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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 381 270
Rank change year-on-year +101 -111 +192
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 98 72 217
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.64% 0.42% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.53% 1.70% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 68 48 98
10th Percentile £42,500 - £50,125
25th Percentile £52,400 £37,250 £56,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £47,460 £71,042
Median % change year-on-year +63.30% -33.20% +5.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £78,125 £84,375
90th Percentile £112,250 £90,822 £97,264
UK median annual salary £67,500 £58,648 £72,085
% change year-on-year +15.09% -18.64% +6.79%

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 2,165 4,240 4,989
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.25% 24.81% 24.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,610 2,578 4,010
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,326 £39,602
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £93,825
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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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 30 December 2025.

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 8 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.12%) CMS
3 4 (4.08%) Apache
3 4 (4.08%) Confluence
4 2 (2.04%) Drupal
4 2 (2.04%) EPiServer
4 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.04%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.76%) Azure
2 23 (23.47%) AWS
3 21 (21.43%) Snowflake
4 18 (18.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (18.37%) Power Platform
5 15 (15.31%) GCP
6 14 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 14 (14.29%) GitHub
7 12 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (7.14%) dbt
10 7 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (6.12%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (6.12%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (6.12%) Google Analytics
12 5 (5.10%) Alation
12 5 (5.10%) Serverless
13 4 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (4.08%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.51%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (22.45%) Data Lake
3 18 (18.37%) Tableau
4 17 (17.35%) Power BI
5 10 (10.20%) Data Vault
6 9 (9.18%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (9.18%) BigQuery
7 6 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (6.12%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (5.10%) Metadata Repository
8 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon QuickSight
9 4 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.08%) DataStage
9 4 (4.08%) Delta Lake
9 4 (4.08%) Looker
9 4 (4.08%) QlikView
9 4 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.06%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Git
1 8 (8.16%) JIRA
2 6 (6.12%) ER Studio
3 4 (4.08%) ERwin
3 4 (4.08%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.04%) Grunt
4 2 (2.04%) gulp
4 2 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 34 (34.69%) Finance
2 21 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.39%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.18%) Banking
4 9 (9.18%) Marketing
5 8 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.12%) Law
6 6 (6.12%) Legal
6 6 (6.12%) Retail
7 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Retail Banking
9 3 (3.06%) Electronics
9 3 (3.06%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.04%) Music Industry
11 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.02%) Games
11 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) Data Engineer
2 22 (22.45%) Architect
2 22 (22.45%) Data Architect
3 18 (18.37%) Senior
4 14 (14.29%) Lead
5 9 (9.18%) Analyst
5 9 (9.18%) Lead Data Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Data Manager
7 6 (6.12%) Governance Manager
8 5 (5.10%) Data Governance Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Data Governance Manager
8 5 (5.10%) Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) PySpark
2 5 (5.10%) HTML
3 4 (4.08%) CSS
3 4 (4.08%) Kafka
4 3 (3.06%) JSON
5 2 (2.04%) .NET
5 2 (2.04%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.04%) CSS3
5 2 (2.04%) HTML5
5 2 (2.04%) Node.js
5 2 (2.04%) Pandas
5 2 (2.04%) Redux
5 2 (2.04%) RESTful
5 2 (2.04%) Sass
5 2 (2.04%) XML
6 1 (1.02%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.02%) JSON-LD
6 1 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Reference Data
2 14 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 12 (12.24%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (11.22%) Management Information System
5 7 (7.14%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.12%) Data Structures
6 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.08%) Blog
7 4 (4.08%) Reinsurance
7 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.08%) Social Media
8 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (3.06%) Semantic Web
9 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.04%) Graphic Design
10 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.02%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (58.16%) Analytics
2 52 (53.06%) Data Governance
3 50 (51.02%) Metadata Management
4 49 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 41 (41.84%) Data Architecture
6 36 (36.73%) DevOps
7 35 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (33.67%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (29.59%) ETL
10 28 (28.57%) Agile
11 26 (26.53%) CI/CD
11 26 (26.53%) Data Management
12 25 (25.51%) AI
12 25 (25.51%) Data Engineering
13 22 (22.45%) Decision-Making
13 22 (22.45%) Roadmaps
14 20 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (18.37%) Data Strategy
16 18 (18.37%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.73%) Python
1 36 (36.73%) SQL
2 13 (13.27%) Scala
3 9 (9.18%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.10%) Java
5 4 (4.08%) Bash
5 4 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.04%) Bicep
6 2 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) R
7 1 (1.02%) SHACL
7 1 (1.02%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) SC Cleared
1 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) Degree
3 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.08%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.04%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) ISACA
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (48.98%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.10%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.02%) FATCA
5 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.29%) Terraform
2 3 (3.06%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Databricks
2 18 (18.37%) Google
3 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.14%) IBM
5 6 (6.12%) Informatica
6 4 (4.08%) SAP
7 3 (3.06%) Adobe
7 3 (3.06%) Ahrefs
7 3 (3.06%) BMC
7 3 (3.06%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (3.06%) Talend
8 2 (2.04%) Hotjar
9 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle
9 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow