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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 387 344
Rank change year-on-year +143 -43 +117
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 139 50 214
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.85% 0.32% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.45% 1.23% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 90 28 106
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,122 £47,813 £52,681
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,367 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -8.46% +7.41%
75th Percentile £96,875 £81,563 £91,563
90th Percentile £101,000 £90,822 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% -13.79% +10.37%

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 2,156 4,061 6,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.23% 26.13% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,411 5,796
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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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 17 February 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 21 (15.11%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.19%) Apache
3 7 (5.04%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.88%) Confluence
5 3 (2.16%) SAS
6 2 (1.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.72%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.97%) Azure
2 48 (34.53%) AWS
3 38 (27.34%) GCP
4 25 (17.99%) Snowflake
5 19 (13.67%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.23%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.79%) GitHub
8 14 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (10.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (10.07%) dbt
9 12 (8.63%) Google Analytics
10 11 (7.91%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.47%) Cloud Composer
11 9 (6.47%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (5.04%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (5.04%) Serverless
13 6 (4.32%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.60%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.14%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (19.42%) Tableau
3 22 (15.83%) Data Lake
4 20 (14.39%) BigQuery
5 17 (12.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (12.23%) Power BI
6 11 (7.91%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (6.47%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (6.47%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (5.04%) Data Vault
8 7 (5.04%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.32%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (4.32%) Looker
10 5 (3.60%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.60%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.88%) DataStage
11 4 (2.88%) QlikView
11 4 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Git
2 5 (3.60%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.88%) ERwin
3 4 (2.88%) JIRA
3 4 (2.88%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) Maven
4 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.02%) Public Sector
3 31 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (22.30%) Finance
4 15 (10.79%) Retail
5 14 (10.07%) Marketing
6 12 (8.63%) Law
7 9 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (5.04%) Automotive
9 6 (4.32%) Banking
9 6 (4.32%) Legal
9 6 (4.32%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.88%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.16%) Electronics
11 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.44%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (29.50%) Architect
2 37 (26.62%) Data Architect
2 37 (26.62%) Senior
3 32 (23.02%) Data Engineer
4 25 (17.99%) Lead
5 15 (10.79%) Lead Data Engineer
6 14 (10.07%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (9.35%) Senior Architect
8 12 (8.63%) Analyst
9 10 (7.19%) Senior Data Architect
10 9 (6.47%) Data Manager
11 7 (5.04%) Governance Manager
12 6 (4.32%) Data Governance Analyst
12 6 (4.32%) Data Governance Manager
13 5 (3.60%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.60%) Data Consultant
13 5 (3.60%) Data Governance Consultant
13 5 (3.60%) Governance Consultant
13 5 (3.60%) Product Analyst
13 5 (3.60%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.79%) Kafka
2 11 (7.91%) PySpark
3 8 (5.76%) PyTorch
3 8 (5.76%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.88%) JSON
5 3 (2.16%) HTML
6 2 (1.44%) CSS
6 2 (1.44%) Pandas
6 2 (1.44%) XML
7 1 (0.72%) .NET
7 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.72%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.72%) JSON-LD
7 1 (0.72%) React
7 1 (0.72%) SLSA
7 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.07%) Cloud Native
1 14 (10.07%) Reference Data
2 13 (9.35%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (7.91%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.19%) Algorithms
4 10 (7.19%) Management Information System
5 9 (6.47%) Product Ownership
5 9 (6.47%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.47%) Video\Live Streaming
6 8 (5.76%) Social Media
7 5 (3.60%) Anti-Piracy
8 4 (2.88%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.16%) Semantic Web
10 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Linked Data
11 1 (0.72%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.99%) Data Governance
2 80 (57.55%) Data Modelling
3 79 (56.83%) Analytics
4 76 (54.68%) Metadata Management
5 66 (47.48%) Data Architecture
6 51 (36.69%) DevOps
7 48 (34.53%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (33.81%) CI/CD
9 45 (32.37%) AI
10 43 (30.94%) Agile
11 42 (30.22%) ETL
12 41 (29.50%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (28.78%) Data Engineering
14 39 (28.06%) Data Management
15 35 (25.18%) Roadmaps
16 33 (23.74%) Coaching
17 32 (23.02%) Data Strategy
18 30 (21.58%) Data Analysis
18 30 (21.58%) Mentoring
18 30 (21.58%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.01%) Python
2 51 (36.69%) SQL
3 15 (10.79%) Scala
4 9 (6.47%) Bash
5 8 (5.76%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.04%) Java
7 5 (3.60%) C++
8 2 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.44%) R
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) C#
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
9 1 (0.72%) SHACL
9 1 (0.72%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (10.07%) Degree
1 14 (10.07%) SC Cleared
1 14 (10.07%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.88%) DBS Check
3 4 (2.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.44%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.72%) ISACA
5 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (41.73%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.88%) GDPR
3 3 (2.16%) QA
4 1 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.72%) FATCA
4 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.51%) Terraform
2 3 (2.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 31 (22.30%) Google
2 23 (16.55%) Databricks
3 19 (13.67%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.76%) Informatica
5 7 (5.04%) IBM
6 5 (3.60%) Adobe
6 5 (3.60%) SAP
7 3 (2.16%) Ahrefs
7 3 (2.16%) BMC
7 3 (2.16%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (2.16%) Talend
8 2 (1.44%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.72%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.72%) Oracle
9 1 (0.72%) Sonatype