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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 390 288
Rank change year-on-year +133 -102 +156
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 114 49 213
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.30% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.37% 1.18% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 83 25 94
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,390 £45,600
25th Percentile £60,875 £52,500 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,300 £72,292
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% -4.14% +7.10%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,829 £97,163
UK median annual salary £69,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.20% -13.79% +7.41%

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 2,121 4,140 5,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.87% 25.23% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,583 2,457 4,420
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £38,477
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.00%

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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 16 January 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 11 (9.65%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.14%) Apache
3 5 (4.39%) CMS
4 4 (3.51%) Confluence
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.75%) Drupal
5 2 (1.75%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.75%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (41.23%) Azure
2 37 (32.46%) AWS
3 27 (23.68%) GCP
4 22 (19.30%) Snowflake
5 19 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 18 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (14.91%) Amazon S3
8 14 (12.28%) GitHub
9 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (9.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (6.14%) dbt
12 7 (6.14%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (6.14%) Google Analytics
12 7 (6.14%) Serverless
13 6 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (4.39%) Adobe Analytics
14 5 (4.39%) Alation
14 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (22.81%) Tableau
3 21 (18.42%) Data Lake
4 19 (16.67%) Power BI
5 12 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (9.65%) BigQuery
7 9 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (7.89%) Data Vault
8 7 (6.14%) Amazon QuickSight
8 7 (6.14%) Apache Iceberg
9 6 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (5.26%) Looker
10 5 (4.39%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.39%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.51%) DataStage
11 4 (3.51%) QlikView
11 4 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.63%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Git
2 8 (7.02%) JIRA
3 6 (5.26%) ER Studio
4 4 (3.51%) ERwin
4 4 (3.51%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.75%) Grunt
5 2 (1.75%) gulp
5 2 (1.75%) webpack
General
1 37 (32.46%) Finance
2 27 (23.68%) Public Sector
3 22 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (19.30%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Banking
5 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.02%) Marketing
6 7 (6.14%) Retail
7 6 (5.26%) Law
7 6 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.39%) Legal
9 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.51%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.63%) Electronics
10 3 (2.63%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.75%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.88%) Games
12 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (29.82%) Architect
2 33 (28.95%) Data Architect
3 27 (23.68%) Data Engineer
3 27 (23.68%) Senior
4 17 (14.91%) Lead
5 13 (11.40%) Analyst
6 12 (10.53%) Lead Data Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Senior Architect
7 9 (7.89%) Senior Data Architect
8 8 (7.02%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Data Manager
10 6 (5.26%) Data Analyst
10 6 (5.26%) Governance Manager
11 5 (4.39%) Consultant
11 5 (4.39%) Data Consultant
11 5 (4.39%) Data Governance Consultant
11 5 (4.39%) Data Governance Manager
11 5 (4.39%) Governance Consultant
11 5 (4.39%) Product Analyst
11 5 (4.39%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.65%) PySpark
2 8 (7.02%) Kafka
3 5 (4.39%) HTML
4 4 (3.51%) CSS
5 3 (2.63%) JSON
6 2 (1.75%) CSS3
6 2 (1.75%) HTML5
6 2 (1.75%) Node.js
6 2 (1.75%) Pandas
6 2 (1.75%) Redux
6 2 (1.75%) RESTful
6 2 (1.75%) Sass
6 2 (1.75%) XML
7 1 (0.88%) .NET
7 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.88%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) Reference Data
2 14 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (8.77%) Management Information System
5 8 (7.02%) Public Cloud
6 7 (6.14%) Algorithms
6 7 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (5.26%) Data Structures
7 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.51%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.63%) Blog
9 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.63%) Semantic Web
9 3 (2.63%) Social Media
10 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.75%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.88%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.40%) Data Governance
2 64 (56.14%) Metadata Management
3 63 (55.26%) Data Modelling
4 60 (52.63%) Analytics
5 56 (49.12%) Data Architecture
6 47 (41.23%) DevOps
7 39 (34.21%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (32.46%) Agile
8 37 (32.46%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (32.46%) CI/CD
9 35 (30.70%) Data Management
10 34 (29.82%) ETL
11 29 (25.44%) Data Engineering
12 28 (24.56%) AI
13 27 (23.68%) Data Strategy
14 26 (22.81%) Roadmaps
15 25 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (21.05%) Decision-Making
17 23 (20.18%) Master Data Management
18 22 (19.30%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 42 (36.84%) SQL
2 39 (34.21%) Python
3 11 (9.65%) Scala
4 8 (7.02%) T-SQL
5 7 (6.14%) Bash
6 4 (3.51%) Java
6 4 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.75%) R
8 1 (0.88%) Bicep
8 1 (0.88%) C#
8 1 (0.88%) SHACL
8 1 (0.88%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (14.04%) SC Cleared
1 16 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.40%) Degree
3 8 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.51%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.51%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.75%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) ISACA
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (45.61%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.51%) GDPR
4 3 (2.63%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.88%) FATCA
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (11.40%) Terraform
2 3 (2.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Google
2 20 (17.54%) Databricks
3 18 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.02%) Informatica
5 7 (6.14%) IBM
6 5 (4.39%) Adobe
7 4 (3.51%) SAP
8 3 (2.63%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.63%) BMC
8 3 (2.63%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.63%) Talend
9 2 (1.75%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle
10 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow