Metadata Jobs with Work from Home Options

Metadata
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 277 487
Rank change year-on-year -17 +210 +31
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 218 278 357
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 1.14% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 4.68% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 56 127 254
10th Percentile - £42,898 £50,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £54,375 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -14.39% +11.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £92,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £113,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +8.00%

All Database and 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 5,628 5,939 16,540
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.68% 24.29% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 4,493 9,683
10th Percentile £39,250 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,715 £80,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.93% +6.40%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Metadata trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata.

Metadata salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Metadata over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Metadata salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (4.59%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.75%) Confluence
3 2 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (68.35%) GCP
2 148 (67.89%) Collibra
3 31 (14.22%) Azure
4 20 (9.17%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.34%) AWS
6 14 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (5.50%) Snowflake
8 10 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (3.67%) GitHub
9 8 (3.67%) Serverless
10 6 (2.75%) Alation
10 6 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.75%) dbt
11 4 (1.83%) Matillion
11 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (0.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (0.92%) Dagster
12 2 (0.92%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 143 (65.60%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (67.43%) BigQuery
2 145 (66.51%) Data Hub
3 28 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (9.17%) Power BI
5 17 (7.80%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.13%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.75%) Big Data
8 6 (2.75%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.75%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.29%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.29%) Tableau
10 4 (1.83%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.83%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 6 (2.75%) JIRA
2 2 (0.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 158 (72.48%) Analytical Skills
2 152 (69.72%) Social Skills
3 36 (16.51%) Finance
4 21 (9.63%) Marketing
5 7 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.75%) Banking
7 2 (0.92%) Law
7 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (0.92%) Retail
7 2 (0.92%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.46%) Local Government
8 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 164 (75.23%) Senior
2 154 (70.64%) Analyst
3 153 (70.18%) Data Analyst
4 149 (68.35%) Senior Analyst
5 21 (9.63%) CRM Executive
6 15 (6.88%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.42%) Architect
7 14 (6.42%) Data Architect
8 10 (4.59%) Governance Analyst
9 7 (3.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (2.75%) Senior Architect
10 6 (2.75%) Senior Data Architect
11 5 (2.29%) Banking Analyst
11 5 (2.29%) Developer
12 4 (1.83%) Data Migration Architect
12 4 (1.83%) Migration Architect
12 4 (1.83%) SQL Developer
13 3 (1.38%) Software Engineer
14 2 (0.92%) Consultant
14 2 (0.92%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.21%) PySpark
2 2 (0.92%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (0.92%) NumPy
2 2 (0.92%) Pandas
2 2 (0.92%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (0.46%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 143 (65.60%) Over-the-Top Content
2 6 (2.75%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.92%) NHS
6 2 (0.92%) Wiki
7 1 (0.46%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (0.46%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.46%) IoT
7 1 (0.46%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (0.92%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (91.74%) Data Governance
2 176 (80.73%) Metadata Management
3 175 (80.28%) Data Management
4 164 (75.23%) Analytics
4 164 (75.23%) Customer Experience
5 155 (71.10%) Data Transformation
6 153 (70.18%) Problem-Solving
7 149 (68.35%) Data Lineage
8 27 (12.39%) Data Modelling
8 27 (12.39%) DataOps
8 27 (12.39%) ETL
9 23 (10.55%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (9.63%) CRM
10 21 (9.63%) Lead Generation
10 21 (9.63%) Performance Monitoring
11 19 (8.72%) Data Analysis
12 18 (8.26%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (7.34%) Data Architecture
14 15 (6.88%) Agile
15 14 (6.42%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (17.43%) SQL
2 26 (11.93%) Python
3 8 (3.67%) PL/SQL
4 7 (3.21%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.38%) Java
5 3 (1.38%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.38%) R
6 1 (0.46%) Scala
6 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (5.96%) Degree
2 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.83%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.92%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (90.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.83%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (2.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 153 (70.18%) Informatica
2 148 (67.89%) Oracle
3 143 (65.60%) Cloudera
4 24 (11.01%) Salesforce
5 21 (9.63%) Databricks
6 9 (4.13%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.29%) Google
8 4 (1.83%) Teradata
9 2 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.92%) SAP
10 1 (0.46%) Marketo
10 1 (0.46%) SnapLogic