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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 342 454
Rank change year-on-year +122 +112 -18
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 186 48 133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.06% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.03% 1.44% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 102 33 112
10th Percentile £41,925 £40,903 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £43,290 £49,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £55,565 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.65% -22.01% +3.71%
75th Percentile £86,548 £68,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% -7.14% +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 2,316 3,344 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.20% 25.35% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,717 2,431 6,247
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.98%

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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 April 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 25 (13.44%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (6.99%) Apache
4 9 (4.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.61%) CMS
5 3 (1.61%) SAS
6 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (18.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (10.75%) Workfront
2 1 (0.54%) HFM
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.42%) Azure
2 46 (24.73%) AWS
3 36 (19.35%) GCP
4 34 (18.28%) iPaaS
5 21 (11.29%) Amazon S3
6 19 (10.22%) Google Analytics
6 19 (10.22%) Snowflake
7 15 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (7.53%) dbt
9 12 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (6.45%) GitHub
10 11 (5.91%) Power Platform
11 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (4.84%) Serverless
13 7 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (3.76%) GitHub Copilot
14 6 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (3.23%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (3.23%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 51 (27.42%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.83%) Tableau
2 19 (10.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (9.68%) BigQuery
3 18 (9.68%) Data Lake
4 15 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.84%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (4.84%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (4.84%) Power BI
7 7 (3.76%) Looker
7 7 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.23%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.69%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.15%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.15%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.61%) DB2
11 3 (1.61%) Parquet
11 3 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.91%) Git
2 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.54%) Maven
2 1 (0.54%) MLflow
2 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (30.65%) Marketing
2 38 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 25 (13.44%) Finance
6 18 (9.68%) Law
7 13 (6.99%) Retail
8 12 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.30%) Automotive
10 5 (2.69%) Legal
10 5 (2.69%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Banking
13 2 (1.08%) Electronics
13 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.54%) Advertising
14 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (23.66%) Senior
2 38 (20.43%) Architect
3 35 (18.82%) Data Engineer
4 32 (17.20%) Lead
5 29 (15.59%) Data Architect
6 26 (13.98%) Product Owner
7 17 (9.14%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (6.99%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (6.99%) Senior Architect
9 11 (5.91%) Analyst
10 10 (5.38%) Senior Data Architect
11 8 (4.30%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.30%) Data Manager
11 8 (4.30%) Lead Architect
12 7 (3.76%) SEO Executive
12 7 (3.76%) SEO Specialist
13 6 (3.23%) Data Consultant
13 6 (3.23%) Governance Consultant
13 6 (3.23%) Product Analyst
13 6 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.14%) Kafka
2 12 (6.45%) PySpark
3 8 (4.30%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.30%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.69%) HTML
4 5 (2.69%) JSON
4 5 (2.69%) XML
5 4 (2.15%) CSS
5 4 (2.15%) XBRL
6 3 (1.61%) .NET
6 3 (1.61%) React
7 2 (1.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (1.08%) SPFx
8 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.54%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.54%) JSON-LD
8 1 (0.54%) Pandas
8 1 (0.54%) SLSA
8 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (24.19%) Social Media
2 40 (21.51%) Product Ownership
3 34 (18.28%) Marketing Technology
3 34 (18.28%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (9.68%) Algorithms
4 18 (9.68%) Cloud Native
5 13 (6.99%) Data Structures
6 10 (5.38%) Public Cloud
6 10 (5.38%) Reference Data
6 10 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (4.84%) Video\Live Streaming
8 6 (3.23%) Anti-Piracy
9 5 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.69%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.15%) Blog
10 4 (2.15%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.15%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (46.77%) Analytics
2 81 (43.55%) Agile
3 77 (41.40%) Data Modelling
4 76 (40.86%) Data Governance
5 72 (38.71%) Metadata Management
6 63 (33.87%) Roadmaps
7 62 (33.33%) Data Architecture
8 61 (32.80%) Decision-Making
9 53 (28.49%) AI
10 49 (26.34%) Data Pipeline
11 48 (25.81%) Workflow
12 47 (25.27%) CI/CD
13 46 (24.73%) DevOps
14 45 (24.19%) Customer Experience
14 45 (24.19%) Digital Marketing
15 42 (22.58%) Data Engineering
15 42 (22.58%) Personalization
16 39 (20.97%) ETL
17 37 (19.89%) User Stories
18 36 (19.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.57%) Python
2 52 (27.96%) SQL
3 14 (7.53%) Scala
4 9 (4.84%) Bash
5 8 (4.30%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.23%) C++
6 6 (3.23%) Java
7 4 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.61%) C#
8 3 (1.61%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.08%) Bicep
9 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.08%) R
10 1 (0.54%) Groovy
10 1 (0.54%) SHACL
10 1 (0.54%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (9.14%) Degree
1 17 (9.14%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.08%) SnowPro
5 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.54%) ISACA
5 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (30.65%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.84%) GDPR
3 4 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.61%) QA
5 2 (1.08%) IFRS
5 2 (1.08%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.08%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 2 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.06%) Terraform
2 3 (1.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 40 (21.51%) Adobe
2 39 (20.97%) Google
3 26 (13.98%) Databricks
4 23 (12.37%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.38%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (3.23%) Ahrefs
6 6 (3.23%) Informatica
7 4 (2.15%) Oracle
7 4 (2.15%) SAP
8 3 (1.61%) BMC
8 3 (1.61%) IBM
8 3 (1.61%) Talend
9 2 (1.08%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.54%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.54%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.54%) YouTube