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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 114 138
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 376 484 665
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 3.05% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.22% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 219 287 466
10th Percentile £20,000 £41,250 £38,734
25th Percentile £42,250 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +29.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £122,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £155,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £73,417 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.27% +22.36% -14.29%

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 13,857 15,028 25,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.54% 94.62% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,830 8,918 21,255
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.69% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,400 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 8 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 11 (2.93%) 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 31 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.72%) Oracle Smart View
3 12 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.27%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (7.45%) Oracle Assets
1 28 (7.45%) Oracle Financials
1 28 (7.45%) Oracle General Ledger
1 28 (7.45%) Oracle Payables
1 28 (7.45%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (5.05%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (3.72%) Hyperion Planning
4 12 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (2.13%) Dynamics NAV
5 8 (2.13%) Magento
5 8 (2.13%) Shopify
6 4 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.80%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.53%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.53%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.27%) Primavera
9 1 (0.27%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 136 (36.17%) Azure
2 69 (18.35%) Power Platform
3 51 (13.56%) Snowflake
4 40 (10.64%) AWS
5 34 (9.04%) GCP
6 19 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (2.66%) SaaS
8 9 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (2.39%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (2.13%) dbt
9 8 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.86%) GitHub
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.33%) Alation
12 5 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (1.06%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (1.06%) Collibra
13 4 (1.06%) OCI
13 4 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.33%) BGP
2 4 (1.06%) Broadband
2 4 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.06%) Firewall
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 71 (18.88%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (17.02%) Power BI
3 39 (10.37%) Metadata
4 28 (7.45%) SQL Server
5 27 (7.18%) Tableau
6 21 (5.59%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (3.72%) BigQuery
9 14 (3.72%) Essbase
9 14 (3.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 9 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.39%) MySQL
11 8 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (2.13%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.60%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.60%) QlikView
13 5 (1.33%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (1.33%) SAS EBI
14 4 (1.06%) Looker
Development Applications
1 28 (7.45%) Oracle Forms
2 16 (4.26%) JIRA
3 10 (2.66%) Git
4 4 (1.06%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.06%) ERwin
4 4 (1.06%) GitLab
4 4 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.06%) 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
1 137 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 116 (30.85%) Finance
3 109 (28.99%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (11.70%) Marketing
6 43 (11.44%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.38%) Banking
7 24 (6.38%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (6.38%) Retail
8 15 (3.99%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.93%) Law
9 11 (2.93%) Legal
10 10 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.39%) Advertising
12 8 (2.13%) Back Office
12 8 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.60%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.06%) Aviation
14 4 (1.06%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.80%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 87 (23.14%) Senior
2 77 (20.48%) Architect
3 73 (19.41%) Analyst
4 61 (16.22%) Data Architect
5 33 (8.78%) Developer
5 33 (8.78%) Senior Analyst
6 32 (8.51%) Data Manager
7 28 (7.45%) Oracle Analyst
7 28 (7.45%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 22 (5.85%) Data Engineer
8 22 (5.85%) Lead
9 21 (5.59%) Governance Manager
10 20 (5.32%) Data Governance Analyst
10 20 (5.32%) Data Governance Manager
11 19 (5.05%) Senior Manager
12 16 (4.26%) Data Analyst
13 13 (3.46%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.46%) Consultant
14 12 (3.19%) Report Developer
15 11 (2.93%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.46%) Middleware
2 12 (3.19%) REST
3 11 (2.93%) SOAP
4 5 (1.33%) .NET
4 5 (1.33%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.33%) EDI
4 5 (1.33%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.33%) WinForms
5 4 (1.06%) JSON
6 3 (0.80%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.80%) Kafka
6 3 (0.80%) OAuth
6 3 (0.80%) PySpark
6 3 (0.80%) RAML
6 3 (0.80%) RESTful
6 3 (0.80%) Spring
6 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.80%) XML
7 2 (0.53%) Pandas
7 2 (0.53%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.84%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
3 27 (7.18%) Blog
4 15 (3.99%) Reference Data
5 13 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.66%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.39%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.86%) NHS
8 7 (1.86%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.33%) Social Media
10 4 (1.06%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.06%) Housing Association
10 4 (1.06%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.80%) PKI
11 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
1 135 (35.90%) Analytics
2 94 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 93 (24.73%) Data Governance
4 83 (22.07%) Data Modelling
4 83 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (21.01%) Data Architecture
6 74 (19.68%) Data Strategy
7 71 (18.88%) Visualisation
8 68 (18.09%) Data Integration
9 67 (17.82%) Agile
10 66 (17.55%) DevOps
11 64 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (16.22%) Coaching
13 58 (15.43%) Data Engineering
14 57 (15.16%) Data Visualisation
14 57 (15.16%) Decision-Making
14 57 (15.16%) Mentoring
15 55 (14.63%) ERP
16 53 (14.10%) ETL
17 50 (13.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 126 (33.51%) SQL
2 47 (12.50%) Python
3 16 (4.26%) Java
4 15 (3.99%) T-SQL
5 14 (3.72%) Groovy
6 6 (1.60%) C#
7 4 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.06%) R
8 3 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.53%) C++
10 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (17.82%) Degree
2 23 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.32%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.79%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.39%) CISA
5 9 (2.39%) CISM
5 9 (2.39%) CISSP
6 7 (1.86%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.60%) CRISC
7 6 (1.60%) ISACA
8 5 (1.33%) CITP
8 5 (1.33%) SANS
9 4 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.53%) CFA
11 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (22.07%) Data Quality
2 43 (11.44%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.19%) QA
4 11 (2.93%) GDPR
4 11 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.39%) GRC
5 9 (2.39%) NIST
6 5 (1.33%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.06%) COBIT
7 4 (1.06%) ITGC
8 2 (0.53%) ECSS
8 2 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (2.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.06%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.53%) Firmware
4 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (3.19%) Terraform
2 10 (2.66%) 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
1 121 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.31%) Oracle
3 25 (6.65%) Google
4 22 (5.85%) Databricks
5 17 (4.52%) SAP
6 14 (3.72%) Hyperion
7 12 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.93%) Informatica
9 10 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.13%) ConnectWise
10 8 (2.13%) WooCommerce
11 7 (1.86%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.60%) Cisco
12 6 (1.60%) Planon
13 5 (1.33%) Sage
13 5 (1.33%) VMware
13 5 (1.33%) Xamarin
13 5 (1.33%) Zoho
14 4 (1.06%) Alteryx
14 4 (1.06%) CheckPoint