Metadata Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Metadata
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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 384 468
Rank change year-on-year +22 +84 -13
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 40 190 256
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 2.48% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26 113 206
10th Percentile £42,270 £36,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,703 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £68,703
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +5.53% +5.70%
75th Percentile £68,591 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £79,375 £96,539 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -

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 3,458 7,658 10,974
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.47% 23.56% 23.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,428 6,143 7,537
10th Percentile £38,175 £37,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £119,125 £93,750 £101,100
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +4.17%

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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 2 April 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 7 (17.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 17 (42.50%) Azure
3 12 (30.00%) AWS
4 7 (17.50%) Snowflake
5 6 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (15.00%) Collibra
6 5 (12.50%) GCP
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.00%) Alation
8 2 (5.00%) dbt
8 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (5.00%) GitHub
9 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) 5G
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) Multicast
2 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) Power BI
2 17 (42.50%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (35.00%) Metadata Repository
4 10 (25.00%) Tableau
5 8 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (15.00%) Ataccama
7 5 (12.50%) Airbyte
7 5 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (12.50%) Apache Hive
7 5 (12.50%) Big Data
7 5 (12.50%) BigQuery
7 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 5 (12.50%) Hadoop
7 5 (12.50%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (7.50%) Data Mining
8 3 (7.50%) Data Vault
9 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 6 (15.00%) Retail
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Data Manager
2 9 (22.50%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Data Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Data Migration Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Data Quality Manager
5 4 (10.00%) Migration Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Quality Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Data Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
8 1 (2.50%) Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) NumPy
1 5 (12.50%) Pandas
1 5 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
2 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Jena
3 1 (2.50%) PySpark
3 1 (2.50%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 5 (12.50%) NHS
2 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.00%) IoT
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (2.50%) Acoustics
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Photography
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Metadata Management
2 25 (62.50%) Data Management
3 24 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (47.50%) Analytics
4 19 (47.50%) Data Governance
4 19 (47.50%) ETL
5 17 (42.50%) Data Engineering
6 16 (40.00%) Data Architecture
7 15 (37.50%) Data Lineage
8 14 (35.00%) Data Modelling
9 11 (27.50%) Data Science
9 11 (27.50%) Migration
10 10 (25.00%) Data Strategy
11 9 (22.50%) Agile
11 9 (22.50%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (22.50%) Data Integration
12 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
12 8 (20.00%) Data Migration
12 8 (20.00%) Data Stewardship
12 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.00%) C
4 2 (5.00%) C++
4 2 (5.00%) R
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) Fortran
5 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (65.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (22.50%) QA
3 4 (10.00%) GDPR
4 3 (7.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.50%) Dublin Core
5 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Databricks
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle
4 5 (12.50%) Google
4 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 5 (12.50%) Teradata
5 2 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) Informatica
6 1 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (2.50%) Talend