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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 117 126
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 363 473 618
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 2.88% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 3.07% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 214 277 420
10th Percentile £20,000 £41,250 £38,734
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £77,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% +28.63% -15.43%
75th Percentile £78,438 £122,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £152,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +16.94% -11.43%

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 13,454 15,421 22,310
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.93% 94.05% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,565 9,081 18,236
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 January 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 8 (2.20%) Confluence
1 8 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.65%) SAS
3 5 (1.38%) IIS
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.55%) Moodle
4 2 (0.55%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.86%) Oracle Smart View
3 8 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.28%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 28 (7.71%) Oracle Assets
1 28 (7.71%) Oracle Financials
1 28 (7.71%) Oracle General Ledger
1 28 (7.71%) Oracle Payables
1 28 (7.71%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (5.23%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (3.86%) Hyperion Planning
4 10 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.65%) Dynamics NAV
5 6 (1.65%) Magento
5 6 (1.65%) Shopify
6 4 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.83%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.55%) Adaptiv
8 2 (0.55%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.55%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.28%) Primavera
9 1 (0.28%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 133 (36.64%) Azure
2 67 (18.46%) Power Platform
3 51 (14.05%) Snowflake
4 35 (9.64%) AWS
5 29 (7.99%) GCP
6 19 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.75%) SaaS
9 9 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.93%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (1.93%) GitHub
12 6 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.38%) Alation
13 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (1.10%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (1.10%) dbt
14 4 (1.10%) OCI
14 4 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.38%) BGP
2 4 (1.10%) Broadband
2 4 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (1.10%) Firewall
3 3 (0.83%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.28%) ADSL
4 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.28%) Internet
4 1 (0.28%) LAN
4 1 (0.28%) MPLS
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) OSPF
4 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.28%) VLAN
4 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.83%) Data Warehouse
2 62 (17.08%) Power BI
3 35 (9.64%) Metadata
4 30 (8.26%) Tableau
5 28 (7.71%) SQL Server
6 21 (5.79%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (3.86%) Essbase
9 14 (3.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 12 (3.31%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.48%) MySQL
12 8 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.65%) QlikView
14 5 (1.38%) Metadata Repository
14 5 (1.38%) SAS EBI
15 4 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 4 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (7.71%) Oracle Forms
2 14 (3.86%) JIRA
3 10 (2.75%) Git
4 4 (1.10%) ER Studio
4 4 (1.10%) ERwin
4 4 (1.10%) GitLab
4 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.83%) Maven
5 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.55%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.28%) JUnit
7 1 (0.28%) Mocha
7 1 (0.28%) Mockito
7 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 131 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 114 (31.40%) Finance
3 106 (29.20%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.85%) Marketing
5 42 (11.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (11.29%) Public Sector
7 23 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (6.06%) Banking
9 20 (5.51%) Retail
10 13 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.31%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.03%) Legal
13 9 (2.48%) Law
13 9 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.93%) Advertising
15 6 (1.65%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.65%) Back Office
16 4 (1.10%) Aviation
16 4 (1.10%) Retail Banking
17 3 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 82 (22.59%) Senior
2 75 (20.66%) Architect
3 74 (20.39%) Analyst
4 60 (16.53%) Data Architect
5 35 (9.64%) Developer
6 33 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
7 30 (8.26%) Data Manager
8 28 (7.71%) Oracle Analyst
8 28 (7.71%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 23 (6.34%) Lead
10 18 (4.96%) Data Analyst
10 18 (4.96%) Governance Manager
11 17 (4.68%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.68%) Data Governance Analyst
11 17 (4.68%) Data Governance Manager
11 17 (4.68%) Senior Manager
12 15 (4.13%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.58%) Consultant
14 12 (3.31%) Report Developer
15 10 (2.75%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.03%) Middleware
2 10 (2.75%) REST
3 9 (2.48%) SOAP
4 5 (1.38%) .NET
4 5 (1.38%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.38%) EDI
4 5 (1.38%) Entity Framework
4 5 (1.38%) WinForms
5 4 (1.10%) JSON
6 3 (0.83%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (0.83%) OAuth
6 3 (0.83%) PySpark
6 3 (0.83%) RAML
6 3 (0.83%) RESTful
6 3 (0.83%) Spring
6 3 (0.83%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.83%) XML
7 2 (0.55%) Grails
7 2 (0.55%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.55%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.92%) Management Information System
2 27 (7.44%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (6.34%) Blog
4 13 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.31%) Reference Data
6 10 (2.75%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 7 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.93%) NHS
9 6 (1.65%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.38%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.38%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.10%) Housing Association
11 4 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.83%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.83%) PKI
13 2 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.65%) Linux
1 6 (1.65%) Windows
2 2 (0.55%) VMS
3 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (35.81%) Analytics
2 95 (26.17%) Business Intelligence
3 87 (23.97%) Data Governance
4 81 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (22.04%) Data Modelling
6 79 (21.76%) Data Architecture
7 73 (20.11%) Visualisation
8 70 (19.28%) Data Strategy
9 67 (18.46%) Data Integration
10 66 (18.18%) Agile
11 63 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (17.08%) DevOps
13 59 (16.25%) Data Visualisation
14 58 (15.98%) Coaching
15 56 (15.43%) Data Engineering
16 55 (15.15%) Decision-Making
17 52 (14.33%) Mentoring
18 51 (14.05%) ERP
18 51 (14.05%) ETL
19 49 (13.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 118 (32.51%) SQL
2 44 (12.12%) Python
3 14 (3.86%) Groovy
3 14 (3.86%) Java
4 13 (3.58%) T-SQL
5 6 (1.65%) C#
6 4 (1.10%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.55%) C++
8 2 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.55%) R
9 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.28%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 63 (17.36%) Degree
2 23 (6.34%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.68%) DBS Check
5 10 (2.75%) CISA
5 10 (2.75%) CISM
5 10 (2.75%) CISSP
6 7 (1.93%) CRISC
6 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.65%) ISACA
8 5 (1.38%) CITP
8 5 (1.38%) SANS
9 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (22.87%) Data Quality
2 45 (12.40%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.31%) QA
4 11 (3.03%) GDPR
5 10 (2.75%) GRC
5 10 (2.75%) NIST
6 5 (1.38%) COBIT
6 5 (1.38%) ITGC
6 5 (1.38%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.55%) ECSS
7 2 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (3.03%) Docker
2 5 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.10%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.55%) Firmware
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.75%) Terraform
2 8 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 5 (1.38%) RSA Archer
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 110 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.64%) Oracle
3 24 (6.61%) Databricks
3 24 (6.61%) Google
4 17 (4.68%) SAP
5 14 (3.86%) Hyperion
6 13 (3.58%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.03%) Informatica
8 8 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.65%) Cisco
9 6 (1.65%) ConnectWise
9 6 (1.65%) Planon
9 6 (1.65%) WooCommerce
10 5 (1.38%) Sage
10 5 (1.38%) VMware
10 5 (1.38%) Xamarin
10 5 (1.38%) Zoho
11 4 (1.10%) Alteryx
11 4 (1.10%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.10%) IBM