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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 357 366
Rank change year-on-year +117 +9 +91
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 162 38 191
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.96% 0.29% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.23% 1.09% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 95 25 114
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £55,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -22.81% +3.71%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £88,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,993 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.49% -10.71% +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 2,240 3,475 7,166
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.30% 26.89% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,655 2,442 6,131
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £91,202 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £119,875 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.61% +11.74% -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 29 March 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 (15.43%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (7.41%) Apache
3 8 (4.94%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.85%) CMS
5 3 (1.85%) SAS
6 1 (0.62%) Confluence
6 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (11.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Workfront
2 1 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (29.63%) AWS
2 47 (29.01%) Azure
3 39 (24.07%) GCP
4 24 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 21 (12.96%) Amazon S3
6 18 (11.11%) iPaaS
7 15 (9.26%) GitHub
7 15 (9.26%) Google Analytics
8 14 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (8.64%) dbt
8 14 (8.64%) Power Platform
9 13 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (6.17%) Cloud Composer
12 9 (5.56%) Serverless
13 7 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.32%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.70%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 34 (20.99%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.67%) Tableau
2 22 (13.58%) BigQuery
3 21 (12.96%) Data Lake
3 21 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (11.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (8.64%) Power BI
6 11 (6.79%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (5.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (4.32%) Looker
8 7 (4.32%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.09%) Delta Lake
9 5 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.47%) Data Vault
10 4 (2.47%) DataStage
10 4 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.47%) QlikView
10 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Git
2 4 (2.47%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.47%) ERwin
2 4 (2.47%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) Maven
3 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (21.60%) Marketing
2 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 33 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (19.75%) Public Sector
5 24 (14.81%) Finance
6 17 (10.49%) Law
6 17 (10.49%) Retail
7 11 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.94%) Automotive
9 6 (3.70%) Banking
9 6 (3.70%) Legal
10 5 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.47%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.23%) Electronics
12 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.62%) Advertising
13 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (26.54%) Senior
2 38 (23.46%) Architect
3 35 (21.60%) Data Engineer
4 33 (20.37%) Data Architect
5 25 (15.43%) Lead
6 17 (10.49%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (8.64%) Product Owner
8 13 (8.02%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (8.02%) Senior Architect
9 12 (7.41%) Analyst
10 10 (6.17%) Senior Data Architect
11 8 (4.94%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.94%) Data Manager
12 6 (3.70%) Consultant
12 6 (3.70%) Data Consultant
12 6 (3.70%) Data Governance Consultant
12 6 (3.70%) Governance Consultant
12 6 (3.70%) Governance Manager
12 6 (3.70%) Product Analyst
12 6 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.49%) Kafka
2 12 (7.41%) PySpark
3 8 (4.94%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.94%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.85%) HTML
4 3 (1.85%) JSON
5 2 (1.23%) CSS
6 1 (0.62%) .NET
6 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.62%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.62%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.62%) Pandas
6 1 (0.62%) React
6 1 (0.62%) SLSA
6 1 (0.62%) XML
6 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.28%) Social Media
2 23 (14.20%) Product Ownership
3 18 (11.11%) Marketing Technology
3 18 (11.11%) Over-the-Top Content
4 15 (9.26%) Cloud Native
5 14 (8.64%) Algorithms
6 13 (8.02%) Data Structures
7 12 (7.41%) Reference Data
8 10 (6.17%) Public Cloud
8 10 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (5.56%) Management Information System
9 9 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
10 7 (4.32%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (3.70%) Anti-Piracy
12 4 (2.47%) Reinsurance
13 3 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
14 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (1.23%) Blog
14 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
14 2 (1.23%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (51.23%) Analytics
2 80 (49.38%) Data Governance
3 79 (48.77%) Data Modelling
4 78 (48.15%) Metadata Management
5 65 (40.12%) Data Architecture
6 63 (38.89%) Agile
7 52 (32.10%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (31.48%) Roadmaps
9 50 (30.86%) AI
10 48 (29.63%) CI/CD
10 48 (29.63%) Decision-Making
10 48 (29.63%) DevOps
11 42 (25.93%) ETL
12 41 (25.31%) Data Engineering
13 38 (23.46%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (21.60%) Data Management
15 33 (20.37%) Data Strategy
16 31 (19.14%) Coaching
16 31 (19.14%) Use Case
17 30 (18.52%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 56 (34.57%) Python
2 51 (31.48%) SQL
3 14 (8.64%) Scala
4 9 (5.56%) Bash
5 8 (4.94%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.70%) C++
6 6 (3.70%) Java
7 2 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.23%) R
8 1 (0.62%) Bicep
8 1 (0.62%) C#
8 1 (0.62%) Groovy
8 1 (0.62%) SHACL
8 1 (0.62%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.62%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (11.73%) Degree
2 17 (10.49%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.88%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.09%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.47%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) ISACA
8 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (37.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.70%) GDPR
3 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.62%) IFRS
5 1 (0.62%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (1.85%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (22.84%) Google
2 27 (16.67%) Databricks
3 24 (14.81%) Adobe
4 20 (12.35%) Microsoft
5 10 (6.17%) Informatica
6 7 (4.32%) IBM
7 6 (3.70%) Screaming Frog
8 4 (2.47%) Ahrefs
8 4 (2.47%) SAP
9 3 (1.85%) BMC
9 3 (1.85%) Oracle
9 3 (1.85%) Talend
10 2 (1.23%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.62%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.62%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.62%) YouTube