0.27%) Primavera
9 1 (0.27%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 136 (36.27%) Azure
2 69 (18.40%) Power Platform
3 51 (13.60%) Snowflake
4 39 (10.40%) AWS
5 33 (8.80%) GCP
6 19 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (2.40%) Azure Machine Learning
7 9 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.13%) dbt
8 8 (2.13%) SaaS
9 7 (1.87%) GitHub
10 6 (1.60%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.33%) Alation
11 5 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.07%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (1.07%) Collibra
12 4 (1.07%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) BGP
2 4 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.07%) Firewall
3 3 (0.80%) Broadband
3 3 (0.80%) 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 69 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (17.33%) Power BI
3 39 (10.40%) Metadata
4 29 (7.73%) SQL Server
5 24 (6.40%) Tableau
6 21 (5.60%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (3.73%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.47%) Essbase
10 13 (3.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 9 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.40%) MySQL
12 8 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (2.13%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.60%) QlikView
14 5 (1.33%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (1.33%) Power Query
14 5 (1.33%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 26 (6.93%) Oracle Forms
2 17 (4.53%) JIRA
3 10 (2.67%) Git
4 4 (1.07%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.07%) ERwin
4 4 (1.07%) GitLab
4 4 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.07%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.80%) Maven
5 3 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.53%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.27%) JUnit
7 1 (0.27%) Mocha
7 1 (0.27%) Mockito
7 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 136 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 110 (29.33%) Finance
3 109 (29.07%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (11.47%) Public Sector
6 41 (10.93%) Marketing
7 25 (6.67%) Retail
8 24 (6.40%) Banking
8 24 (6.40%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (4.27%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.93%) Law
10 11 (2.93%) Legal
11 10 (2.67%) Advertising
12 9 (2.40%) Back Office
13 8 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.87%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.60%) Aerospace
16 4 (1.07%) Aviation
16 4 (1.07%) General Ledger
16 4 (1.07%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (22.13%) Senior
2 76 (20.27%) Architect
3 71 (18.93%) Analyst
4 60 (16.00%) Data Architect
5 32 (8.53%) Data Manager
5 32 (8.53%) Developer
6 31 (8.27%) Senior Analyst
7 26 (6.93%) Oracle Analyst
7 26 (6.93%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 23 (6.13%) Lead
9 22 (5.87%) Data Engineer
10 21 (5.60%) Governance Manager
11 20 (5.33%) Data Governance Analyst
11 20 (5.33%) Data Governance Manager
12 18 (4.80%) Senior Manager
13 15 (4.00%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.47%) Consultant
14 13 (3.47%) Support Analyst
15 12 (3.20%) Administrator
15 12 (3.20%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.47%) Middleware
1 13 (3.47%) REST
2 12 (3.20%) SOAP
3 5 (1.33%) .NET
3 5 (1.33%) .NET Framework
3 5 (1.33%) EDI
3 5 (1.33%) Entity Framework
3 5 (1.33%) WinForms
4 4 (1.07%) JSON
5 3 (0.80%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.80%) Kafka
5 3 (0.80%) OAuth
5 3 (0.80%) PySpark
5 3 (0.80%) RAML
5 3 (0.80%) RESTful
5 3 (0.80%) Spring
5 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.80%) XML
6 2 (0.53%) Pandas
6 2 (0.53%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.87%) Management Information System
2 29 (7.73%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (7.20%) Blog
4 15 (4.00%) Reference Data
5 13 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.40%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.60%) NHS
9 6 (1.60%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.33%) Social Media
11 4 (1.07%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.07%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.80%) PKI
12 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.13%) Linux
2 6 (1.60%) Windows
3 2 (0.53%) VMS
4 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (34.93%) Analytics
2 95 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
3 92 (24.53%) Data Governance
4 82 (21.87%) Data Modelling
5 81 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (20.80%) Data Architecture
7 74 (19.73%) Data Strategy
8 70 (18.67%) Visualisation
9 66 (17.60%) Data Integration
9 66 (17.60%) DevOps
10 64 (17.07%) Agile
10 64 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (15.73%) Coaching
12 58 (15.47%) Data Engineering
12 58 (15.47%) Decision-Making
12 58 (15.47%) ERP
13 57 (15.20%) Mentoring
14 56 (14.93%) Data Visualisation
15 53 (14.13%) ETL
16 50 (13.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 124 (33.07%) SQL
2 45 (12.00%) Python
3 16 (4.27%) Java
3 16 (4.27%) T-SQL
4 13 (3.47%) Groovy
5 6 (1.60%) C#
6 4 (1.07%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.07%) R
7 3 (0.80%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.53%) C++
8 2 (0.53%) VBA
9 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (18.13%) Degree
2 23 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.33%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.53%) DBS Check
5 8 (2.13%) CISA
5 8 (2.13%) CISM
5 8 (2.13%) CISSP
6 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.60%) ISACA
8 5 (1.33%) CITP
8 5 (1.33%) CRISC
8 5 (1.33%) SANS
9 4 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (21.87%) Data Quality
2 42 (11.20%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.20%) GDPR
3 12 (3.20%) QA
4 10 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.13%) GRC
5 8 (2.13%) NIST
6 7 (1.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.33%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.80%) COBIT
8 3 (0.80%) ITGC
9 2 (0.53%) ECSS
10 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.40%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.07%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (3.20%) Terraform
2 10 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (1.33%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 124 (33.07%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.80%) Oracle
3 22 (5.87%) Google
4 20 (5.33%) Databricks
5 17 (4.53%) SAP
6 13 (3.47%) Hyperion
7 11 (2.93%) Informatica
7 11 (2.93%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.40%) ConnectWise
8 9 (2.40%) WooCommerce
9 8 (2.13%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.60%) Cisco
10 6 (1.60%) Planon
11 5 (1.33%) Sage
11 5 (1.33%) VMware
11 5 (1.33%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.33%) Zoho
12 4 (1.07%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.07%) MuleSoft