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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 344 483
Rank change year-on-year +133 +139 -103
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 225 74 114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.14% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.60% 2.26% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 114 48 99
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £31,800
25th Percentile £54,130 £46,125 £48,170
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £85,750 £70,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £98,731
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,684 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.99% -6.17% +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 2,617 3,272 7,499
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.29% 21.63% 21.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,013 2,190 6,283
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £105,000
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 12 June 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 20 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (6.22%) Apache
3 11 (4.89%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.33%) SAS
6 2 (0.89%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (23.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (17.33%) Workfront
2 2 (0.89%) HFM
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (25.78%) Azure
2 56 (24.89%) AWS
3 53 (23.56%) iPaaS
4 35 (15.56%) GCP
5 22 (9.78%) Google Analytics
5 22 (9.78%) Power Platform
6 18 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (5.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (5.33%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (4.00%) dbt
9 9 (4.00%) Serverless
10 6 (2.67%) Amazon SageMaker
10 6 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.67%) Cloud Composer
10 6 (2.67%) Dagster
10 6 (2.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 82 (36.44%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) 4G
2 1 (0.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.67%) Tableau
2 16 (7.11%) Power BI
3 15 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 14 (6.22%) Data Lake
4 14 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.89%) Delta Lake
5 11 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (4.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (3.56%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.56%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.11%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (2.67%) MySQL
11 5 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.22%) Looker
11 5 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.22%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.78%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Git
2 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.89%) MLflow
3 1 (0.44%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.44%) ERwin
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 77 (34.22%) Marketing
2 54 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 45 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.22%) Law
5 21 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (8.00%) Finance
7 15 (6.67%) Retail
8 8 (3.56%) Automotive
9 6 (2.67%) Legal
10 5 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Advertising
12 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Billing
13 1 (0.44%) Games
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (26.67%) Architect
2 52 (23.11%) Senior
3 51 (22.67%) Data Architect
4 42 (18.67%) Product Owner
5 36 (16.00%) Lead
6 35 (15.56%) Data Engineer
7 21 (9.33%) Senior Architect
7 21 (9.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (8.00%) Senior Data Architect
9 10 (4.44%) Analyst
10 9 (4.00%) SEO Executive
10 9 (4.00%) SEO Specialist
11 8 (3.56%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (3.11%) Consultant
12 7 (3.11%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.11%) Senior Consultant
13 6 (2.67%) Data Consultant
13 6 (2.67%) Data Governance Consultant
13 6 (2.67%) Governance Consultant
13 6 (2.67%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.56%) Kafka
1 17 (7.56%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.11%) TensorFlow
3 13 (5.78%) PySpark
4 8 (3.56%) React
5 5 (2.22%) CSS
5 5 (2.22%) HTML
6 4 (1.78%) .NET
6 4 (1.78%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.78%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (1.78%) JSON
6 4 (1.78%) SPFx
6 4 (1.78%) XBRL
6 4 (1.78%) XML
7 2 (0.89%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.89%) Node.js
8 1 (0.44%) FFmpeg
8 1 (0.44%) Ray
8 1 (0.44%) SLSA
8 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (27.56%) Product Ownership
1 62 (27.56%) Social Media
2 54 (24.00%) Marketing Technology
2 54 (24.00%) Over-the-Top Content
3 19 (8.44%) Algorithms
4 18 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 12 (5.33%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.44%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.67%) Anti-Piracy
9 5 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.22%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.22%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.78%) Blog
10 4 (1.78%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (47.56%) Agile
2 92 (40.89%) Roadmaps
3 89 (39.56%) Data Modelling
4 86 (38.22%) Analytics
5 76 (33.78%) Decision-Making
6 73 (32.44%) Data Governance
7 70 (31.11%) Personalization
8 68 (30.22%) Data Architecture
8 68 (30.22%) Workflow
9 67 (29.78%) Digital Marketing
10 64 (28.44%) AI
10 64 (28.44%) Customer Experience
11 63 (28.00%) Metadata Management
12 58 (25.78%) CI/CD
13 55 (24.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 55 (24.44%) User Stories
14 53 (23.56%) Matrix Organization
14 53 (23.56%) Product Backlog
14 53 (23.56%) Product Management
14 53 (23.56%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 63 (28.00%) Python
2 43 (19.11%) SQL
3 19 (8.44%) Scala
4 14 (6.22%) Java
5 10 (4.44%) C#
6 7 (3.11%) Bash
6 7 (3.11%) C++
6 7 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.22%) Bicep
9 4 (1.78%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.89%) PHP
10 2 (0.89%) R
10 2 (0.89%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
11 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.78%) Degree
2 19 (8.44%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.56%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.33%) CIPD
5 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.33%) SnowPro
6 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.44%) PhD
7 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (27.11%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.33%) GDPR
3 8 (3.56%) QA
4 3 (1.33%) IFRS
4 3 (1.33%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.33%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (8.44%) Terraform
2 3 (1.33%) Control-M
3 2 (0.89%) Ansible
3 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (25.78%) Adobe
2 39 (17.33%) Google
3 26 (11.56%) Databricks
3 26 (11.56%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.89%) Oracle
5 9 (4.00%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (2.67%) SAP
7 5 (2.22%) Informatica
7 5 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.78%) Ahrefs
8 4 (1.78%) IBM
9 3 (1.33%) BMC
9 3 (1.33%) Talend
10 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.44%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.44%) Workday
11 1 (0.44%) YouTube