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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 383 359
Rank change year-on-year +135 -24 +89
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 147 39 204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.89% 0.28% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.00% 1.02% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 93 25 109
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £35,500
25th Percentile £60,875 £47,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% -14.29% +2.79%
75th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,493 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.49% -10.71% +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 2,101 3,825 7,083
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.69% 27.22% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,517 2,471 6,068
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £44,201
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +15.22% -8.49%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%

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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 9 March 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 25 (17.01%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (8.16%) Apache
3 8 (5.44%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.72%) Confluence
5 3 (2.04%) CMS
5 3 (2.04%) SAS
6 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Workfront
2 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.33%) Azure
2 48 (32.65%) AWS
3 39 (26.53%) GCP
4 26 (17.69%) Snowflake
5 21 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 16 (10.88%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.20%) dbt
7 15 (10.20%) GitHub
8 14 (9.52%) Google Analytics
9 13 (8.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (8.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (6.80%) Cloud Composer
12 9 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (6.12%) Serverless
13 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
15 6 (4.08%) Adobe Analytics
15 6 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.24%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.73%) Tableau
2 27 (18.37%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (14.97%) BigQuery
4 20 (13.61%) Data Lake
5 19 (12.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (10.88%) Power BI
7 11 (7.48%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (6.12%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (6.12%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (4.76%) Looker
9 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.08%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (3.40%) Data Vault
11 5 (3.40%) Delta Lake
11 5 (3.40%) DynamoDB
11 5 (3.40%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (2.72%) DataStage
12 4 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (2.72%) QlikView
12 4 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (7.48%) Git
2 4 (2.72%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.72%) ERwin
2 4 (2.72%) JIRA
2 4 (2.72%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Maven
3 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (22.45%) Public Sector
4 28 (19.05%) Finance
5 17 (11.56%) Marketing
5 17 (11.56%) Retail
6 14 (9.52%) Law
7 10 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.44%) Automotive
9 6 (4.08%) Banking
9 6 (4.08%) Legal
10 5 (3.40%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.72%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.36%) Electronics
12 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.68%) Advertising
13 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.68%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (27.89%) Senior
2 40 (27.21%) Architect
3 35 (23.81%) Data Architect
3 35 (23.81%) Data Engineer
4 23 (15.65%) Lead
5 17 (11.56%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Analyst
7 13 (8.84%) Lead Data Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) Senior Architect
8 10 (6.80%) Data Manager
8 10 (6.80%) Senior Data Architect
9 7 (4.76%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) Governance Manager
10 6 (4.08%) Data Governance Analyst
10 6 (4.08%) Data Governance Manager
10 6 (4.08%) Product Analyst
11 5 (3.40%) Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) Governance Consultant
11 5 (3.40%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.56%) Kafka
2 12 (8.16%) PySpark
3 8 (5.44%) PyTorch
3 8 (5.44%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.04%) HTML
4 3 (2.04%) JSON
5 2 (1.36%) CSS
6 1 (0.68%) .NET
6 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.68%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.68%) Pandas
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) SLSA
6 1 (0.68%) XML
6 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 14 (9.52%) Reference Data
2 13 (8.84%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.16%) Data Structures
3 12 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (8.16%) Social Media
4 11 (7.48%) Product Ownership
5 10 (6.80%) Public Cloud
5 10 (6.80%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (6.12%) Management Information System
6 9 (6.12%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (4.08%) Anti-Piracy
8 4 (2.72%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.36%) Over-the-Top Content
10 2 (1.36%) Semantic Web
11 1 (0.68%) Linked Data
11 1 (0.68%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (57.82%) Data Governance
2 80 (54.42%) Analytics
2 80 (54.42%) Data Modelling
3 79 (53.74%) Metadata Management
4 67 (45.58%) Data Architecture
5 52 (35.37%) Data Pipeline
6 51 (34.69%) DevOps
7 48 (32.65%) Agile
7 48 (32.65%) CI/CD
8 47 (31.97%) AI
9 43 (29.25%) ETL
10 41 (27.89%) Data Engineering
11 40 (27.21%) Data Management
12 39 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (25.17%) Roadmaps
14 34 (23.13%) Coaching
15 33 (22.45%) Data Strategy
16 32 (21.77%) Data Analysis
17 31 (21.09%) Use Case
18 28 (19.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.46%) Python
2 53 (36.05%) SQL
3 14 (9.52%) Scala
4 9 (6.12%) Bash
5 8 (5.44%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.08%) C++
6 6 (4.08%) Java
7 2 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.36%) R
8 1 (0.68%) Bicep
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) Groovy
8 1 (0.68%) SHACL
8 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (11.56%) Degree
2 14 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 14 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.40%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.72%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.36%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) ISACA
7 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (40.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.40%) GDPR
3 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.36%) QA
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.68%) FATCA
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (12.24%) Terraform
2 3 (2.04%) Control-M
Vendors
1 35 (23.81%) Google
2 25 (17.01%) Databricks
3 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.12%) Informatica
5 8 (5.44%) Adobe
6 7 (4.76%) IBM
7 4 (2.72%) SAP
7 4 (2.72%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.04%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.04%) BMC
8 3 (2.04%) Talend
9 2 (1.36%) Hotjar
9 2 (1.36%) Oracle
10 1 (0.68%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.68%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.68%) YouTube