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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 378 330
Rank change year-on-year +115 -48 +120
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 122 53 224
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 0.33% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.76% 1.30% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 85 29 108
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,813 £53,394
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,367 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -8.46% +7.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £90,822 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% -13.79% +8.21%

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 2,119 4,062 6,812
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.29% 25.58% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,530 2,430 5,793
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,322 £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 £93,250 £73,000
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 7 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 17 (13.93%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (8.20%) Apache
3 4 (3.28%) Confluence
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.64%) CMS
6 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (37.70%) Azure
2 43 (35.25%) AWS
3 30 (24.59%) GCP
4 22 (18.03%) Snowflake
5 19 (15.57%) Amazon S3
6 17 (13.93%) Power Platform
7 14 (11.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (11.48%) GitHub
8 11 (9.02%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (9.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (8.20%) dbt
10 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.38%) Google Analytics
10 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (5.74%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (5.74%) Serverless
12 6 (4.92%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (4.10%) Alation
13 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.10%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.13%) Tableau
2 25 (20.49%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (15.57%) Data Lake
4 17 (13.93%) Power BI
5 14 (11.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (9.84%) BigQuery
7 11 (9.02%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (7.38%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (7.38%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (5.74%) Data Vault
9 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.92%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (4.92%) Looker
11 5 (4.10%) Delta Lake
11 5 (4.10%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (3.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.28%) DataStage
12 4 (3.28%) QlikView
12 4 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (9.02%) Git
2 5 (4.10%) ER Studio
3 4 (3.28%) ERwin
3 4 (3.28%) JIRA
3 4 (3.28%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.82%) Maven
4 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (25.41%) Finance
2 28 (22.95%) Public Sector
3 25 (20.49%) Social Skills
4 24 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.84%) Retail
6 11 (9.02%) Marketing
7 8 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.74%) Law
9 6 (4.92%) Banking
9 6 (4.92%) Legal
9 6 (4.92%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.28%) Automotive
10 4 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.28%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.46%) Electronics
11 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.64%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (29.51%) Architect
2 35 (28.69%) Data Architect
3 30 (24.59%) Senior
4 27 (22.13%) Data Engineer
5 21 (17.21%) Lead
6 14 (11.48%) Lead Data Engineer
7 12 (9.84%) Analyst
8 10 (8.20%) Senior Architect
8 10 (8.20%) Senior Data Architect
8 10 (8.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (7.38%) Data Manager
10 7 (5.74%) Governance Manager
11 6 (4.92%) Data Governance Analyst
11 6 (4.92%) Data Governance Manager
12 5 (4.10%) Data Analyst
12 5 (4.10%) Data Consultant
12 5 (4.10%) Data Governance Consultant
12 5 (4.10%) Governance Consultant
12 5 (4.10%) Product Analyst
12 5 (4.10%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.02%) Kafka
1 11 (9.02%) PySpark
2 4 (3.28%) JSON
2 4 (3.28%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.28%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.46%) HTML
4 2 (1.64%) CSS
4 2 (1.64%) Pandas
4 2 (1.64%) XML
5 1 (0.82%) .NET
5 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.82%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.82%) JSON-LD
5 1 (0.82%) React
5 1 (0.82%) SLSA
5 1 (0.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.48%) Cloud Native
1 14 (11.48%) Reference Data
2 12 (9.84%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.38%) Public Cloud
4 9 (7.38%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.74%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.74%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.10%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (3.28%) Reinsurance
8 4 (3.28%) Social Media
9 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) Semantic Web
10 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.82%) Anti-Piracy
11 1 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.82%) Linked Data
11 1 (0.82%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (63.11%) Data Governance
2 71 (58.20%) Data Modelling
3 69 (56.56%) Metadata Management
4 68 (55.74%) Analytics
5 61 (50.00%) Data Architecture
6 51 (41.80%) DevOps
7 43 (35.25%) Data Pipeline
8 42 (34.43%) CI/CD
9 41 (33.61%) Agile
10 39 (31.97%) Data Management
11 38 (31.15%) AI
11 38 (31.15%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (31.15%) ETL
12 35 (28.69%) Data Engineering
13 31 (25.41%) Data Strategy
13 31 (25.41%) Roadmaps
14 27 (22.13%) Data Analysis
14 27 (22.13%) Decision-Making
15 26 (21.31%) Coaching
15 26 (21.31%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.34%) Python
2 46 (37.70%) SQL
3 11 (9.02%) Scala
4 9 (7.38%) Bash
5 8 (6.56%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.46%) Java
7 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.64%) R
8 1 (0.82%) Bicep
8 1 (0.82%) C#
8 1 (0.82%) C++
8 1 (0.82%) Groovy
8 1 (0.82%) SHACL
8 1 (0.82%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (11.48%) SC Cleared
1 14 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.66%) Degree
3 9 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.28%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.64%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) ISACA
6 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (43.44%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.28%) GDPR
3 3 (2.46%) QA
4 1 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.82%) FATCA
4 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (12.30%) Terraform
2 3 (2.46%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (22.13%) Google
2 23 (18.85%) Databricks
3 19 (15.57%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.56%) Informatica
5 7 (5.74%) IBM
6 5 (4.10%) Adobe
7 4 (3.28%) SAP
8 3 (2.46%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.46%) BMC
8 3 (2.46%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.46%) Talend
9 2 (1.64%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.82%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.82%) Oracle
10 1 (0.82%) Sonatype