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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 353 454
Rank change year-on-year +150 +101 -24
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 191 55 123
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 0.41% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.20% 1.65% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 106 41 111
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,132 £45,000 £49,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -7.14% +1.89%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,752 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.82% -3.57% +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 2,329 3,336 7,239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.01% 24.93% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 2,427 6,246
10th Percentile £37,425 £37,500 £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 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
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 23 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 24 (12.57%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (7.85%) Apache
3 14 (7.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 11 (5.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.57%) CMS
5 3 (1.57%) SAS
6 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (17.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (10.47%) Workfront
2 1 (0.52%) HFM
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (26.18%) Azure
2 48 (25.13%) AWS
3 37 (19.37%) GCP
4 34 (17.80%) iPaaS
5 21 (10.99%) Google Analytics
6 20 (10.47%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.85%) Snowflake
8 13 (6.81%) Power Platform
9 12 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (6.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (6.28%) GitHub
10 11 (5.76%) Amazon Kinesis
10 11 (5.76%) dbt
11 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (4.71%) Serverless
12 7 (3.66%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (3.14%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.14%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (3.14%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 52 (27.23%) Broadband
2 1 (0.52%) 4G
2 1 (0.52%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.52%) Tableau
2 18 (9.42%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (9.42%) BigQuery
3 15 (7.85%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.28%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (5.24%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (4.71%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (4.71%) Power BI
8 7 (3.66%) Looker
8 7 (3.66%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.14%) Delta Lake
9 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.14%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.62%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.57%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.57%) DB2
11 3 (1.57%) IBM InfoSphere
11 3 (1.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.28%) Git
2 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Maven
3 1 (0.52%) MLflow
3 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (31.94%) Marketing
2 36 (18.85%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (18.32%) Social Skills
4 34 (17.80%) Public Sector
5 23 (12.04%) Finance
6 18 (9.42%) Law
7 13 (6.81%) Retail
8 10 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.19%) Automotive
10 5 (2.62%) Legal
10 5 (2.62%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.05%) Advertising
13 2 (1.05%) Banking
13 2 (1.05%) Electronics
13 2 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Billing
14 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (25.13%) Senior
2 38 (19.90%) Architect
3 37 (19.37%) Data Engineer
4 32 (16.75%) Lead
5 29 (15.18%) Data Architect
6 27 (14.14%) Product Owner
7 18 (9.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) Senior Architect
9 13 (6.81%) Lead Data Engineer
10 12 (6.28%) Senior Data Architect
11 11 (5.76%) Analyst
12 9 (4.71%) SEO Specialist
13 8 (4.19%) Data Analyst
13 8 (4.19%) Data Manager
13 8 (4.19%) Lead Architect
13 8 (4.19%) SEO Executive
14 6 (3.14%) Data Consultant
14 6 (3.14%) Governance Consultant
14 6 (3.14%) Product Analyst
14 6 (3.14%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.95%) Kafka
2 13 (6.81%) PySpark
3 8 (4.19%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.19%) TensorFlow
4 7 (3.66%) HTML
5 6 (3.14%) CSS
6 5 (2.62%) JSON
6 5 (2.62%) React
6 5 (2.62%) XML
7 4 (2.09%) XBRL
8 3 (1.57%) .NET
9 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.05%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.05%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.05%) Node.js
9 2 (1.05%) SPFx
10 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.52%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.52%) Pandas
10 1 (0.52%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 46 (24.08%) Social Media
2 41 (21.47%) Product Ownership
3 35 (18.32%) Marketing Technology
3 35 (18.32%) Over-the-Top Content
4 21 (10.99%) Algorithms
5 16 (8.38%) Cloud Native
6 12 (6.28%) Data Structures
7 10 (5.24%) Public Cloud
7 10 (5.24%) Reference Data
7 10 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (3.14%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.62%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.62%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.09%) Blog
11 4 (2.09%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (45.55%) Analytics
2 78 (40.84%) Agile
3 76 (39.79%) Data Modelling
4 75 (39.27%) Data Governance
5 71 (37.17%) Metadata Management
6 61 (31.94%) Decision-Making
6 61 (31.94%) Roadmaps
7 59 (30.89%) Data Architecture
8 53 (27.75%) AI
9 50 (26.18%) CI/CD
9 50 (26.18%) Data Pipeline
10 48 (25.13%) Digital Marketing
10 48 (25.13%) Workflow
11 47 (24.61%) DevOps
12 46 (24.08%) Customer Experience
13 45 (23.56%) Data Engineering
14 43 (22.51%) Personalization
15 39 (20.42%) ETL
16 37 (19.37%) User Stories
17 36 (18.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.37%) Python
2 53 (27.75%) SQL
3 16 (8.38%) Scala
4 9 (4.71%) Bash
5 8 (4.19%) Java
6 7 (3.66%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.14%) C++
7 6 (3.14%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.62%) C#
8 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.05%) Bicep
9 2 (1.05%) PHP
9 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.05%) R
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) SHACL
10 1 (0.52%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.90%) Degree
3 16 (8.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) ISACA
6 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (29.32%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.28%) GDPR
3 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.09%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) IFRS
5 2 (1.05%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.05%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.52%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (2.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.38%) Terraform
2 3 (1.57%) Control-M
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
3 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 42 (21.99%) Google
2 40 (20.94%) Adobe
3 24 (12.57%) Databricks
3 24 (12.57%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.76%) Screaming Frog
5 6 (3.14%) Ahrefs
5 6 (3.14%) Informatica
6 4 (2.09%) Oracle
6 4 (2.09%) SAP
7 3 (1.57%) BMC
7 3 (1.57%) IBM
7 3 (1.57%) Talend
8 2 (1.05%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.05%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.52%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.52%) YouTube