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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 200 350 462
Rank change year-on-year +150 +112 -35
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 216 71 115
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.15% 0.49% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.88% 2.17% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 107 44 100
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £32,150
25th Percentile £51,825 £44,573 £49,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -7.14% +1.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £80,000 £97,635
UK median annual salary £70,932 £66,367 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.88% -5.19% +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 2,432 3,279 7,344
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.94% 22.44% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,850 2,170 6,231
10th Percentile £38,500 £37,225 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,998 £88,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,125 £122,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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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 May 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 23 (10.65%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (7.41%) Apache
3 14 (6.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (5.56%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.39%) CMS
5 3 (1.39%) SAS
5 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (24.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 39 (18.06%) Workfront
2 2 (0.93%) HFM
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.00%) AWS
1 54 (25.00%) Azure
2 53 (24.54%) iPaaS
3 37 (17.13%) GCP
4 22 (10.19%) Google Analytics
5 20 (9.26%) Amazon S3
6 18 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 11 (5.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 11 (5.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (5.09%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (4.63%) dbt
9 9 (4.17%) GitHub
9 9 (4.17%) Serverless
10 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.78%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (2.78%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 79 (36.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) 4G
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.11%) Tableau
2 18 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (7.87%) BigQuery
4 16 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 14 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.02%) Power BI
7 12 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (4.63%) Apache Iceberg
9 9 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
10 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (3.24%) Delta Lake
11 7 (3.24%) Looker
12 6 (2.78%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.31%) DynamoDB
13 5 (2.31%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.85%) MySQL
15 3 (1.39%) DB2
15 3 (1.39%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.93%) MLflow
3 1 (0.46%) Maven
3 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (36.11%) Marketing
2 50 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 42 (19.44%) Public Sector
4 39 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.19%) Law
6 21 (9.72%) Finance
7 17 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (7.41%) Retail
9 8 (3.70%) Automotive
10 5 (2.31%) Legal
10 5 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Advertising
13 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.46%) Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Games
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (24.07%) Senior
2 48 (22.22%) Architect
3 42 (19.44%) Product Owner
4 39 (18.06%) Data Architect
5 38 (17.59%) Data Engineer
6 36 (16.67%) Lead
7 21 (9.72%) Senior Data Engineer
8 19 (8.80%) Senior Architect
9 16 (7.41%) Senior Data Architect
10 11 (5.09%) Analyst
10 11 (5.09%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) SEO Executive
11 9 (4.17%) SEO Specialist
12 8 (3.70%) Data Analyst
13 7 (3.24%) Consultant
13 7 (3.24%) Senior Consultant
14 6 (2.78%) Data Consultant
14 6 (2.78%) Governance Consultant
14 6 (2.78%) Lead Architect
14 6 (2.78%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.80%) Kafka
2 12 (5.56%) PyTorch
2 12 (5.56%) TensorFlow
3 11 (5.09%) PySpark
4 6 (2.78%) React
5 5 (2.31%) HTML
6 4 (1.85%) .NET
6 4 (1.85%) CSS
6 4 (1.85%) JSON
6 4 (1.85%) XBRL
6 4 (1.85%) XML
7 3 (1.39%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.39%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.39%) SPFx
8 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.93%) Node.js
9 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.46%) SLSA
9 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (29.17%) Social Media
2 61 (28.24%) Product Ownership
3 54 (25.00%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (25.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 19 (8.80%) Algorithms
5 17 (7.87%) Cloud Native
6 14 (6.48%) Video\Live Streaming
7 12 (5.56%) Data Structures
8 10 (4.63%) Public Cloud
8 10 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.78%) Anti-Piracy
10 5 (2.31%) Blog
10 5 (2.31%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.31%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.85%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (48.15%) Agile
2 84 (38.89%) Analytics
3 83 (38.43%) Data Modelling
4 82 (37.96%) Roadmaps
5 75 (34.72%) Decision-Making
6 71 (32.87%) Data Governance
7 67 (31.02%) Digital Marketing
7 67 (31.02%) Workflow
8 66 (30.56%) Personalization
9 64 (29.63%) Customer Experience
9 64 (29.63%) Metadata Management
10 62 (28.70%) Data Architecture
11 56 (25.93%) CI/CD
12 55 (25.46%) AI
12 55 (25.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 55 (25.46%) User Stories
13 53 (24.54%) Ideation Sessions
13 53 (24.54%) Matrix Organization
13 53 (24.54%) Product Management
13 53 (24.54%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.70%) Python
2 48 (22.22%) SQL
3 17 (7.87%) Scala
4 13 (6.02%) Java
5 10 (4.63%) C#
6 9 (4.17%) Bash
7 6 (2.78%) C++
7 6 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.31%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.31%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.39%) Bicep
9 3 (1.39%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.93%) PHP
10 2 (0.93%) R
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.46%) SHACL
11 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.19%) Degree
2 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.39%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.46%) PhD
6 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (25.46%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.02%) GDPR
3 8 (3.70%) QA
4 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.39%) IFRS
4 3 (1.39%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.39%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (7.87%) Terraform
2 3 (1.39%) Control-M
3 2 (0.93%) Ansible
3 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (27.31%) Adobe
2 41 (18.98%) Google
3 24 (11.11%) Databricks
4 22 (10.19%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.63%) Screaming Frog
6 8 (3.70%) Oracle
7 6 (2.78%) SAP
8 5 (2.31%) Ahrefs
9 4 (1.85%) IBM
9 4 (1.85%) Informatica
9 4 (1.85%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.39%) BMC
10 3 (1.39%) Talend
11 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.46%) Hyperion
12 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.46%) Sonatype
12 1 (0.46%) YouTube