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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 379 336
Rank change year-on-year +136 -43 +123
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 141 50 204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.33% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.62% 1.25% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 91 28 105
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £42,471
25th Percentile £61,063 £47,813 £52,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,367 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -8.46% +7.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £81,563 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,822 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% -13.79% +11.54%

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 2,129 4,010 6,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.00% 26.15% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 2,420 5,776
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £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 £93,375 £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 22 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 22 (15.60%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.09%) Apache
3 8 (5.67%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.84%) Confluence
5 3 (2.13%) CMS
5 3 (2.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.75%) Azure
2 48 (34.04%) AWS
3 40 (28.37%) GCP
4 25 (17.73%) Snowflake
5 18 (12.77%) Amazon S3
6 17 (12.06%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.64%) dbt
7 15 (10.64%) GitHub
8 14 (9.93%) Google Analytics
9 13 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (7.80%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (7.09%) Cloud Composer
12 9 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (4.26%) Adobe Analytics
15 6 (4.26%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (4.26%) Dagster
15 6 (4.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.86%) Data Warehouse
1 28 (19.86%) Tableau
2 22 (15.60%) BigQuery
3 21 (14.89%) Data Lake
4 17 (12.06%) Power BI
5 16 (11.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.80%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (6.38%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (6.38%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (4.96%) Data Vault
8 7 (4.96%) Looker
9 6 (4.26%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (4.26%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.55%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.55%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.84%) DataStage
11 4 (2.84%) QlikView
11 4 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (7.80%) Git
2 4 (2.84%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.84%) ERwin
2 4 (2.84%) JIRA
2 4 (2.84%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) Maven
3 1 (0.71%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.99%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (21.99%) Public Sector
3 30 (21.28%) Finance
4 17 (12.06%) Retail
5 14 (9.93%) Marketing
6 12 (8.51%) Law
7 10 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.67%) Automotive
9 6 (4.26%) Banking
9 6 (4.26%) Legal
10 5 (3.55%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.84%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.42%) Electronics
12 2 (1.42%) Music Industry
12 2 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.71%) Advertising
13 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (28.37%) Architect
2 38 (26.95%) Senior
3 36 (25.53%) Data Architect
4 33 (23.40%) Data Engineer
5 25 (17.73%) Lead
6 15 (10.64%) Lead Data Engineer
6 15 (10.64%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (9.22%) Analyst
7 13 (9.22%) Senior Architect
8 10 (7.09%) Senior Data Architect
9 9 (6.38%) Data Manager
10 7 (4.96%) Governance Manager
11 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Data Governance Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Data Governance Manager
11 6 (4.26%) Product Analyst
12 5 (3.55%) Data Consultant
12 5 (3.55%) Governance Consultant
12 5 (3.55%) Senior Consultant
12 5 (3.55%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.35%) Kafka
2 11 (7.80%) PySpark
3 8 (5.67%) PyTorch
3 8 (5.67%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.13%) HTML
4 3 (2.13%) JSON
5 2 (1.42%) CSS
6 1 (0.71%) .NET
6 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.71%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.71%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.71%) Pandas
6 1 (0.71%) React
6 1 (0.71%) SLSA
6 1 (0.71%) XML
6 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.22%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (9.22%) Reference Data
3 12 (8.51%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.51%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.09%) Social Media
5 9 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 9 (6.38%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.38%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (4.26%) Anti-Piracy
7 4 (2.84%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.42%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.71%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.71%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (57.45%) Analytics
1 81 (57.45%) Data Governance
2 80 (56.74%) Data Modelling
3 76 (53.90%) Metadata Management
4 65 (46.10%) Data Architecture
5 51 (36.17%) DevOps
6 50 (35.46%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (33.33%) AI
7 47 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 44 (31.21%) Agile
9 42 (29.79%) ETL
10 41 (29.08%) Data Engineering
11 39 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (26.95%) Data Management
13 35 (24.82%) Roadmaps
14 34 (24.11%) Coaching
15 32 (22.70%) Data Strategy
16 31 (21.99%) Data Analysis
17 30 (21.28%) Mentoring
17 30 (21.28%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.43%) Python
2 52 (36.88%) SQL
3 16 (11.35%) Scala
4 9 (6.38%) Bash
5 8 (5.67%) Java
5 8 (5.67%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.42%) R
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) C#
8 1 (0.71%) Groovy
8 1 (0.71%) SHACL
8 1 (0.71%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.93%) Degree
2 12 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 12 (8.51%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.84%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.84%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.84%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.42%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (39.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.84%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.84%) GDPR
3 2 (1.42%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.71%) FATCA
4 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.35%) Terraform
2 3 (2.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 34 (24.11%) Google
2 22 (15.60%) Databricks
3 18 (12.77%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.67%) Informatica
5 7 (4.96%) IBM
6 6 (4.26%) Adobe
7 4 (2.84%) SAP
8 3 (2.13%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.13%) BMC
8 3 (2.13%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.13%) Talend
9 2 (1.42%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.71%) Oracle
10 1 (0.71%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.71%) YouTube