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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 129 120
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 340 441 553
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.21% 2.51% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.71% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 186 242 386
10th Percentile £20,000 £39,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,837 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £68,474
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% -1.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £94,688 £96,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -5.80%

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 13,685 16,295 18,758
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.13% 92.57% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,775 9,910 15,077
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,549 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 17 December 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 (2.35%) Confluence
1 8 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.47%) IIS
2 5 (1.47%) SAS
3 3 (0.88%) Apache
3 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.59%) Moodle
4 2 (0.59%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.82%) Oracle Smart View
3 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 26 (7.65%) Oracle Assets
1 26 (7.65%) Oracle Financials
1 26 (7.65%) Oracle General Ledger
1 26 (7.65%) Oracle Payables
1 26 (7.65%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (5.29%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (3.82%) Hyperion Planning
4 11 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (1.18%) Magento
5 4 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (1.18%) Shopify
6 3 (0.88%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.59%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.59%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 123 (36.18%) Azure
2 64 (18.82%) Power Platform
3 52 (15.29%) Snowflake
4 23 (6.76%) GCP
5 22 (6.47%) AWS
6 16 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.24%) SaaS
8 10 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.76%) GitHub
12 5 (1.47%) Alation
12 5 (1.47%) iPaaS
13 4 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.18%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (1.18%) Collibra
13 4 (1.18%) OCI
13 4 (1.18%) PowerApps
14 3 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) Broadband
2 3 (0.88%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.29%) ADSL
3 1 (0.29%) BGP
3 1 (0.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 59 (17.35%) Power BI
3 34 (10.00%) Tableau
4 29 (8.53%) SQL Server
5 26 (7.65%) Metadata
6 20 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (5.59%) Data Lake
8 16 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (3.82%) Essbase
9 13 (3.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 11 (3.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (3.24%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.65%) MySQL
12 8 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
13 7 (2.06%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (1.76%) QlikView
14 6 (1.76%) Tick Data
15 5 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.47%) Looker
15 5 (1.47%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 26 (7.65%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (3.53%) JIRA
3 9 (2.65%) Git
4 4 (1.18%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.18%) ERwin
4 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.18%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.88%) Maven
5 3 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.59%) GitLab
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) Mockito
7 1 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 123 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 108 (31.76%) Finance
3 94 (27.65%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.94%) Marketing
5 39 (11.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (5.88%) Retail
8 17 (5.00%) Banking
8 17 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.82%) Manufacturing
11 11 (3.24%) Legal
12 9 (2.65%) Law
13 8 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.76%) Advertising
14 6 (1.76%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.47%) Back Office
15 5 (1.47%) Games
16 4 (1.18%) Billing
16 4 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (22.06%) Analyst
2 67 (19.71%) Architect
3 60 (17.65%) Senior
4 50 (14.71%) Data Architect
5 39 (11.47%) Developer
6 34 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
7 26 (7.65%) Oracle Analyst
7 26 (7.65%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 22 (6.47%) Data Analyst
9 21 (6.18%) Data Manager
10 20 (5.88%) Lead
11 17 (5.00%) Business Analyst
12 15 (4.41%) Data Engineer
13 14 (4.12%) Administrator
14 12 (3.53%) Report Developer
15 11 (3.24%) Consultant
16 10 (2.94%) Enterprise Architect
17 9 (2.65%) Data Business Analyst
17 9 (2.65%) ERP Analyst
17 9 (2.65%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.94%) Middleware
2 8 (2.35%) REST
3 7 (2.06%) SOAP
4 5 (1.47%) .NET
4 5 (1.47%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.47%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.47%) WinForms
5 3 (0.88%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.88%) JSON
5 3 (0.88%) RAML
5 3 (0.88%) Spring
5 3 (0.88%) Spring Boot
5 3 (0.88%) XML
6 2 (0.59%) CSS
6 2 (0.59%) Grails
6 2 (0.59%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.59%) HTML
6 2 (0.59%) OAuth
6 2 (0.59%) Pandas
7 1 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.06%) Management Information System
2 28 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (6.47%) Blog
4 15 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.82%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.53%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.06%) NHS
9 6 (1.76%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.47%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.18%) Housing Association
12 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
12 3 (0.88%) PKI
13 2 (0.59%) Semantic Web
13 2 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.76%) Windows
2 4 (1.18%) Linux
3 2 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (35.29%) Analytics
2 99 (29.12%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (23.24%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (20.88%) Data Modelling
5 69 (20.29%) Data Architecture
5 69 (20.29%) Visualisation
6 67 (19.71%) Data Governance
7 64 (18.82%) Data Integration
8 63 (18.53%) Agile
9 61 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (17.35%) Data Visualisation
11 58 (17.06%) Data Engineering
12 57 (16.76%) Decision-Making
13 50 (14.71%) ETL
13 50 (14.71%) Migration
14 47 (13.82%) AI
14 47 (13.82%) DevOps
15 46 (13.53%) E-Commerce
16 45 (13.24%) Roadmaps
17 44 (12.94%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 123 (36.18%) SQL
2 50 (14.71%) Python
3 14 (4.12%) Java
4 13 (3.82%) Groovy
5 12 (3.53%) T-SQL
6 10 (2.94%) C#
7 6 (1.76%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.76%) R
8 4 (1.18%) Fortran
9 2 (0.59%) C++
9 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (20.00%) Degree
2 20 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (4.41%) DBS Check
4 11 (3.24%) Security Cleared
5 9 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.35%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.47%) CISA
8 5 (1.47%) CISM
8 5 (1.47%) CISSP
8 5 (1.47%) CRISC
9 4 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.59%) CFA
11 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.59%) PMP
12 1 (0.29%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (22.06%) Data Quality
2 45 (13.24%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.29%) GDPR
4 12 (3.53%) QA
5 9 (2.65%) NIST
6 8 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.47%) COBIT
7 5 (1.47%) GRC
7 5 (1.47%) ITGC
8 4 (1.18%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.18%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.59%) ECSS
9 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 15 (4.41%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Firmware
2 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.47%) Terraform
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 102 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.71%) Oracle
3 29 (8.53%) Databricks
4 23 (6.76%) Google
5 14 (4.12%) SAP
6 13 (3.82%) Hyperion
7 12 (3.53%) Informatica
8 10 (2.94%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.06%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.76%) Sage
11 5 (1.47%) IBM
11 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.47%) Xamarin
11 5 (1.47%) Zoho
12 4 (1.18%) ConnectWise
12 4 (1.18%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.18%) WooCommerce
13 3 (0.88%) Adobe
13 3 (0.88%) Teradata
14 2 (0.59%) VMware