Metadata Management Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Metadata Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 528 559
Rank change year-on-year +85 +31 +102
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 26 60 87
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 13 52 60
10th Percentile - £40,175 £52,000
25th Percentile £43,290 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £65,344
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +22.43% -12.87%
75th Percentile £68,114 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile - £107,500 £109,144
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £64,691
% change year-on-year -16.13% +19.80% -13.75%

All Process and 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 17,749 31,137 38,086
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.99% 90.42% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,374 23,468 26,396
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,871
Median % change year-on-year - -8.54% +4.79%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Metadata Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Metadata Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Metadata Management
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Metadata Management salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Metadata Management salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Metadata Management
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 4 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Power Platform
2 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Collibra
3 6 (23.08%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 3 (11.54%) Alation
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.85%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (100.00%) Metadata
2 11 (42.31%) Metadata Repository
3 9 (34.62%) Power BI
4 8 (30.77%) Tableau
5 5 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (15.38%) Apache Hive
6 4 (15.38%) Ataccama
6 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (15.38%) Big Data
6 4 (15.38%) BigQuery
6 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
6 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (15.38%) Hadoop
6 4 (15.38%) SAP BW
7 2 (7.69%) MySQL
7 2 (7.69%) Pentaho
7 2 (7.69%) Triplestore
8 1 (3.85%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Banking
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (15.38%) Law
5 4 (15.38%) Retail
6 3 (11.54%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Architect
1 9 (34.62%) Data Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Data Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Data Quality Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Quality Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) IT Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Metadata Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Jena
1 2 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (3.85%) NumPy
2 1 (3.85%) Pandas
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) NHS
2 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Data Management
2 15 (57.69%) Data Governance
3 13 (50.00%) Analytics
3 13 (50.00%) Data Lineage
4 12 (46.15%) Data Modelling
5 10 (38.46%) Agile
5 10 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (38.46%) Data Architecture
6 8 (30.77%) Data Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Data Integration
6 8 (30.77%) Data Science
7 7 (26.92%) Data Stewardship
7 7 (26.92%) ETL
7 7 (26.92%) Migration
7 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (23.08%) Data Migration
8 6 (23.08%) Data Strategy
9 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
9 5 (19.23%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (19.23%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.69%) SPARQL
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) R
4 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (65.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (23.08%) QA
3 5 (19.23%) GDPR
4 4 (15.38%) Accessibility
5 3 (11.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (7.69%) Dublin Core
7 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) HDFS
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) Databricks
3 5 (19.23%) Informatica
4 4 (15.38%) Google
4 4 (15.38%) SAP
4 4 (15.38%) Teradata
5 2 (7.69%) Talend
6 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow