Hybrid/Remote Metadata Job Trends

Metadata
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 384 329
Rank change year-on-year +134 -55 +133
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 143 50 214
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.32% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.59% 1.23% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 92 28 106
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,625 £47,813 £52,681
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,367 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -8.46% +6.46%
75th Percentile £95,625 £81,563 £91,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,822 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% -13.79% +10.37%

All Database & 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 2,169 4,064 6,750
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.25% 26.08% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,563 2,427 5,768
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,718 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Metadata job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Metadata over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Metadata salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 22 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.99%) Apache
3 8 (5.59%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.80%) Confluence
5 3 (2.10%) SAS
6 2 (1.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.97%) Azure
2 49 (34.27%) AWS
3 40 (27.97%) GCP
4 25 (17.48%) Snowflake
5 19 (13.29%) Amazon S3
6 17 (11.89%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.49%) dbt
7 15 (10.49%) GitHub
8 14 (9.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (9.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (9.79%) Google Analytics
9 11 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (6.99%) Cloud Composer
11 9 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (4.90%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (4.90%) Serverless
13 6 (4.20%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (4.20%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (4.20%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.19%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.58%) Data Warehouse
1 28 (19.58%) Tableau
2 22 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 22 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (11.89%) Power BI
4 11 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (6.29%) Amazon QuickSight
5 9 (6.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (4.90%) Data Vault
6 7 (4.90%) Looker
6 7 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 6 (4.20%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (3.50%) Delta Lake
8 5 (3.50%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (2.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.80%) DataStage
9 4 (2.80%) QlikView
9 4 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Git
2 5 (3.50%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.80%) ERwin
3 4 (2.80%) JIRA
3 4 (2.80%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Maven
4 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 32 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (21.68%) Finance
5 16 (11.19%) Retail
6 15 (10.49%) Marketing
7 14 (9.79%) Law
8 10 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.59%) Automotive
10 6 (4.20%) Banking
10 6 (4.20%) Legal
10 6 (4.20%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.80%) Retail Banking
12 3 (2.10%) Electronics
12 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.40%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (29.37%) Architect
2 38 (26.57%) Data Architect
2 38 (26.57%) Senior
3 33 (23.08%) Data Engineer
4 25 (17.48%) Lead
5 15 (10.49%) Lead Data Engineer
5 15 (10.49%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (9.09%) Analyst
6 13 (9.09%) Senior Architect
7 10 (6.99%) Senior Data Architect
8 9 (6.29%) Data Manager
9 7 (4.90%) Governance Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.20%) Data Governance Analyst
10 6 (4.20%) Data Governance Manager
10 6 (4.20%) Product Analyst
11 5 (3.50%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.50%) Governance Consultant
11 5 (3.50%) Senior Consultant
11 5 (3.50%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.19%) Kafka
2 11 (7.69%) PySpark
3 8 (5.59%) PyTorch
3 8 (5.59%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.80%) JSON
5 3 (2.10%) HTML
6 2 (1.40%) CSS
6 2 (1.40%) Pandas
6 2 (1.40%) XML
7 1 (0.70%) .NET
7 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.70%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.70%) JSON-LD
7 1 (0.70%) React
7 1 (0.70%) SLSA
7 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.79%) Cloud Native
1 14 (9.79%) Reference Data
2 13 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (8.39%) Data Structures
4 11 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 10 (6.99%) Management Information System
6 9 (6.29%) Product Ownership
6 9 (6.29%) Public Cloud
6 9 (6.29%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (6.29%) Social Media
6 9 (6.29%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (4.20%) Anti-Piracy
8 4 (2.80%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.10%) Semantic Web
10 2 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.70%) Linked Data
11 1 (0.70%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (58.04%) Data Governance
2 82 (57.34%) Analytics
2 82 (57.34%) Data Modelling
3 77 (53.85%) Metadata Management
4 67 (46.85%) Data Architecture
5 51 (35.66%) DevOps
6 50 (34.97%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (32.87%) AI
7 47 (32.87%) CI/CD
8 44 (30.77%) Agile
9 43 (30.07%) ETL
10 41 (28.67%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (28.67%) Data Engineering
11 39 (27.27%) Data Management
12 36 (25.17%) Roadmaps
13 34 (23.78%) Coaching
14 33 (23.08%) Data Strategy
15 32 (22.38%) Data Analysis
16 30 (20.98%) Mentoring
16 30 (20.98%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 58 (40.56%) Python
2 53 (37.06%) SQL
3 16 (11.19%) Scala
4 9 (6.29%) Bash
5 8 (5.59%) Java
5 8 (5.59%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.20%) C++
7 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.40%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) SHACL
8 1 (0.70%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (10.49%) Degree
2 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
2 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.80%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.80%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.80%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.40%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) ISACA
6 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (40.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.70%) FATCA
4 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.19%) Terraform
2 3 (2.10%) Control-M
Vendors
1 33 (23.08%) Google
2 23 (16.08%) Databricks
3 19 (13.29%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.59%) Informatica
5 7 (4.90%) IBM
6 6 (4.20%) Adobe
7 5 (3.50%) SAP
8 3 (2.10%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.10%) BMC
8 3 (2.10%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.10%) Talend
9 2 (1.40%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle
10 1 (0.70%) Sonatype