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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 384 258
Rank change year-on-year +89 -126 +213
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 83 75 238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.40% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 1.66% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 55 52 112
10th Percentile £44,000 - £43,750
25th Percentile £60,875 £37,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,989 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.90% -21.56% -3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £78,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,250 £90,739 £97,466
UK median annual salary £67,500 £58,074 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.23% -17.04% +6.56%

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 2,251 4,507 5,058
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.67% 23.76% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 2,781 4,064
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -2.44%
75th Percentile £81,500 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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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 6 December 2025.

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 6 (7.23%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.02%) CMS
3 4 (4.82%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) Drupal
4 2 (2.41%) EPiServer
4 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.41%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.78%) Azure
2 24 (28.92%) AWS
3 21 (25.30%) Power Platform
4 19 (22.89%) Snowflake
5 16 (19.28%) GCP
6 15 (18.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (14.46%) GitHub
7 12 (14.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (10.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (8.43%) dbt
10 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
11 5 (6.02%) Alation
11 5 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (4.82%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.82%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (4.82%) Google Analytics
12 4 (4.82%) SaaS
12 4 (4.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (30.12%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (25.30%) Data Lake
3 20 (24.10%) Power BI
4 15 (18.07%) Tableau
5 11 (13.25%) Data Vault
6 7 (8.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (8.43%) BigQuery
7 6 (7.23%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (6.02%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.82%) DataStage
9 4 (4.82%) QlikView
9 4 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) JIRA
2 6 (7.23%) ER Studio
3 5 (6.02%) Git
4 4 (4.82%) ERwin
4 4 (4.82%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (2.41%) Grunt
5 2 (2.41%) gulp
5 2 (2.41%) webpack
General
1 33 (39.76%) Finance
2 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 21 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.84%) Banking
6 7 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.43%) Marketing
7 5 (6.02%) Law
7 5 (6.02%) Legal
8 4 (4.82%) Retail
8 4 (4.82%) Retail Banking
9 3 (3.61%) Back Office
10 2 (2.41%) Electronics
10 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.41%) Music Industry
10 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Architect
1 22 (26.51%) Data Architect
2 16 (19.28%) Data Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Lead
4 10 (12.05%) Senior
5 8 (9.64%) Analyst
6 7 (8.43%) Data Manager
6 7 (8.43%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Data Governance Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Data Governance Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Governance Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) GCP Data Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) CSS
1 4 (4.82%) HTML
2 3 (3.61%) PySpark
3 2 (2.41%) CSS3
3 2 (2.41%) HTML5
3 2 (2.41%) JSON
3 2 (2.41%) Kafka
3 2 (2.41%) Node.js
3 2 (2.41%) Pandas
3 2 (2.41%) Redux
3 2 (2.41%) RESTful
3 2 (2.41%) Sass
3 2 (2.41%) XML
4 1 (1.20%) .NET
4 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Reference Data
2 11 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.25%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.84%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.23%) Algorithms
4 6 (7.23%) Data Structures
4 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.82%) Reinsurance
6 3 (3.61%) Blog
6 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Social Media
7 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.41%) Graphic Design
7 2 (2.41%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.41%) Semantic Web
8 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (55.42%) Data Governance
2 45 (54.22%) Analytics
3 42 (50.60%) Data Modelling
4 39 (46.99%) Metadata Management
5 37 (44.58%) Data Architecture
6 29 (34.94%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (32.53%) Data Management
8 24 (28.92%) DevOps
9 23 (27.71%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (25.30%) ETL
11 20 (24.10%) Agile
11 20 (24.10%) AI
11 20 (24.10%) CI/CD
11 20 (24.10%) Roadmaps
12 18 (21.69%) Data Strategy
12 18 (21.69%) Master Data Management
12 18 (21.69%) Migration
13 17 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (20.48%) Data Engineering
13 17 (20.48%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 30 (36.14%) SQL
2 24 (28.92%) Python
3 7 (8.43%) Scala
3 7 (8.43%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.23%) Java
5 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Degree
2 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.82%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.82%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.41%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) ISACA
6 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (43.37%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.61%) GDPR
4 2 (2.41%) QA
5 1 (1.20%) FATCA
5 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Databricks
1 17 (20.48%) Google
2 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.23%) Informatica
4 4 (4.82%) IBM
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle
4 4 (4.82%) SAP
4 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.41%) Ahrefs
5 2 (2.41%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.41%) Hotjar
5 2 (2.41%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.20%) Adobe
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.20%) VMware