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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 347 394
Rank change year-on-year +112 +47 -62
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 243 83 95
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.74% 2.69% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 124 50 80
10th Percentile £33,750 £39,937 -
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,625 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +18.18% -16.98%
75th Percentile £86,063 £72,188 £78,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 3,139 3,083 5,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.82% 18.56% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,520 2,062 3,928
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £38,113
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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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 14 August 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 (5.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.12%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (21.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (16.05%) Workfront
2 3 (1.23%) Shopify
3 2 (0.82%) HFM
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (25.93%) Azure
2 53 (21.81%) iPaaS
3 33 (13.58%) AWS
4 32 (13.17%) Power Platform
5 29 (11.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 27 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 23 (9.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (9.47%) Google Analytics
8 19 (7.82%) Snowflake
9 16 (6.58%) GCP
10 14 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (5.35%) Google Ads
12 11 (4.53%) dbt
13 10 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.70%) Power Automate
15 8 (3.29%) GitHub
16 7 (2.88%) Serverless
17 6 (2.47%) Amazon S3
17 6 (2.47%) Collibra
17 6 (2.47%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 76 (31.28%) Broadband
2 3 (1.23%) SMS
3 1 (0.41%) 4G
3 1 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.41%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.64%) Delta Lake
1 21 (8.64%) Power BI
2 20 (8.23%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.17%) Data Lake
3 15 (6.17%) Data Vault
3 15 (6.17%) Tableau
4 12 (4.94%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.12%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.29%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.47%) MySQL
7 6 (2.47%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (2.47%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.06%) Big Data
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.65%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.29%) Git
2 2 (0.82%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.82%) ERwin
2 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.82%) MLflow
3 1 (0.41%) JIRA
General
1 83 (34.16%) Marketing
2 53 (21.81%) Social Skills
3 44 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (14.81%) Finance
5 33 (13.58%) Public Sector
6 29 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (9.88%) Law
8 16 (6.58%) Retail
9 8 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.88%) Legal
11 5 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.65%) Banking
13 2 (0.82%) Advertising
13 2 (0.82%) Automotive
13 2 (0.82%) Billing
13 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.41%) Publishing
14 1 (0.41%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 70 (28.81%) Architect
2 65 (26.75%) Data Architect
3 55 (22.63%) Senior
4 42 (17.28%) Product Owner
5 33 (13.58%) Lead
6 25 (10.29%) Data Engineer
7 19 (7.82%) Senior Architect
7 19 (7.82%) Senior Data Architect
8 17 (7.00%) Analyst
9 15 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (5.35%) SEO Executive
11 12 (4.94%) SEO Specialist
12 7 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.47%) Consultant
13 6 (2.47%) Data Analyst
13 6 (2.47%) Technology Owner
14 5 (2.06%) Lead Architect
14 5 (2.06%) Operations Analyst
14 5 (2.06%) Senior Operations Analyst
15 4 (1.65%) Senior SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.82%) PySpark
2 13 (5.35%) PyTorch
3 12 (4.94%) Kafka
3 12 (4.94%) TensorFlow
4 11 (4.53%) CSS
4 11 (4.53%) HTML
4 11 (4.53%) React
5 8 (3.29%) .NET
6 5 (2.06%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.06%) ASP.NET
6 5 (2.06%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (2.06%) JSON
6 5 (2.06%) SPFx
6 5 (2.06%) XML
7 4 (1.65%) XBRL
8 2 (0.82%) Node.js
9 1 (0.41%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.41%) FFmpeg
9 1 (0.41%) RESTful
9 1 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (29.22%) Product Ownership
2 61 (25.10%) Social Media
3 54 (22.22%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (22.22%) Over-the-Top Content
4 31 (12.76%) Cloud Native
5 19 (7.82%) Algorithms
6 13 (5.35%) Taxonomies
6 13 (5.35%) Video\Live Streaming
7 8 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.88%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.06%) Anti-Piracy
9 5 (2.06%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.06%) Reference Data
9 5 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.65%) Blog
10 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (46.09%) Roadmaps
2 101 (41.56%) Agile
3 97 (39.92%) Analytics
4 94 (38.68%) Data Modelling
5 89 (36.63%) AI
6 85 (34.98%) Decision-Making
7 76 (31.28%) Digital Marketing
8 73 (30.04%) Data Architecture
9 72 (29.63%) Workflow
10 67 (27.57%) Data Governance
11 66 (27.16%) Personalization
12 62 (25.51%) Customer Experience
13 59 (24.28%) CI/CD
14 58 (23.87%) Data Strategy
15 57 (23.46%) Matrix Organization
16 55 (22.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 55 (22.63%) User Stories
17 53 (21.81%) Product Backlog
17 53 (21.81%) Product Management
17 53 (21.81%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.46%) Python
2 49 (20.16%) SQL
3 23 (9.47%) Scala
4 16 (6.58%) Bicep
5 13 (5.35%) C#
5 13 (5.35%) Java
6 8 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.47%) C++
9 5 (2.06%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.82%) PHP
10 2 (0.82%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.41%) R
11 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (13.58%) Degree
2 17 (7.00%) Azure Certification
2 17 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.76%) SnowPro
6 13 (5.35%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.70%) CIPD
8 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.41%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.41%) OCP
10 1 (0.41%) PhD
10 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 24 (9.88%) GDPR
3 11 (4.53%) QA
4 4 (1.65%) IFRS
4 4 (1.65%) IFRS 17
4 4 (1.65%) Solvency II
5 3 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) PERC
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (11.11%) Terraform
2 5 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (22.22%) Adobe
2 42 (17.28%) Microsoft
3 37 (15.23%) Databricks
4 34 (13.99%) Google
5 11 (4.53%) Oracle
6 9 (3.70%) Informatica
6 9 (3.70%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.47%) SAP
8 4 (1.65%) Ahrefs
9 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.82%) Talend
10 1 (0.41%) Foundry
10 1 (0.41%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.41%) IBM
10 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.41%) Workday
10 1 (0.41%) YouTube