Hybrid/Remote Metadata Management Job Trends

Metadata Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 420 394
Rank change year-on-year +100 -26 +233
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 51 33 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.20% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.21% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 35 15 42
10th Percentile £46,550 £47,813 £61,375
25th Percentile £57,075 £52,500 £69,747
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,672 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% -8.82% +30.77%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,822 £97,163
90th Percentile £118,750 £104,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £63,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -20.31% +24.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Metadata 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 13,242 15,566 19,692
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.14% 93.33% 94.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,377 9,229 15,874
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
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 £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% - -4.00%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Metadata Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Metadata Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Metadata Management
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Metadata Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Metadata Management salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Metadata 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 7 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (9.80%) Apache
3 4 (7.84%) Confluence
4 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Snowflake
2 19 (37.25%) Azure
3 15 (29.41%) Amazon S3
4 14 (27.45%) AWS
5 12 (23.53%) Power Platform
6 11 (21.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (21.57%) GitHub
7 9 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (13.73%) Amazon Kinesis
8 7 (13.73%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (7.84%) Alation
10 4 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (7.84%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (7.84%) dbt
10 4 (7.84%) GCP
10 4 (7.84%) Serverless
11 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.92%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (100.00%) Metadata
2 15 (29.41%) Data Lake
3 14 (27.45%) Tableau
4 13 (25.49%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (21.57%) Power BI
6 9 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (13.73%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (9.80%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (9.80%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (7.84%) BigQuery
9 4 (7.84%) DataStage
9 4 (7.84%) QlikView
10 3 (5.88%) DB2
10 3 (5.88%) Delta Lake
10 3 (5.88%) IBM InfoSphere
10 3 (5.88%) Parquet
11 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (3.92%) Data Vault
11 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (11.76%) ER Studio
2 5 (9.80%) Git
3 4 (7.84%) ERwin
3 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 4 (7.84%) PowerDesigner
General
1 18 (35.29%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.80%) Banking
5 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Retail
5 4 (7.84%) Retail Banking
6 3 (5.88%) Legal
6 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Law
8 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Data Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Data Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Lead
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 5 (9.80%) Governance Manager
4 5 (9.80%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Data Governance Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Data Governance Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Data Manager
5 4 (7.84%) GCP Architect
5 4 (7.84%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) PySpark
2 5 (9.80%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) .NET
3 1 (1.96%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.80%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.84%) Reference Data
4 4 (7.84%) Reinsurance
5 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (80.39%) Analytics
2 37 (72.55%) Data Governance
3 32 (62.75%) DevOps
4 30 (58.82%) Data Architecture
4 30 (58.82%) Data Modelling
5 25 (49.02%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (43.14%) Agile
6 22 (43.14%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (35.29%) Data Engineering
7 18 (35.29%) Decision-Making
7 18 (35.29%) ETL
8 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 17 (33.33%) Data Management
9 15 (29.41%) AI
10 14 (27.45%) Use Case
11 13 (25.49%) Asset Management
11 13 (25.49%) Coaching
11 13 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (25.49%) Data Integration
12 11 (21.57%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) Python
2 18 (35.29%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) T-SQL
4 7 (13.73%) Scala
5 5 (9.80%) Bash
6 1 (1.96%) Bicep
6 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) DBS Check
3 4 (7.84%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.96%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 13 (25.49%) Terraform
2 3 (5.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Databricks
2 7 (13.73%) IBM
3 5 (9.80%) Informatica
4 4 (7.84%) Google
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.88%) BMC
5 3 (5.88%) Talend
6 1 (1.96%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.96%) SAP