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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 366 354
Rank change year-on-year +129 -12 +90
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 160 38 209
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 0.28% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.33% 1.05% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 93 24 113
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,110 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -21.43% +1.89%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,950 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year +13.49% -12.28% +9.62%

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 2,183 3,615 7,149
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.77% 26.94% 23.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,590 2,436 6,118
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -10.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,625 £118,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,950 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.18% +11.22% -9.45%

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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 22 March 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 25 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.50%) Apache
3 8 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.88%) CMS
5 3 (1.88%) SAS
6 2 (1.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (10.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.25%) Workfront
2 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (29.38%) AWS
1 47 (29.38%) Azure
2 39 (24.38%) GCP
3 24 (15.00%) Snowflake
4 21 (13.13%) Amazon S3
5 17 (10.63%) iPaaS
6 15 (9.38%) GitHub
6 15 (9.38%) Google Analytics
7 14 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (8.75%) dbt
7 14 (8.75%) Power Platform
8 13 (8.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
11 9 (5.63%) Serverless
12 7 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (4.38%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (3.75%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 33 (20.63%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.88%) Tableau
2 23 (14.38%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (13.75%) BigQuery
4 21 (13.13%) Data Lake
5 19 (11.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (8.75%) Power BI
7 11 (6.88%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (5.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (5.63%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (4.38%) Looker
9 7 (4.38%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.13%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.50%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.50%) DataStage
11 4 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.50%) QlikView
11 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.88%) DB2
Development Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Git
2 4 (2.50%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.50%) ERwin
2 4 (2.50%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (21.25%) Marketing
1 34 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (19.38%) Public Sector
4 25 (15.63%) Finance
5 17 (10.63%) Retail
6 15 (9.38%) Law
7 9 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.00%) Automotive
9 6 (3.75%) Banking
9 6 (3.75%) Legal
10 5 (3.13%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.50%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.25%) Electronics
12 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.63%) Advertising
13 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (26.25%) Senior
2 38 (23.75%) Architect
3 35 (21.88%) Data Engineer
4 33 (20.63%) Data Architect
5 25 (15.63%) Lead
6 17 (10.63%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) Lead Data Engineer
7 13 (8.13%) Product Owner
7 13 (8.13%) Senior Architect
8 12 (7.50%) Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Senior Data Architect
10 9 (5.63%) Data Manager
11 7 (4.38%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.75%) Consultant
12 6 (3.75%) Data Consultant
12 6 (3.75%) Data Governance Consultant
12 6 (3.75%) Governance Consultant
12 6 (3.75%) Governance Manager
12 6 (3.75%) Product Analyst
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.63%) Kafka
2 12 (7.50%) PySpark
3 8 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 8 (5.00%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.88%) HTML
4 3 (1.88%) JSON
5 2 (1.25%) CSS
6 1 (0.63%) .NET
6 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.63%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.63%) Pandas
6 1 (0.63%) React
6 1 (0.63%) SLSA
6 1 (0.63%) XML
6 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.88%) Social Media
2 23 (14.38%) Product Ownership
3 17 (10.63%) Marketing Technology
3 17 (10.63%) Over-the-Top Content
4 14 (8.75%) Algorithms
4 14 (8.75%) Cloud Native
5 12 (7.50%) Data Structures
5 12 (7.50%) Reference Data
6 10 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 10 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.63%) Video\Live Streaming
8 8 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (3.75%) Anti-Piracy
10 4 (2.50%) Reinsurance
11 3 (1.88%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.25%) Blog
12 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
12 2 (1.25%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (51.25%) Data Governance
2 81 (50.63%) Analytics
3 79 (49.38%) Metadata Management
4 78 (48.75%) Data Modelling
5 64 (40.00%) Data Architecture
6 61 (38.13%) Agile
7 52 (32.50%) Data Pipeline
8 50 (31.25%) Roadmaps
9 49 (30.63%) DevOps
10 48 (30.00%) AI
10 48 (30.00%) CI/CD
11 44 (27.50%) Decision-Making
12 42 (26.25%) ETL
13 40 (25.00%) Data Engineering
14 37 (23.13%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (21.88%) Data Management
16 32 (20.00%) Coaching
16 32 (20.00%) Data Strategy
17 31 (19.38%) Use Case
18 30 (18.75%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.63%) Python
2 51 (31.88%) SQL
3 14 (8.75%) Scala
4 9 (5.63%) Bash
5 8 (5.00%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.75%) C++
6 6 (3.75%) Java
7 2 (1.25%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.25%) R
8 1 (0.63%) Bicep
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) Groovy
8 1 (0.63%) SHACL
8 1 (0.63%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.63%) Degree
2 16 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.50%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.25%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) ISACA
8 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.13%) GDPR
3 3 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.88%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.63%) FATCA
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (11.25%) Terraform
2 3 (1.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (23.13%) Google
2 26 (16.25%) Databricks
3 23 (14.38%) Adobe
4 19 (11.88%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.63%) Informatica
6 7 (4.38%) IBM
7 6 (3.75%) Screaming Frog
8 4 (2.50%) Ahrefs
8 4 (2.50%) SAP
9 3 (1.88%) BMC
9 3 (1.88%) Talend
10 2 (1.25%) Hotjar
10 2 (1.25%) Oracle
11 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.63%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.63%) YouTube