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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 390 301
Rank change year-on-year +134 -89 +135
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 116 54 224
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 0.33% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.47% 1.30% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 84 28 106
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,487 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,875 £51,328 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,934 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -7.68% +7.41%
75th Percentile £95,625 £83,750 £88,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,325 £97,331
UK median annual salary £69,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.20% -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 2,121 4,165 6,180
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.59% 25.44% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,560 2,472 5,155
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,213 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year -6.98% +8.30% -4.71%

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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 24 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 13 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.90%) Apache
3 5 (4.31%) CMS
4 4 (3.45%) Confluence
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.72%) Drupal
5 2 (1.72%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.72%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.86%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (41.38%) Azure
2 40 (34.48%) AWS
3 29 (25.00%) GCP
4 22 (18.97%) Snowflake
5 18 (15.52%) Amazon S3
5 18 (15.52%) Power Platform
6 17 (14.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (12.07%) GitHub
8 12 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (9.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (8.62%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (6.90%) dbt
13 7 (6.03%) GitHub Copilot
13 7 (6.03%) Serverless
14 6 (5.17%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (5.17%) Google Analytics
15 5 (4.31%) Adobe Analytics
15 5 (4.31%) Alation
15 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.41%) Data Warehouse
1 26 (22.41%) Tableau
2 20 (17.24%) Data Lake
3 18 (15.52%) Power BI
4 13 (11.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (9.48%) BigQuery
6 10 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (6.90%) Amazon QuickSight
7 8 (6.90%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (6.90%) Data Vault
8 6 (5.17%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (5.17%) Looker
8 6 (5.17%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.31%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.31%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.45%) DataStage
10 4 (3.45%) QlikView
10 4 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Git
2 7 (6.03%) JIRA
3 6 (5.17%) ER Studio
4 4 (3.45%) ERwin
4 4 (3.45%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.72%) Grunt
5 2 (1.72%) gulp
5 2 (1.72%) webpack
6 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.86%) Maven
6 1 (0.86%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (30.17%) Finance
2 27 (23.28%) Public Sector
3 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 19 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.76%) Banking
6 8 (6.90%) Marketing
6 8 (6.90%) Retail
7 7 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.17%) Legal
8 6 (5.17%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.31%) Law
10 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.45%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.59%) Electronics
11 3 (2.59%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.72%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (31.03%) Architect
2 35 (30.17%) Data Architect
3 28 (24.14%) Senior
4 27 (23.28%) Data Engineer
5 18 (15.52%) Lead
6 13 (11.21%) Lead Data Engineer
7 12 (10.34%) Analyst
8 10 (8.62%) Senior Architect
8 10 (8.62%) Senior Data Architect
9 8 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (6.03%) Data Manager
11 6 (5.17%) Developer
11 6 (5.17%) Governance Manager
12 5 (4.31%) Consultant
12 5 (4.31%) Data Analyst
12 5 (4.31%) Data Governance Consultant
12 5 (4.31%) Data Governance Manager
12 5 (4.31%) Governance Consultant
12 5 (4.31%) Product Analyst
12 5 (4.31%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.48%) PySpark
2 9 (7.76%) Kafka
3 5 (4.31%) HTML
4 4 (3.45%) CSS
4 4 (3.45%) JSON
5 2 (1.72%) CSS3
5 2 (1.72%) HTML5
5 2 (1.72%) Node.js
5 2 (1.72%) Pandas
5 2 (1.72%) Redux
5 2 (1.72%) RESTful
5 2 (1.72%) Sass
5 2 (1.72%) XML
6 1 (0.86%) .NET
6 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.86%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.86%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.86%) React
6 1 (0.86%) SLSA
6 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.93%) Reference Data
2 14 (12.07%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (9.48%) Management Information System
5 9 (7.76%) Public Cloud
6 8 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (5.17%) Algorithms
7 6 (5.17%) Data Structures
7 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.45%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.59%) Semantic Web
9 3 (2.59%) Social Media
10 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.72%) Blog
10 2 (1.72%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.86%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (63.79%) Data Governance
2 67 (57.76%) Metadata Management
3 66 (56.90%) Data Modelling
4 64 (55.17%) Analytics
5 59 (50.86%) Data Architecture
6 50 (43.10%) DevOps
7 40 (34.48%) Agile
7 40 (34.48%) CI/CD
7 40 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (31.90%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (31.90%) Data Management
9 35 (30.17%) ETL
10 31 (26.72%) Data Engineering
11 29 (25.00%) AI
11 29 (25.00%) Data Strategy
12 27 (23.28%) Roadmaps
13 26 (22.41%) Decision-Making
14 25 (21.55%) Master Data Management
14 25 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (19.83%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 43 (37.07%) SQL
2 41 (35.34%) Python
3 11 (9.48%) Scala
4 8 (6.90%) Bash
4 8 (6.90%) T-SQL
5 4 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) Java
7 2 (1.72%) R
8 1 (0.86%) Bicep
8 1 (0.86%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) Groovy
8 1 (0.86%) SHACL
8 1 (0.86%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) SC Cleared
1 15 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.34%) Degree
3 8 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.72%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.86%) ISACA
7 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (45.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.45%) GDPR
4 3 (2.59%) QA
5 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.86%) FATCA
5 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (12.07%) Terraform
2 3 (2.59%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (21.55%) Google
2 21 (18.10%) Databricks
3 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.90%) Informatica
5 7 (6.03%) IBM
6 5 (4.31%) Adobe
7 4 (3.45%) SAP
8 3 (2.59%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.59%) BMC
8 3 (2.59%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.59%) Talend
9 2 (1.72%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.86%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.86%) Oracle
10 1 (0.86%) Sonatype