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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 336 451
Rank change year-on-year +126 +115 -15
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 196 57 122
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.48% 1.75% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 108 42 109
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £35,500
25th Percentile £50,211 £43,718 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -10.34% +6.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,125 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,842 £66,367 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -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 2,310 3,261 7,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.73% 24.24% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,732 2,405 6,233
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,199
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 £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 1 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 24 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (8.16%) Apache
3 14 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (6.12%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.53%) CMS
5 3 (1.53%) SAS
5 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (17.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (10.20%) Workfront
2 1 (0.51%) HFM
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (27.04%) AWS
2 51 (26.02%) Azure
3 38 (19.39%) GCP
4 34 (17.35%) iPaaS
5 22 (11.22%) Google Analytics
6 20 (10.20%) Amazon S3
7 13 (6.63%) Power Platform
7 13 (6.63%) Snowflake
8 12 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (6.12%) GitHub
9 11 (5.61%) Amazon Kinesis
9 11 (5.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (5.10%) dbt
10 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (4.59%) Serverless
12 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.06%) Dagster
12 6 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 56 (28.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) 4G
2 1 (0.51%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.22%) Tableau
2 18 (9.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 18 (9.18%) BigQuery
3 16 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 14 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (5.10%) Apache Iceberg
7 9 (4.59%) Amazon QuickSight
8 8 (4.08%) Power BI
9 7 (3.57%) Delta Lake
9 7 (3.57%) Looker
9 7 (3.57%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.06%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.55%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.53%) Big Data
12 3 (1.53%) DB2
12 3 (1.53%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.12%) Git
2 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.02%) MLflow
3 1 (0.51%) Maven
3 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (31.12%) Marketing
2 42 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 37 (18.88%) Public Sector
4 36 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.22%) Finance
6 20 (10.20%) Law
7 13 (6.63%) Retail
8 12 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.08%) Automotive
10 5 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.04%) Legal
11 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.53%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.02%) Advertising
13 2 (1.02%) Banking
13 2 (1.02%) Electronics
14 1 (0.51%) Billing
14 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) Senior
2 42 (21.43%) Architect
3 37 (18.88%) Data Engineer
3 37 (18.88%) Lead
4 33 (16.84%) Data Architect
5 27 (13.78%) Product Owner
6 18 (9.18%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (7.65%) Senior Architect
8 13 (6.63%) Lead Data Engineer
9 12 (6.12%) Senior Data Architect
10 11 (5.61%) Analyst
11 9 (4.59%) SEO Executive
11 9 (4.59%) SEO Specialist
12 8 (4.08%) Data Analyst
12 8 (4.08%) Lead Architect
13 6 (3.06%) Data Consultant
13 6 (3.06%) Data Manager
13 6 (3.06%) Governance Consultant
13 6 (3.06%) Product Analyst
13 6 (3.06%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.69%) Kafka
2 13 (6.63%) PySpark
3 8 (4.08%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.08%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.06%) HTML
4 6 (3.06%) React
5 5 (2.55%) CSS
5 5 (2.55%) JSON
5 5 (2.55%) XML
6 4 (2.04%) .NET
6 4 (2.04%) XBRL
7 3 (1.53%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.53%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.53%) SPFx
8 2 (1.02%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.02%) Node.js
9 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.51%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.51%) SLSA
9 1 (0.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (22.96%) Social Media
2 42 (21.43%) Product Ownership
3 35 (17.86%) Marketing Technology
3 35 (17.86%) Over-the-Top Content
4 20 (10.20%) Algorithms
4 20 (10.20%) Cloud Native
5 12 (6.12%) Data Structures
6 10 (5.10%) Public Cloud
6 10 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.10%) Video\Live Streaming
7 9 (4.59%) Reference Data
8 6 (3.06%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.55%) Blog
9 5 (2.55%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.04%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (44.39%) Analytics
2 81 (41.33%) Agile
3 78 (39.80%) Data Modelling
4 72 (36.73%) Data Governance
5 69 (35.20%) Metadata Management
6 61 (31.12%) Roadmaps
7 60 (30.61%) Data Architecture
8 59 (30.10%) Decision-Making
9 55 (28.06%) CI/CD
10 54 (27.55%) AI
11 51 (26.02%) Data Pipeline
12 49 (25.00%) DevOps
12 49 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
12 49 (25.00%) Workflow
13 46 (23.47%) Customer Experience
14 45 (22.96%) Data Engineering
15 43 (21.94%) Personalization
16 41 (20.92%) ETL
17 37 (18.88%) User Stories
18 36 (18.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.63%) Python
2 53 (27.04%) SQL
3 17 (8.67%) Scala
4 13 (6.63%) Java
5 10 (5.10%) C#
6 9 (4.59%) Bash
7 6 (3.06%) C++
7 6 (3.06%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.06%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.53%) Bicep
8 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.02%) PHP
9 2 (1.02%) R
10 1 (0.51%) Groovy
10 1 (0.51%) SHACL
10 1 (0.51%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (9.69%) Degree
1 19 (9.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.51%) ISACA
5 1 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (27.55%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.63%) GDPR
3 8 (4.08%) QA
4 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.53%) IFRS
5 3 (1.53%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.53%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.51%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.67%) Terraform
2 3 (1.53%) Control-M
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (21.94%) Google
2 40 (20.41%) Adobe
3 25 (12.76%) Microsoft
4 24 (12.24%) Databricks
5 11 (5.61%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (3.06%) Ahrefs
7 5 (2.55%) Informatica
8 4 (2.04%) Oracle
8 4 (2.04%) SAP
9 3 (1.53%) BMC
9 3 (1.53%) IBM
9 3 (1.53%) Talend
10 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.51%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.51%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.51%) YouTube