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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 380 318
Rank change year-on-year +117 -62 +135
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 119 53 228
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.33% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.58% 1.30% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 84 29 111
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,875 £47,813 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £66,367 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -8.46% +7.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,000 £90,822 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,466 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.75% -13.79% +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 2,133 4,076 6,805
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.47% 25.50% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,418 5,768
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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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 3 February 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 15 (12.61%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.56%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) Confluence
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (37.82%) Azure
2 41 (34.45%) AWS
3 29 (24.37%) GCP
4 22 (18.49%) Snowflake
5 18 (15.13%) Amazon S3
6 17 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 14 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (11.76%) GitHub
8 11 (9.24%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (9.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.56%) dbt
9 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (6.72%) Google Analytics
11 7 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (5.04%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (5.04%) Serverless
13 5 (4.20%) Adobe Analytics
13 5 (4.20%) Alation
14 4 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.69%) Tableau
2 25 (21.01%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (15.97%) Data Lake
4 17 (14.29%) Power BI
5 13 (10.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (9.24%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (9.24%) BigQuery
7 9 (7.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (7.56%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (5.88%) Data Vault
8 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.04%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (5.04%) Looker
10 5 (4.20%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.20%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (3.36%) DataStage
11 4 (3.36%) QlikView
11 4 (3.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (9.24%) Git
2 5 (4.20%) ER Studio
3 4 (3.36%) ERwin
3 4 (3.36%) JIRA
3 4 (3.36%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.84%) Maven
4 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (26.05%) Finance
2 27 (22.69%) Public Sector
3 24 (20.17%) Social Skills
4 22 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.24%) Retail
6 10 (8.40%) Marketing
7 8 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.04%) Banking
8 6 (5.04%) Legal
8 6 (5.04%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.20%) Law
10 4 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.36%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.52%) Automotive
11 3 (2.52%) Electronics
11 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.68%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (30.25%) Architect
2 35 (29.41%) Data Architect
3 28 (23.53%) Senior
4 25 (21.01%) Data Engineer
5 22 (18.49%) Lead
6 14 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
7 12 (10.08%) Analyst
8 10 (8.40%) Senior Architect
8 10 (8.40%) Senior Data Architect
9 8 (6.72%) Data Manager
9 8 (6.72%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (5.88%) Governance Manager
11 6 (5.04%) Data Governance Analyst
11 6 (5.04%) Data Governance Manager
12 5 (4.20%) Data Analyst
12 5 (4.20%) Data Consultant
12 5 (4.20%) Data Governance Consultant
12 5 (4.20%) Governance Consultant
12 5 (4.20%) Product Analyst
12 5 (4.20%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.24%) PySpark
2 10 (8.40%) Kafka
3 4 (3.36%) JSON
3 4 (3.36%) PyTorch
3 4 (3.36%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.52%) HTML
5 2 (1.68%) CSS
5 2 (1.68%) Pandas
5 2 (1.68%) XML
6 1 (0.84%) .NET
6 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.84%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.84%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.84%) React
6 1 (0.84%) SLSA
6 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 14 (11.76%) Reference Data
2 12 (10.08%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (8.40%) Management Information System
4 9 (7.56%) Public Cloud
4 9 (7.56%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (5.04%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.04%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.20%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (3.36%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.52%) Semantic Web
8 3 (2.52%) Social Media
9 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.84%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.84%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.84%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (63.87%) Data Governance
2 68 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 68 (57.14%) Metadata Management
3 67 (56.30%) Analytics
4 60 (50.42%) Data Architecture
5 51 (42.86%) DevOps
6 42 (35.29%) CI/CD
7 41 (34.45%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (33.61%) Agile
9 39 (32.77%) Data Management
10 37 (31.09%) AI
10 37 (31.09%) Business Intelligence
11 36 (30.25%) ETL
12 33 (27.73%) Data Engineering
13 31 (26.05%) Data Strategy
13 31 (26.05%) Roadmaps
14 27 (22.69%) Decision-Making
14 27 (22.69%) Master Data Management
15 26 (21.85%) Data Analysis
15 26 (21.85%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.66%) Python
2 44 (36.97%) SQL
3 10 (8.40%) Scala
4 9 (7.56%) Bash
5 8 (6.72%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.68%) Java
6 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.68%) R
7 1 (0.84%) Bicep
7 1 (0.84%) C#
7 1 (0.84%) Groovy
7 1 (0.84%) SHACL
7 1 (0.84%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (10.92%) SC Cleared
1 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.08%) Degree
3 9 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.36%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.36%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.36%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.68%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) ISACA
6 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (43.70%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.36%) GDPR
3 3 (2.52%) QA
4 1 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.84%) FATCA
4 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.76%) Terraform
2 3 (2.52%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (21.85%) Google
2 21 (17.65%) Databricks
3 19 (15.97%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.72%) Informatica
5 7 (5.88%) IBM
6 5 (4.20%) Adobe
7 4 (3.36%) SAP
8 3 (2.52%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.52%) BMC
8 3 (2.52%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.52%) Talend
9 2 (1.68%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.84%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.84%) Oracle
10 1 (0.84%) Sonatype