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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 350 422
Rank change year-on-year +110 +72 -80
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 224 77 101
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.03% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.41% 2.41% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 110 49 89
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,903 -
25th Percentile £56,080 £46,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £81,000 £93,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,367 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -1.68% +3.85%

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 3,022 3,189 5,842
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.92% 19.37% 20.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 2,137 4,725
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,089 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,236 £46,250 £46,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,091 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +5.15% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,438 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.22% +1.24% -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 24 July 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 14 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 14 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.80%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.02%) Apache
4 7 (3.13%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (23.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (17.41%) Workfront
2 2 (0.89%) HFM
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 57 (25.45%) Azure
2 53 (23.66%) iPaaS
3 38 (16.96%) AWS
4 25 (11.16%) Power Platform
5 24 (10.71%) Google Analytics
6 20 (8.93%) GCP
7 19 (8.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (8.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (8.48%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (7.59%) Snowflake
9 11 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (4.91%) Google Ads
10 9 (4.02%) dbt
11 7 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.13%) Serverless
12 6 (2.68%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (2.68%) Dagster
12 6 (2.68%) GitHub
12 6 (2.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 81 (36.16%) Broadband
2 1 (0.45%) 4G
2 1 (0.45%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.59%) Data Lake
1 17 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
1 17 (7.59%) Delta Lake
1 17 (7.59%) Power BI
2 14 (6.25%) Tableau
3 12 (5.36%) BigQuery
4 11 (4.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (4.91%) Data Vault
4 11 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.68%) MySQL
7 5 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.79%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.34%) Big Data
9 3 (1.34%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.34%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (2.23%) Git
2 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.89%) MLflow
3 1 (0.45%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.45%) ERwin
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 82 (36.61%) Marketing
2 58 (25.89%) Social Skills
3 49 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 26 (11.61%) Law
6 24 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.82%) Finance
8 14 (6.25%) Retail
9 8 (3.57%) Automotive
10 7 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.68%) Legal
12 5 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.34%) Banking
14 2 (0.89%) Advertising
14 2 (0.89%) Billing
14 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.45%) Games
15 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.45%) Publishing
15 1 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 67 (29.91%) Architect
2 59 (26.34%) Data Architect
3 46 (20.54%) Senior
4 42 (18.75%) Product Owner
5 33 (14.73%) Lead
6 26 (11.61%) Data Engineer
7 21 (9.38%) Senior Architect
8 18 (8.04%) Senior Data Architect
9 17 (7.59%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (6.25%) SEO Specialist
11 12 (5.36%) SEO Executive
12 8 (3.57%) Analyst
13 6 (2.68%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.68%) Technology Owner
14 5 (2.23%) AWS Data Engineer
14 5 (2.23%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.23%) Data Analyst
15 4 (1.79%) Engineering Manager
15 4 (1.79%) Lead Developer
15 4 (1.79%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.59%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.14%) TensorFlow
3 15 (6.70%) PySpark
4 13 (5.80%) Kafka
5 11 (4.91%) React
6 10 (4.46%) CSS
6 10 (4.46%) HTML
7 8 (3.57%) .NET
8 5 (2.23%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.23%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.23%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (2.23%) SPFx
9 4 (1.79%) JSON
9 4 (1.79%) XBRL
9 4 (1.79%) XML
10 2 (0.89%) Node.js
11 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
11 1 (0.45%) FFmpeg
11 1 (0.45%) Ray
11 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (30.80%) Product Ownership
2 62 (27.68%) Social Media
3 54 (24.11%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (24.11%) Over-the-Top Content
4 25 (11.16%) Cloud Native
5 24 (10.71%) Algorithms
6 17 (7.59%) Video\Live Streaming
7 9 (4.02%) Data Structures
7 9 (4.02%) Taxonomies
8 8 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.68%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.23%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.79%) Blog
11 4 (1.79%) Reference Data
12 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (45.09%) Roadmaps
2 95 (42.41%) Agile
3 87 (38.84%) Data Modelling
4 86 (38.39%) Analytics
5 82 (36.61%) AI
5 82 (36.61%) Decision-Making
6 72 (32.14%) Digital Marketing
6 72 (32.14%) Workflow
7 70 (31.25%) Personalization
8 67 (29.91%) Data Architecture
9 65 (29.02%) Customer Experience
10 60 (26.79%) Data Governance
11 56 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
12 55 (24.55%) CI/CD
12 55 (24.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 55 (24.55%) User Stories
13 53 (23.66%) Ideation Sessions
13 53 (23.66%) Product Backlog
13 53 (23.66%) Product Requirements
13 53 (23.66%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.00%) Python
2 41 (18.30%) SQL
3 20 (8.93%) Scala
4 14 (6.25%) Java
5 12 (5.36%) Bicep
6 11 (4.91%) C#
7 8 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.13%) C++
8 7 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.89%) PHP
11 1 (0.45%) Bash
11 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.45%) R
11 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (11.61%) Degree
2 16 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.70%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.46%) SnowPro
8 9 (4.02%) CIPD
9 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.45%) PhD
11 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (29.46%) Data Quality
2 19 (8.48%) GDPR
3 11 (4.91%) QA
4 3 (1.34%) IFRS
4 3 (1.34%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.34%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) PERC
6 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (10.27%) Terraform
2 4 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (24.11%) Adobe
2 34 (15.18%) Google
3 31 (13.84%) Databricks
4 30 (13.39%) Microsoft
5 11 (4.91%) Oracle
6 9 (4.02%) Screaming Frog
7 7 (3.13%) SAP
8 6 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.79%) Ahrefs
9 4 (1.79%) Informatica
10 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.45%) Foundry
11 1 (0.45%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.45%) IBM
11 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.45%) Workday
11 1 (0.45%) YouTube