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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 353 469
Rank change year-on-year +140 +116 -83
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 229 75 107
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.12% 0.48% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.18% 2.29% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 117 49 92
10th Percentile £35,500 £40,903 £29,350
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,500 £48,505
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +1.96% -7.21%
75th Percentile £86,000 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £106,375
UK median annual salary £70,932 £66,367 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.88% -5.19% +7.69%

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 2,800 3,273 7,334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.74% 20.92% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 2,200 6,105
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,213 £47,500 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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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 26 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 18 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (5.24%) Apache
3 12 (5.24%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.31%) SAS
6 2 (0.87%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (23.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (17.03%) Workfront
2 2 (0.87%) HFM
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.51%) Azure
2 55 (24.02%) AWS
3 53 (23.14%) iPaaS
4 35 (15.28%) GCP
5 25 (10.92%) Power Platform
6 23 (10.04%) Google Analytics
7 15 (6.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (6.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (5.68%) Snowflake
10 11 (4.80%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.93%) dbt
11 9 (3.93%) Serverless
12 7 (3.06%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (3.06%) Google Ads
13 6 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.62%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (2.62%) Dagster
13 6 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 82 (35.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) 4G
2 1 (0.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.61%) Tableau
2 18 (7.86%) Power BI
3 15 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (6.11%) BigQuery
4 14 (6.11%) Data Lake
5 12 (5.24%) Delta Lake
6 11 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (3.49%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.49%) NoSQL
9 7 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (3.06%) Data Vault
10 6 (2.62%) MySQL
11 5 (2.18%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.75%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.75%) Looker
12 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.75%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 7 (3.06%) Git
2 2 (0.87%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.87%) MLflow
3 1 (0.44%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.44%) ERwin
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 79 (34.50%) Marketing
2 56 (24.45%) Social Skills
3 46 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (17.90%) Public Sector
5 23 (10.04%) Law
6 21 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (8.73%) Finance
8 15 (6.55%) Retail
9 8 (3.49%) Automotive
10 6 (2.62%) Legal
11 5 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
13 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Billing
14 1 (0.44%) Games
14 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
14 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (30.57%) Architect
2 61 (26.64%) Data Architect
3 54 (23.58%) Senior
4 42 (18.34%) Product Owner
5 35 (15.28%) Lead
6 28 (12.23%) Data Engineer
6 28 (12.23%) Senior Architect
7 25 (10.92%) Senior Data Architect
8 18 (7.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (4.80%) Analyst
9 11 (4.80%) SEO Specialist
10 9 (3.93%) SEO Executive
11 6 (2.62%) Data Analyst
11 6 (2.62%) Lead Architect
11 6 (2.62%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (2.62%) Technology Owner
12 5 (2.18%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (2.18%) Consultant
12 5 (2.18%) Developer
12 5 (2.18%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.42%) PyTorch
2 16 (6.99%) Kafka
2 16 (6.99%) TensorFlow
3 11 (4.80%) PySpark
4 10 (4.37%) React
5 7 (3.06%) CSS
5 7 (3.06%) HTML
6 6 (2.62%) .NET
7 5 (2.18%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.18%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (2.18%) JSON
7 5 (2.18%) SPFx
8 4 (1.75%) XBRL
8 4 (1.75%) XML
9 3 (1.31%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.87%) Node.js
11 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.44%) FFmpeg
11 1 (0.44%) Ray
11 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.82%) Product Ownership
2 62 (27.07%) Social Media
3 54 (23.58%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (23.58%) Over-the-Top Content
4 21 (9.17%) Algorithms
5 20 (8.73%) Cloud Native
6 18 (7.86%) Video\Live Streaming
7 11 (4.80%) Data Structures
7 11 (4.80%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.62%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.62%) Taxonomies
10 5 (2.18%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.18%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.75%) Blog
12 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.44%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.54%) Agile
2 101 (44.10%) Roadmaps
3 92 (40.17%) Data Modelling
4 84 (36.68%) Analytics
5 80 (34.93%) Decision-Making
6 75 (32.75%) AI
7 74 (32.31%) Data Governance
8 73 (31.88%) Data Architecture
9 70 (30.57%) Personalization
9 70 (30.57%) Workflow
10 69 (30.13%) Digital Marketing
11 64 (27.95%) Customer Experience
12 62 (27.07%) CI/CD
13 61 (26.64%) Metadata Management
14 55 (24.02%) Data Strategy
14 55 (24.02%) Matrix Organization
14 55 (24.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 55 (24.02%) User Stories
15 53 (23.14%) Product Backlog
15 53 (23.14%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.89%) Python
2 43 (18.78%) SQL
3 16 (6.99%) Scala
4 14 (6.11%) Java
5 11 (4.80%) C#
6 8 (3.49%) Bicep
6 8 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.06%) C++
7 7 (3.06%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.18%) Bash
8 5 (2.18%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.87%) PHP
10 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.44%) Groovy
10 1 (0.44%) R
10 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (9.17%) Degree
2 18 (7.86%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.99%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.93%) CIPD
6 7 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.62%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PhD
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (27.07%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.11%) GDPR
3 10 (4.37%) QA
4 3 (1.31%) IFRS
4 3 (1.31%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.31%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (7.86%) Terraform
2 3 (1.31%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) Ansible
Vendors
1 57 (24.89%) Adobe
2 41 (17.90%) Google
3 32 (13.97%) Microsoft
4 27 (11.79%) Databricks
5 11 (4.80%) Oracle
6 9 (3.93%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.62%) SAP
8 5 (2.18%) Informatica
9 4 (1.75%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) Foundry
11 1 (0.44%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.44%) IBM
11 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.44%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.44%) Workday
11 1 (0.44%) YouTube