Metadata Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 470 428
Rank change year-on-year +86 -42 +52
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 72 116 239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.34% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.04% 1.48% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 45 101 182
10th Percentile £40,903 £32,500 £48,402
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £68,102
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +2.79% -9.20%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,539 £100,000
UK median annual salary £66,367 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +7.69% -10.34%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Metadata falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,524 7,830 9,961
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 19.03% 23.15% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,140 6,225 6,825
10th Percentile £36,925 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,800 £98,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Metadata trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Metadata salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Metadata over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Metadata salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (4.17%) nginx
5 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (40.28%) Power Platform
2 26 (36.11%) Azure
3 11 (15.28%) SaaS
4 10 (13.89%) AWS
4 10 (13.89%) Collibra
5 8 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (9.72%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (6.94%) Power Automate
8 5 (6.94%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.56%) GCP
9 4 (5.56%) Snowflake
10 3 (4.17%) Alation
10 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.17%) GitHub
10 3 (4.17%) npm
11 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.39%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.33%) Power BI
2 19 (26.39%) Metadata Repository
2 19 (26.39%) SQL Server
3 14 (19.44%) Data Hub
3 14 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (15.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 11 (15.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (13.89%) SQL CLR
5 10 (13.89%) Tableau
6 8 (11.11%) Data Lake
7 7 (9.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 6 (8.33%) Ataccama
9 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (5.56%) Apache Hive
9 4 (5.56%) Big Data
9 4 (5.56%) BigQuery
9 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (5.56%) Hadoop
9 4 (5.56%) SAP BW
10 2 (2.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Babel
1 3 (4.17%) Git
1 3 (4.17%) gulp
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
1 3 (4.17%) webpack
2 2 (2.78%) ERwin
General
1 30 (41.67%) Finance
2 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (15.28%) Back Office
4 11 (15.28%) Banking
5 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Law
6 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.56%) Retail
7 3 (4.17%) Fire and Rescue
7 3 (4.17%) Legal
7 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.17%) Publishing
8 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Senior
2 15 (20.83%) Developer
3 12 (16.67%) Architect
3 12 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 12 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 11 (15.28%) Lead
5 10 (13.89%) Data Manager
5 10 (13.89%) Microsoft Developer
5 10 (13.89%) SaaS Developer
5 10 (13.89%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 10 (13.89%) Senior SQL Developer
5 10 (13.89%) SQL Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Support Officer
7 5 (6.94%) Systems Support
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Data Quality Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Quality Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) CSS
1 3 (4.17%) EDI
1 3 (4.17%) HTML
1 3 (4.17%) Node.js
1 3 (4.17%) OAuth
1 3 (4.17%) PySpark
1 3 (4.17%) React
1 3 (4.17%) REST
1 3 (4.17%) Sass
1 3 (4.17%) Svelte
1 3 (4.17%) Vue
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Jena
2 2 (2.78%) GraphQL
2 2 (2.78%) NumPy
2 2 (2.78%) Pandas
2 2 (2.78%) Regular Expression
2 2 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Private Cloud
2 9 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.33%) Smart City
4 3 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.78%) Acoustics
5 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.78%) NHS
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Blog
6 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.39%) Photography
6 1 (1.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Linux
2 5 (6.94%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.78%) Unix
3 2 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.00%) Data Management
2 30 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (41.67%) Metadata Management
3 25 (34.72%) Data Modelling
4 24 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 22 (30.56%) Analytics
6 21 (29.17%) Migration
7 19 (26.39%) Data Privacy
7 19 (26.39%) Data Science
8 17 (23.61%) Data Architecture
9 16 (22.22%) ETL
10 15 (20.83%) Agile
10 15 (20.83%) Data Engineering
11 14 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (18.06%) Data Lineage
12 13 (18.06%) Decision-Making
13 12 (16.67%) Computer Science
14 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (15.28%) Statistics
14 11 (15.28%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) SQL
2 12 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 11 (15.28%) Python
4 4 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.56%) R
5 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.78%) Bash
6 2 (2.78%) C
6 2 (2.78%) C++
6 2 (2.78%) Fortran
6 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.78%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Degree
2 6 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) CITP
5 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.78%) PhD
6 1 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.11%) GDPR
2 8 (11.11%) QA
3 5 (6.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.78%) Dublin Core
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 33 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) Oracle
3 10 (13.89%) Informatica
3 10 (13.89%) VMware
4 9 (12.50%) Databricks
5 5 (6.94%) Google
6 4 (5.56%) SAP
6 4 (5.56%) Teradata
7 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.78%) Sparx
7 2 (2.78%) Talend
8 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow