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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 350 394
Rank change year-on-year +122 +44 +56
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 181 45 174
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.04% 0.34% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.81% 1.34% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 99 30 112
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,812 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £43,718 £49,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £55,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -22.81% +3.71%
75th Percentile £87,116 £68,114 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,875 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% -7.14% +7.69%

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 2,317 3,367 7,268
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.26% 25.70% 22.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,725 2,439 6,207
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.20%

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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 13 April 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 (13.81%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (6.63%) Apache
4 8 (4.42%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.66%) CMS
5 3 (1.66%) SAS
6 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (18.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (11.05%) Workfront
2 1 (0.55%) HFM
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.52%) Azure
2 47 (25.97%) AWS
3 37 (20.44%) GCP
4 34 (18.78%) iPaaS
5 21 (11.60%) Amazon S3
6 20 (11.05%) Snowflake
7 18 (9.94%) Google Analytics
8 14 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (7.73%) dbt
9 13 (7.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (6.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (6.63%) GitHub
11 11 (6.08%) Power Platform
12 9 (4.97%) Serverless
13 8 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (3.87%) Cloud Composer
14 7 (3.87%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (3.31%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (3.31%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 51 (28.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.71%) Tableau
2 19 (10.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (10.50%) BigQuery
3 18 (9.94%) Data Lake
4 15 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (5.52%) Power BI
7 9 (4.97%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (4.97%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (3.87%) Looker
8 7 (3.87%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.76%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.76%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.21%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.21%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.66%) DB2
11 3 (1.66%) IBM InfoSphere
11 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.08%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.55%) ERwin
2 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.55%) Maven
2 1 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (30.94%) Marketing
2 35 (19.34%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.57%) Public Sector
5 23 (12.71%) Finance
6 17 (9.39%) Law
7 14 (7.73%) Retail
8 11 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.42%) Automotive
10 5 (2.76%) Legal
10 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.66%) Banking
13 2 (1.10%) Electronics
13 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.55%) Advertising
14 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.55%) Publishing
14 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (24.31%) Senior
2 35 (19.34%) Architect
2 35 (19.34%) Data Engineer
3 29 (16.02%) Lead
4 28 (15.47%) Data Architect
5 26 (14.36%) Product Owner
6 17 (9.39%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Lead Data Engineer
7 13 (7.18%) Senior Architect
8 11 (6.08%) Analyst
9 10 (5.52%) Senior Data Architect
10 8 (4.42%) Data Analyst
10 8 (4.42%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.87%) SEO Specialist
12 6 (3.31%) Data Consultant
12 6 (3.31%) Governance Consultant
12 6 (3.31%) Lead Architect
12 6 (3.31%) Product Analyst
12 6 (3.31%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (3.31%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.39%) Kafka
2 12 (6.63%) PySpark
3 8 (4.42%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.42%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.76%) HTML
5 4 (2.21%) CSS
5 4 (2.21%) JSON
6 3 (1.66%) XML
7 2 (1.10%) .NET
7 2 (1.10%) React
7 2 (1.10%) XBRL
8 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.55%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.55%) JSON-LD
8 1 (0.55%) Pandas
8 1 (0.55%) SLSA
8 1 (0.55%) SPFx
8 1 (0.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.86%) Social Media
2 39 (21.55%) Product Ownership
3 34 (18.78%) Marketing Technology
3 34 (18.78%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (9.94%) Algorithms
5 17 (9.39%) Cloud Native
6 13 (7.18%) Data Structures
7 10 (5.52%) Public Cloud
7 10 (5.52%) Reference Data
7 10 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (4.97%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (3.31%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.21%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.66%) Blog
12 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.66%) Taxonomies
13 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.10%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (46.96%) Analytics
2 79 (43.65%) Agile
3 75 (41.44%) Data Governance
3 75 (41.44%) Data Modelling
4 72 (39.78%) Metadata Management
5 63 (34.81%) Roadmaps
6 62 (34.25%) Decision-Making
7 61 (33.70%) Data Architecture
8 52 (28.73%) AI
9 49 (27.07%) Data Pipeline
10 46 (25.41%) CI/CD
11 45 (24.86%) Customer Experience
11 45 (24.86%) DevOps
11 45 (24.86%) Workflow
12 44 (24.31%) Digital Marketing
13 42 (23.20%) Data Engineering
13 42 (23.20%) Personalization
14 39 (21.55%) ETL
15 37 (20.44%) User Stories
16 35 (19.34%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.39%) Python
2 51 (28.18%) SQL
3 14 (7.73%) Scala
4 9 (4.97%) Bash
5 8 (4.42%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.31%) C++
6 6 (3.31%) Java
7 3 (1.66%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.10%) C#
8 2 (1.10%) R
8 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.55%) SHACL
9 1 (0.55%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (9.39%) Degree
1 17 (9.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.10%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) ISACA
6 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (31.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.42%) GDPR
3 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.66%) QA
5 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.55%) IFRS
5 1 (0.55%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.29%) Terraform
2 3 (1.66%) Control-M
Vendors
1 40 (22.10%) Adobe
2 39 (21.55%) Google
3 25 (13.81%) Databricks
4 21 (11.60%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.97%) Screaming Frog
6 7 (3.87%) Informatica
7 5 (2.76%) Ahrefs
8 4 (2.21%) IBM
8 4 (2.21%) Oracle
8 4 (2.21%) SAP
9 3 (1.66%) BMC
9 3 (1.66%) Talend
10 2 (1.10%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.55%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.55%) YouTube