Data Manager Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Manager salary for remote or hybrid work is £69,018 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 355 328
Rank change year-on-year +44 -27 +190
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Manager 106 241 405
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.71% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.74% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 65 212 228
10th Percentile £43,290 £41,550 £47,149
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,018 £67,500 £73,449
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -8.10% +16.12%
75th Percentile £82,958 £90,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Data Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Manager
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Manager.

Data Manager salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Manager
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Manager over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Data Manager salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Data Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Data Manager in the job title.

1 59 (55.66%) Analytics
2 48 (45.28%) Finance
3 34 (32.08%) Banking
3 34 (32.08%) Data Governance
3 34 (32.08%) Data Quality
4 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
5 31 (29.25%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (24.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 26 (24.53%) Decision-Making
6 26 (24.53%) Power Platform
6 26 (24.53%) Power BI
7 24 (22.64%) Data Management
8 23 (21.70%) SQL
8 23 (21.70%) Data Engineering
9 22 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (20.75%) Tableau
9 22 (20.75%) ETL
9 22 (20.75%) Visualisation
10 21 (19.81%) Microsoft
10 21 (19.81%) Data Science
11 20 (18.87%) Data Strategy
12 19 (17.92%) Data Visualisation
12 19 (17.92%) Python
12 19 (17.92%) Agile
13 18 (16.98%) Project Management
13 18 (16.98%) AWS
13 18 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (16.04%) CRM
15 16 (15.09%) Azure
15 16 (15.09%) Data Analytics

Data Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (9.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.94%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.53%) Power Platform
2 18 (16.98%) AWS
3 16 (15.09%) Azure
4 12 (11.32%) GCP
5 11 (10.38%) Snowflake
6 6 (5.66%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (5.66%) Collibra
6 6 (5.66%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.77%) Fivetran
7 4 (3.77%) Google Analytics
7 4 (3.77%) Zapier
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.83%) GitHub
8 3 (2.83%) Serverless
9 2 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) ADSL
1 2 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.53%) Power BI
2 22 (20.75%) Tableau
3 10 (9.43%) Metadata
4 9 (8.49%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (7.55%) Metadata Repository
6 7 (6.60%) Hadoop
7 6 (5.66%) Ataccama
7 6 (5.66%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.77%) Big Data
9 4 (3.77%) SAP HANA
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.83%) Data Hub
10 3 (2.83%) Parquet
10 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.83%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.89%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Git
2 4 (3.77%) JIRA
3 3 (2.83%) GitLab
4 2 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 48 (45.28%) Finance
2 34 (32.08%) Banking
3 33 (31.13%) Social Skills
4 22 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (11.32%) Legal
6 7 (6.60%) Retail
7 6 (5.66%) Marketing
7 6 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.72%) Tech for Good
9 3 (2.83%) Advertising
9 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.94%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.60%) PySpark
2 6 (5.66%) Middleware
3 3 (2.83%) XGBoost
4 2 (1.89%) Google JAX
4 2 (1.89%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.89%) JAX
4 2 (1.89%) Kafka
4 2 (1.89%) NumPy
4 2 (1.89%) Pandas
4 2 (1.89%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.89%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.72%) Freedom of Information
3 5 (4.72%) Freedom of Information Act
4 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.77%) Hackathon
4 4 (3.77%) Social Media
5 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.83%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
1 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.66%) Analytics
2 34 (32.08%) Data Governance
3 31 (29.25%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (24.53%) Decision-Making
5 24 (22.64%) Data Management
6 23 (21.70%) Data Engineering
7 22 (20.75%) ETL
7 22 (20.75%) Visualisation
8 21 (19.81%) Data Science
9 20 (18.87%) Data Strategy
10 19 (17.92%) Agile
10 19 (17.92%) Data Visualisation
11 18 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (16.98%) Project Management
12 17 (16.04%) CRM
13 16 (15.09%) Data Analytics
14 15 (14.15%) Mentoring
14 15 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (13.21%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.70%) SQL
2 19 (17.92%) Python
3 4 (3.77%) R
3 4 (3.77%) T-SQL
4 3 (2.83%) Java
5 2 (1.89%) Julia
5 2 (1.89%) Scala
5 2 (1.89%) VBA
6 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (8.49%) Degree
2 7 (6.60%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.77%) ISEB
3 4 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.77%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.77%) PMP
3 4 (3.77%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (32.08%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.26%) GDPR
3 9 (8.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.77%) QA
6 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.94%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.89%) Terraform
2 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.26%) Google
3 12 (11.32%) Databricks
4 11 (10.38%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.66%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.72%) Informatica
6 5 (4.72%) Teradata
7 4 (3.77%) SAP
7 4 (3.77%) Xero
8 2 (1.89%) Apple
8 2 (1.89%) Talend
9 1 (0.94%) Oracle