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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 358 477
Rank change year-on-year +149 +119 -62
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 219 72 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.14% 0.49% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.68% 2.21% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 107 46 96
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £30,750
25th Percentile £51,825 £46,462 £48,505
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% - -5.39%
75th Percentile £81,875 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £78,750 £102,019
UK median annual salary £70,932 £66,367 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.88% -5.19% +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 2,524 3,253 7,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.17% 22.22% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 2,156 6,252
10th Percentile £37,850 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,688 £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 £80,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 29 May 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 (9.59%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (6.85%) Apache
3 14 (6.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 11 (5.02%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.37%) CMS
5 3 (1.37%) SAS
5 3 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (24.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 39 (17.81%) Workfront
2 2 (0.91%) HFM
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.66%) AWS
2 53 (24.20%) iPaaS
3 52 (23.74%) Azure
4 35 (15.98%) GCP
5 22 (10.05%) Google Analytics
6 19 (8.68%) Amazon S3
7 18 (8.22%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.57%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (4.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (4.11%) dbt
9 9 (4.11%) Serverless
9 9 (4.11%) Snowflake
10 8 (3.65%) GitHub
11 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (2.74%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.74%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (2.74%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 83 (37.90%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) 4G
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.50%) Tableau
2 16 (7.31%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (7.31%) BigQuery
3 15 (6.85%) Data Lake
4 13 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.94%) Power BI
5 11 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.11%) Apache Iceberg
6 9 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.65%) Amazon QuickSight
7 8 (3.65%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.74%) Looker
8 6 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.28%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.28%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.83%) MySQL
11 3 (1.37%) DB2
11 3 (1.37%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 10 (4.57%) Git
2 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.91%) MLflow
3 1 (0.46%) Maven
3 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (35.62%) Marketing
2 51 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 44 (20.09%) Public Sector
4 43 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.50%) Law
6 19 (8.68%) Finance
6 19 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (7.31%) Retail
8 8 (3.65%) Automotive
9 6 (2.74%) Legal
10 5 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.91%) Advertising
13 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.46%) Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Billing
14 1 (0.46%) Games
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (23.29%) Senior
2 49 (22.37%) Architect
3 42 (19.18%) Product Owner
4 40 (18.26%) Data Architect
5 38 (17.35%) Data Engineer
6 37 (16.89%) Lead
7 22 (10.05%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (8.22%) Senior Architect
9 15 (6.85%) Senior Data Architect
10 11 (5.02%) Analyst
11 10 (4.57%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) SEO Executive
12 9 (4.11%) SEO Specialist
13 8 (3.65%) Data Analyst
14 7 (3.20%) Consultant
14 7 (3.20%) Senior Consultant
15 6 (2.74%) Data Consultant
15 6 (2.74%) Governance Consultant
15 6 (2.74%) Lead Architect
15 6 (2.74%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.22%) Kafka
2 16 (7.31%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.31%) TensorFlow
3 11 (5.02%) PySpark
4 6 (2.74%) React
5 5 (2.28%) HTML
6 4 (1.83%) .NET
6 4 (1.83%) CSS
6 4 (1.83%) JSON
6 4 (1.83%) XBRL
6 4 (1.83%) XML
7 3 (1.37%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.37%) SPFx
8 2 (0.91%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.91%) Node.js
9 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.46%) SLSA
9 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (28.77%) Social Media
2 61 (27.85%) Product Ownership
3 54 (24.66%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (24.66%) Over-the-Top Content
4 19 (8.68%) Algorithms
5 18 (8.22%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (7.31%) Cloud Native
7 12 (5.48%) Data Structures
8 10 (4.57%) Public Cloud
9 9 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.74%) Anti-Piracy
11 5 (2.28%) Blog
11 5 (2.28%) Driving Licence
11 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.28%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.83%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (47.49%) Agile
2 85 (38.81%) Roadmaps
3 82 (37.44%) Analytics
4 81 (36.99%) Data Modelling
5 74 (33.79%) Decision-Making
6 70 (31.96%) Personalization
7 69 (31.51%) Data Governance
8 67 (30.59%) Digital Marketing
8 67 (30.59%) Workflow
9 64 (29.22%) Customer Experience
10 63 (28.77%) Metadata Management
11 61 (27.85%) Data Architecture
12 57 (26.03%) AI
12 57 (26.03%) CI/CD
13 55 (25.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 55 (25.11%) User Stories
14 53 (24.20%) Matrix Organization
14 53 (24.20%) Product Management
14 53 (24.20%) Product Requirements
14 53 (24.20%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 64 (29.22%) Python
2 45 (20.55%) SQL
3 17 (7.76%) Scala
4 13 (5.94%) Java
5 10 (4.57%) C#
6 8 (3.65%) Bash
7 6 (2.74%) C++
7 6 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.28%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.83%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.37%) Bicep
10 3 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.91%) PHP
11 2 (0.91%) R
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) SHACL
12 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (10.50%) Degree
2 19 (8.68%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.46%) PhD
6 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.66%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.48%) GDPR
3 8 (3.65%) QA
4 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.37%) IFRS
4 3 (1.37%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.37%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.46%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (7.76%) Terraform
2 3 (1.37%) Control-M
3 2 (0.91%) Ansible
3 2 (0.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (26.94%) Adobe
2 40 (18.26%) Google
3 24 (10.96%) Databricks
4 22 (10.05%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.57%) Screaming Frog
6 8 (3.65%) Oracle
7 6 (2.74%) SAP
8 5 (2.28%) Ahrefs
9 4 (1.83%) IBM
9 4 (1.83%) Informatica
9 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.37%) BMC
10 3 (1.37%) Talend
11 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.46%) Hyperion
12 1 (0.46%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.46%) Sonatype
12 1 (0.46%) YouTube