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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 353 473
Rank change year-on-year +141 +120 -80
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 215 70 113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 0.47% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.59% 2.15% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 104 45 97
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £31,100
25th Percentile £52,113 £45,000 £48,840
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% - -5.39%
75th Percentile £81,563 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £75,500 £100,923
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £69,469
% change year-on-year +9.13% -6.43% +6.87%

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 2,502 3,261 7,430
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.97% 21.94% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 2,175 6,259
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,033
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £79,727 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 5 June 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 20 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (6.51%) Apache
3 11 (5.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.40%) CMS
4 3 (1.40%) SAS
4 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (24.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 39 (18.14%) Workfront
2 2 (0.93%) HFM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (24.65%) AWS
1 53 (24.65%) iPaaS
2 51 (23.72%) Azure
3 34 (15.81%) GCP
4 21 (9.77%) Google Analytics
5 18 (8.37%) Amazon S3
5 18 (8.37%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.19%) Amazon Kinesis
6 9 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (4.19%) dbt
6 9 (4.19%) Serverless
6 9 (4.19%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (2.79%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.79%) Cloud Composer
8 6 (2.79%) Dagster
8 6 (2.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 83 (38.60%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) 4G
2 1 (0.47%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.77%) Tableau
2 15 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (6.98%) BigQuery
3 14 (6.51%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.05%) Power BI
5 10 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (4.19%) Delta Lake
6 9 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.72%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (3.26%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (2.79%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.79%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.79%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.33%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.33%) Looker
10 5 (2.33%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.86%) MySQL
12 3 (1.40%) Db2
12 3 (1.40%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 9 (4.19%) Git
2 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.93%) MLflow
3 1 (0.47%) Maven
3 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (36.28%) Marketing
2 51 (23.72%) Social Skills
3 43 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.23%) Law
5 18 (8.37%) Finance
5 18 (8.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (7.44%) Retail
7 8 (3.72%) Automotive
8 6 (2.79%) Legal
9 5 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Advertising
12 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.47%) Banking
13 1 (0.47%) Electronics
13 1 (0.47%) Games
13 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (23.72%) Senior
2 49 (22.79%) Architect
3 42 (19.53%) Product Owner
4 40 (18.60%) Data Architect
5 36 (16.74%) Data Engineer
6 35 (16.28%) Lead
7 22 (10.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 18 (8.37%) Senior Architect
9 15 (6.98%) Senior Data Architect
10 10 (4.65%) Analyst
11 9 (4.19%) SEO Executive
11 9 (4.19%) SEO Specialist
12 8 (3.72%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (3.26%) Consultant
13 7 (3.26%) Data Analyst
13 7 (3.26%) Senior Consultant
14 6 (2.79%) Data Consultant
14 6 (2.79%) Data Governance Consultant
14 6 (2.79%) Governance Consultant
14 6 (2.79%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.91%) Kafka
2 16 (7.44%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.44%) TensorFlow
3 11 (5.12%) PySpark
4 6 (2.79%) React
5 5 (2.33%) HTML
6 4 (1.86%) .NET
6 4 (1.86%) CSS
6 4 (1.86%) JSON
6 4 (1.86%) XBRL
6 4 (1.86%) XML
7 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.40%) SPFx
8 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.93%) Node.js
9 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.47%) SLSA
9 1 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (29.30%) Social Media
2 61 (28.37%) Product Ownership
3 54 (25.12%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (25.12%) Over-the-Top Content
4 19 (8.84%) Algorithms
5 18 (8.37%) Video\Live Streaming
6 15 (6.98%) Cloud Native
7 12 (5.58%) Data Structures
8 10 (4.65%) Public Cloud
9 8 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.79%) Anti-Piracy
11 5 (2.33%) Blog
11 5 (2.33%) Driving Licence
11 5 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.33%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.86%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (47.44%) Agile
2 84 (39.07%) Roadmaps
3 79 (36.74%) Analytics
3 79 (36.74%) Data Modelling
4 72 (33.49%) Decision-Making
5 70 (32.56%) Personalization
6 67 (31.16%) Digital Marketing
6 67 (31.16%) Workflow
7 66 (30.70%) Data Governance
8 64 (29.77%) Customer Experience
9 61 (28.37%) Metadata Management
10 59 (27.44%) Data Architecture
11 55 (25.58%) AI
11 55 (25.58%) CI/CD
11 55 (25.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 55 (25.58%) User Stories
12 53 (24.65%) Matrix Organization
12 53 (24.65%) Product Backlog
12 53 (24.65%) Product Requirements
12 53 (24.65%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.84%) Python
2 42 (19.53%) SQL
3 18 (8.37%) Scala
4 13 (6.05%) Java
5 10 (4.65%) C#
6 7 (3.26%) Bash
7 6 (2.79%) C++
7 6 (2.79%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.33%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.86%) Bicep
10 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.93%) PHP
11 2 (0.93%) R
12 1 (0.47%) Groovy
12 1 (0.47%) SHACL
12 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.23%) Degree
2 18 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.47%) PhD
6 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.47%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (24.65%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.58%) GDPR
3 8 (3.72%) QA
4 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.40%) IFRS
4 3 (1.40%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.40%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.47%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.37%) Terraform
2 3 (1.40%) Control-M
3 2 (0.93%) Ansible
3 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (26.98%) Adobe
2 39 (18.14%) Google
3 23 (10.70%) Databricks
4 22 (10.23%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.65%) Screaming Frog
6 8 (3.72%) Oracle
7 6 (2.79%) SAP
8 5 (2.33%) Ahrefs
9 4 (1.86%) IBM
9 4 (1.86%) Informatica
9 4 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.40%) BMC
10 3 (1.40%) Talend
11 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.47%) Hyperion
12 1 (0.47%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.47%) Sonatype
12 1 (0.47%) YouTube