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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 359 466
Rank change year-on-year +134 +107 -110
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 227 74 106
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.09% 0.46% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.80% 2.26% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 114 48 92
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,903 £29,350
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,125 £48,505
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,716 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% +1.96% -7.21%
75th Percentile £84,063 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £103,500 £80,000 £106,375
UK median annual salary £70,782 £66,367 £68,937
% change year-on-year +6.65% -3.73% +6.06%

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 2,912 3,271 7,263
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.98% 20.37% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,303 2,199 6,048
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%

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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 3 July 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 (7.49%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (5.29%) Apache Spark
4 11 (4.85%) Apache
5 6 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.32%) SAS
7 2 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (23.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (17.18%) Workfront
2 2 (0.88%) HFM
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.63%) Azure
2 53 (23.35%) AWS
2 53 (23.35%) iPaaS
3 34 (14.98%) GCP
4 25 (11.01%) Power Platform
5 22 (9.69%) Google Analytics
6 16 (7.05%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (6.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (6.17%) Snowflake
9 10 (4.41%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.96%) dbt
10 9 (3.96%) Serverless
11 7 (3.08%) Google Ads
12 6 (2.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.64%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (2.64%) Dagster
12 6 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (36.12%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) 4G
2 1 (0.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.81%) Tableau
2 18 (7.93%) Power BI
3 16 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (6.61%) Data Lake
5 13 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (5.73%) BigQuery
5 13 (5.73%) Delta Lake
6 11 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (3.52%) Data Vault
7 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.08%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.64%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (2.64%) MySQL
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.76%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.32%) Looker
11 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.64%) Git
2 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.88%) MLflow
3 1 (0.44%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.44%) ERwin
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 79 (34.80%) Marketing
2 56 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 46 (20.26%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (18.06%) Public Sector
5 23 (10.13%) Law
6 21 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (8.81%) Finance
8 15 (6.61%) Retail
9 8 (3.52%) Automotive
10 6 (2.64%) Legal
11 5 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Advertising
13 2 (0.88%) Banking
13 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Billing
14 1 (0.44%) Games
14 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
14 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (31.28%) Architect
2 62 (27.31%) Data Architect
3 52 (22.91%) Senior
4 42 (18.50%) Product Owner
5 34 (14.98%) Lead
6 28 (12.33%) Senior Architect
7 27 (11.89%) Data Engineer
8 25 (11.01%) Senior Data Architect
9 18 (7.93%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) SEO Specialist
11 10 (4.41%) Analyst
12 9 (3.96%) SEO Executive
13 6 (2.64%) Data Analyst
13 6 (2.64%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.64%) Technology Owner
14 5 (2.20%) AWS Data Engineer
14 5 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.20%) Developer
14 5 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
15 4 (1.76%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.49%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.05%) TensorFlow
3 15 (6.61%) Kafka
4 12 (5.29%) PySpark
5 11 (4.85%) React
6 7 (3.08%) .NET
6 7 (3.08%) CSS
6 7 (3.08%) HTML
7 5 (2.20%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (2.20%) JSON
7 5 (2.20%) SPFx
8 4 (1.76%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.76%) XBRL
8 4 (1.76%) XML
9 2 (0.88%) Node.js
10 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.44%) FFmpeg
10 1 (0.44%) SLSA
10 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (29.52%) Product Ownership
2 62 (27.31%) Social Media
3 54 (23.79%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (23.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 21 (9.25%) Algorithms
4 21 (9.25%) Cloud Native
5 18 (7.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 11 (4.85%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.41%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.64%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.64%) Taxonomies
10 5 (2.20%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.20%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.76%) Blog
12 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.93%) Agile
1 102 (44.93%) Roadmaps
2 92 (40.53%) Data Modelling
3 84 (37.00%) Analytics
4 80 (35.24%) Decision-Making
5 77 (33.92%) AI
6 73 (32.16%) Data Architecture
7 71 (31.28%) Data Governance
7 71 (31.28%) Workflow
8 70 (30.84%) Personalization
9 69 (30.40%) Digital Marketing
10 64 (28.19%) Customer Experience
11 63 (27.75%) CI/CD
12 58 (25.55%) Metadata Management
13 57 (25.11%) Data Strategy
14 55 (24.23%) Matrix Organization
14 55 (24.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 55 (24.23%) User Stories
15 53 (23.35%) Product Backlog
15 53 (23.35%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 57 (25.11%) Python
2 43 (18.94%) SQL
3 17 (7.49%) Scala
4 14 (6.17%) Java
5 11 (4.85%) C#
6 9 (3.96%) Bicep
7 8 (3.52%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.08%) C++
8 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.76%) Bash
11 2 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.25%) Degree
2 15 (6.61%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (5.73%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.96%) CIPD
6 8 (3.52%) Azure Certification
7 7 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.08%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PhD
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (28.19%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.61%) GDPR
3 11 (4.85%) QA
4 3 (1.32%) IFRS
4 3 (1.32%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.32%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (8.37%) Terraform
2 3 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 56 (24.67%) Adobe
2 40 (17.62%) Google
3 33 (14.54%) Microsoft
4 28 (12.33%) Databricks
5 11 (4.85%) Oracle
6 9 (3.96%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.64%) SAP
8 5 (2.20%) Informatica
9 4 (1.76%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) Foundry
11 1 (0.44%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.44%) IBM
11 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.44%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.44%) Workday
11 1 (0.44%) YouTube