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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 362 286
Rank change year-on-year +91 -76 +158
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 101 70 215
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 0.43% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.88% 1.69% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 72 46 96
10th Percentile £42,500 - £46,000
25th Percentile £57,444 £37,250 £55,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £45,221 £72,292
Median % change year-on-year +76.91% -37.45% +7.10%
75th Percentile £95,625 £75,863 £85,625
90th Percentile £109,000 £90,411 £97,331
UK median annual salary £67,500 £58,074 £72,500
% change year-on-year +16.23% -19.90% +7.41%

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 2,069 4,146 5,412
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.84% 25.23% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,545 2,480 4,425
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,975 £38,170
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 12 January 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 10 (9.90%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.94%) Apache
3 5 (4.95%) CMS
4 4 (3.96%) Confluence
5 2 (1.98%) Drupal
5 2 (1.98%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.98%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.98%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.64%) Azure
2 25 (24.75%) AWS
3 21 (20.79%) Snowflake
4 18 (17.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (15.84%) Amazon S3
5 16 (15.84%) GCP
5 16 (15.84%) Power Platform
6 14 (13.86%) GitHub
7 11 (10.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (10.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (7.92%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (6.93%) dbt
10 7 (6.93%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (6.93%) Google Analytics
11 6 (5.94%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (5.94%) Serverless
12 5 (4.95%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (4.95%) Alation
13 4 (3.96%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.75%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (21.78%) Tableau
3 20 (19.80%) Data Lake
4 16 (15.84%) Power BI
5 11 (10.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (10.89%) BigQuery
6 9 (8.91%) Data Vault
7 8 (7.92%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.94%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (5.94%) Apache Iceberg
8 6 (5.94%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (5.94%) Looker
9 5 (4.95%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.95%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.96%) DataStage
10 4 (3.96%) QlikView
10 4 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.97%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) Git
2 8 (7.92%) JIRA
3 6 (5.94%) ER Studio
4 4 (3.96%) ERwin
4 4 (3.96%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.98%) Grunt
5 2 (1.98%) gulp
5 2 (1.98%) webpack
General
1 34 (33.66%) Finance
2 21 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 20 (19.80%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (18.81%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.91%) Banking
6 8 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.92%) Marketing
7 7 (6.93%) Retail
8 6 (5.94%) Law
8 6 (5.94%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.95%) Legal
10 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.96%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.97%) Electronics
11 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.98%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.99%) Games
13 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Data Engineer
2 23 (22.77%) Architect
2 23 (22.77%) Data Architect
3 19 (18.81%) Senior
4 16 (15.84%) Lead
5 11 (10.89%) Analyst
5 11 (10.89%) Lead Data Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.94%) Governance Manager
9 5 (4.95%) Consultant
9 5 (4.95%) Data Consultant
9 5 (4.95%) Data Governance Analyst
9 5 (4.95%) Data Governance Consultant
9 5 (4.95%) Data Governance Manager
9 5 (4.95%) Developer
9 5 (4.95%) Governance Consultant
9 5 (4.95%) Product Analyst
9 5 (4.95%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (3.96%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) PySpark
2 6 (5.94%) Kafka
3 5 (4.95%) HTML
4 4 (3.96%) CSS
5 3 (2.97%) JSON
6 2 (1.98%) CSS3
6 2 (1.98%) HTML5
6 2 (1.98%) Node.js
6 2 (1.98%) Pandas
6 2 (1.98%) Redux
6 2 (1.98%) RESTful
6 2 (1.98%) Sass
6 2 (1.98%) XML
7 1 (0.99%) .NET
7 1 (0.99%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.99%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.99%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) Reference Data
2 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
3 12 (11.88%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (9.90%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.93%) Algorithms
6 6 (5.94%) Data Structures
6 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
6 6 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.96%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.97%) Blog
8 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.97%) Semantic Web
8 3 (2.97%) Social Media
9 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.98%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.99%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.99%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (57.43%) Analytics
1 58 (57.43%) Data Governance
2 52 (51.49%) Metadata Management
3 50 (49.50%) Data Modelling
4 44 (43.56%) Data Architecture
5 38 (37.62%) Data Pipeline
5 38 (37.62%) DevOps
6 33 (32.67%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (29.70%) ETL
8 28 (27.72%) Agile
8 28 (27.72%) CI/CD
8 28 (27.72%) Data Engineering
9 27 (26.73%) AI
10 26 (25.74%) Data Management
11 24 (23.76%) Roadmaps
12 23 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (21.78%) Decision-Making
14 20 (19.80%) Use Case
15 19 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (18.81%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (38.61%) SQL
2 37 (36.63%) Python
3 11 (10.89%) Scala
4 8 (7.92%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.94%) Bash
6 4 (3.96%) Java
6 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.98%) R
8 1 (0.99%) Bicep
8 1 (0.99%) C#
8 1 (0.99%) SHACL
8 1 (0.99%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
1 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) Degree
3 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.96%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.98%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) ISACA
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (49.50%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.98%) QA
5 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.99%) FATCA
5 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.87%) Terraform
2 3 (2.97%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Databricks
2 18 (17.82%) Google
3 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.93%) IBM
5 6 (5.94%) Informatica
6 5 (4.95%) Adobe
7 4 (3.96%) SAP
8 3 (2.97%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.97%) BMC
8 3 (2.97%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.97%) Talend
9 2 (1.98%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.99%) Oracle
10 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow