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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 107 102
Rank change year-on-year -52 -5 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 354 523 900
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.66% 3.17% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 3.40% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 157 254 455
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,199
25th Percentile £36,457 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £69,840 £60,319
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% +15.79% -3.49%
75th Percentile £67,250 £108,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £132,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.73% +7.50% -4.00%

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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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 July 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 15 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.56%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.56%) WordPress
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 54 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.13%) Windchill
5 3 (0.85%) Blender
5 3 (0.85%) Maya
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 34 (9.60%) Adobe Campaign
2 27 (7.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (3.67%) Dynamics GP
4 6 (1.69%) NetSuite
5 4 (1.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (1.13%) Magento
5 4 (1.13%) Raiser’s Edge
5 4 (1.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.28%) HFM
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (18.64%) Power Platform
2 52 (14.69%) Azure
3 45 (12.71%) SaaS
4 38 (10.73%) AWS
5 23 (6.50%) Power Automate
6 18 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.80%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (4.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 14 (3.95%) GCP
10 13 (3.67%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.54%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.69%) GitHub
14 5 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.41%) dbt
15 4 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.13%) Amazon S3
15 4 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.13%) Snowflake
16 3 (0.85%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.73%) Broadband
2 17 (4.80%) Firewall
3 14 (3.95%) VLAN
4 13 (3.67%) LAN
4 13 (3.67%) WAN
5 10 (2.82%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (2.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (2.54%) Unified Communications
6 9 (2.54%) WebEx
7 7 (1.98%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.41%) BGP
8 5 (1.41%) Network Security
9 4 (1.13%) DHCP
9 4 (1.13%) DNS
9 4 (1.13%) MPLS
9 4 (1.13%) OSPF
9 4 (1.13%) VoIP
10 3 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (15.54%) Power BI
2 24 (6.78%) Metadata
3 21 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.37%) Tableau
5 10 (2.82%) Data Lake
5 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (1.41%) GIS
8 5 (1.41%) MySQL
9 4 (1.13%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.85%) Power Query
10 3 (0.85%) Spatial Data
11 2 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.56%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (2.82%) JIRA
2 8 (2.26%) GitLab
3 7 (1.98%) Git
4 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.28%) ERwin
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 165 (46.61%) Social Skills
2 87 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (22.03%) Finance
4 76 (21.47%) Marketing
5 54 (15.25%) Legal
6 33 (9.32%) Public Sector
7 32 (9.04%) Retail
7 32 (9.04%) Telecoms
8 30 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (8.47%) Law
9 20 (5.65%) Banking
9 20 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.98%) Back Office
10 7 (1.98%) Billing
11 6 (1.69%) Welsh Language
12 4 (1.13%) Advertising
12 4 (1.13%) Environmental Health
12 4 (1.13%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 109 (30.79%) Senior
2 59 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 46 (12.99%) Analyst
4 39 (11.02%) Administrator
5 37 (10.45%) Campaign Manager
5 37 (10.45%) Testing Manager
6 34 (9.60%) Architect
7 26 (7.34%) Product Manager
8 25 (7.06%) Data Architect
9 23 (6.50%) Data Analyst
10 22 (6.21%) Data Manager
10 22 (6.21%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (5.08%) Data Governance Analyst
11 18 (5.08%) Data Governance Manager
11 18 (5.08%) Governance Manager
12 17 (4.80%) Senior Data Analyst
13 16 (4.52%) Applications Support
13 16 (4.52%) IT Support
13 16 (4.52%) Senior Campaign Manager
14 15 (4.24%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.95%) .NET
2 13 (3.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (2.82%) JSON
4 9 (2.54%) .NET Framework
4 9 (2.54%) ASP.NET MVC
4 9 (2.54%) Classic ASP
4 9 (2.54%) Entity Framework
4 9 (2.54%) Google Maps API
4 9 (2.54%) Node.js
4 9 (2.54%) XML
4 9 (2.54%) XMPP
5 8 (2.26%) Middleware
6 5 (1.41%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.41%) Kafka
6 5 (1.41%) OAuth
6 5 (1.41%) RESTful
7 4 (1.13%) OpenID
7 4 (1.13%) PySpark
7 4 (1.13%) REST
7 4 (1.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.84%) Product Ownership
2 48 (13.56%) Marketing Technology
3 41 (11.58%) Social Media
3 41 (11.58%) Virtual Team
4 34 (9.60%) Over-the-Top Content
5 33 (9.32%) Management Information System
6 21 (5.93%) Blog
7 20 (5.65%) Data Structures
8 11 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 9 (2.54%) FlexPod
9 9 (2.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.98%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.98%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.69%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.69%) Replication
12 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.41%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.80%) Linux
2 10 (2.82%) Windows
2 10 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (36.44%) Decision-Making
2 114 (32.20%) Analytics
3 103 (29.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 85 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (24.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 76 (21.47%) CRM
6 74 (20.90%) Roadmaps
7 71 (20.06%) DevOps
8 69 (19.49%) Business Intelligence
8 69 (19.49%) Data Governance
9 59 (16.67%) Agile
9 59 (16.67%) AI
10 58 (16.38%) Software Engineering
11 54 (15.25%) Test Automation
12 52 (14.69%) Mentoring
13 50 (14.12%) Performance Management
14 48 (13.56%) Data Modelling
14 48 (13.56%) Project Delivery
15 47 (13.28%) Digital Marketing
16 45 (12.71%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 103 (29.10%) Python
2 66 (18.64%) SQL
3 54 (15.25%) C#
4 53 (14.97%) JavaScript
5 42 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 38 (10.73%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.82%) Java
8 6 (1.69%) Scala
9 5 (1.41%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.85%) R
10 3 (0.85%) VBA
11 2 (0.56%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (10.17%) Degree
2 16 (4.52%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.11%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.54%) CIPD
5 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.41%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.41%) PMP
9 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.85%) CCNA
10 3 (0.85%) CCNP
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.56%) CITP
11 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ACCA
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (22.88%) Data Quality
2 54 (15.25%) QA
3 43 (12.15%) GDPR
4 18 (5.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.13%) Def Stans
7 4 (1.13%) ISO 9000
7 4 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.56%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (3.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.82%) Docker
3 7 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (1.69%) vSphere
5 4 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (3.95%) Ansible
2 13 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.39%) Terraform
4 9 (2.54%) Cisco CUCM
4 9 (2.54%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.45%) Adobe
3 18 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 14 (3.95%) Cisco
5 13 (3.67%) Google
6 12 (3.39%) Fortinet
6 12 (3.39%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.11%) Oracle
8 10 (2.82%) Databricks
8 10 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.82%) VMware
9 9 (2.54%) SAP
9 9 (2.54%) Splunk
10 8 (2.26%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.69%) IFS
11 6 (1.69%) NetApp
12 4 (1.13%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.13%) Epicor
12 4 (1.13%) ESRI
12 4 (1.13%) F5