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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 381 263
Rank change year-on-year +98 -118 +211
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 86 71 231
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.56% 0.40% 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.91% 1.62% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 57 48 110
10th Percentile £42,500 - £49,855
25th Percentile £59,125 £37,250 £56,013
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £47,460 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.30% -32.20% +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £73,213 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £90,822 £97,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% +6.06%

All Database and 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 2,201 4,370 4,936
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.45% 24.51% 24.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 2,713 3,944
10th Percentile £35,854 £39,800 £39,654
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% +15.51% -2.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £93,525
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 14 December 2025.

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 6 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (6.98%) CMS
2 4 (4.65%) Confluence
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) Drupal
3 2 (2.33%) EPiServer
3 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) Umbraco
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.33%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.02%) Azure
2 21 (24.42%) AWS
3 20 (23.26%) Snowflake
4 18 (20.93%) Power Platform
5 17 (19.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (16.28%) GCP
7 13 (15.12%) GitHub
8 11 (12.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (9.30%) Amazon S3
11 7 (8.14%) dbt
12 6 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (5.81%) Alation
13 5 (5.81%) Google Analytics
13 5 (5.81%) Serverless
14 4 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (4.65%) Cloud Composer
15 3 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (24.42%) Data Lake
3 17 (19.77%) Power BI
4 15 (17.44%) Tableau
5 10 (11.63%) Data Vault
6 8 (9.30%) BigQuery
7 7 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (6.98%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (5.81%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (4.65%) DataStage
10 4 (4.65%) QlikView
10 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.49%) Looker
12 2 (2.33%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
12 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (9.30%) JIRA
2 6 (6.98%) ER Studio
2 6 (6.98%) Git
3 4 (4.65%) ERwin
3 4 (4.65%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (2.33%) Grunt
4 2 (2.33%) gulp
4 2 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 33 (38.37%) Finance
2 22 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 21 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.47%) Banking
5 9 (10.47%) Marketing
6 7 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.98%) Legal
7 6 (6.98%) Retail
8 5 (5.81%) Law
8 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
9 4 (4.65%) Retail Banking
10 3 (3.49%) Electronics
10 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.33%) Music Industry
11 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.16%) Back Office
12 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.16%) Games
12 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (24.42%) Architect
1 21 (24.42%) Data Architect
2 19 (22.09%) Data Engineer
3 13 (15.12%) Senior
4 12 (13.95%) Lead
5 8 (9.30%) Analyst
6 7 (8.14%) Data Manager
6 7 (8.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Governance Manager
8 5 (5.81%) Data Governance Analyst
8 5 (5.81%) Data Governance Manager
8 5 (5.81%) Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) GCP Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.65%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) PySpark
2 5 (5.81%) HTML
3 4 (4.65%) CSS
4 3 (3.49%) JSON
5 2 (2.33%) .NET
5 2 (2.33%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.33%) CSS3
5 2 (2.33%) HTML5
5 2 (2.33%) Kafka
5 2 (2.33%) Node.js
5 2 (2.33%) Pandas
5 2 (2.33%) Redux
5 2 (2.33%) RESTful
5 2 (2.33%) Sass
5 2 (2.33%) XML
6 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.16%) JSON-LD
6 1 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Reference Data
2 13 (15.12%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.79%) Management Information System
4 10 (11.63%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (8.14%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.98%) Product Ownership
7 5 (5.81%) Data Structures
8 4 (4.65%) Blog
8 4 (4.65%) Reinsurance
8 4 (4.65%) Social Media
9 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (3.49%) Semantic Web
10 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (2.33%) Graphic Design
10 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
11 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (1.16%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) Analytics
2 46 (53.49%) Data Governance
3 43 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 42 (48.84%) Metadata Management
5 37 (43.02%) Data Architecture
6 29 (33.72%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (33.72%) DevOps
7 27 (31.40%) Data Pipeline
8 26 (30.23%) Data Management
9 23 (26.74%) AI
9 23 (26.74%) CI/CD
9 23 (26.74%) ETL
10 22 (25.58%) Agile
11 21 (24.42%) Roadmaps
12 19 (22.09%) Data Engineering
12 19 (22.09%) Decision-Making
13 18 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (19.77%) Data Strategy
14 17 (19.77%) Migration
14 17 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (37.21%) SQL
2 29 (33.72%) Python
3 9 (10.47%) Scala
4 8 (9.30%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.81%) Java
6 4 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.33%) Bash
7 2 (2.33%) Bicep
7 2 (2.33%) C#
8 1 (1.16%) R
8 1 (1.16%) SHACL
8 1 (1.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Degree
2 9 (10.47%) SC Cleared
2 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.65%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.65%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.33%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.16%) ISACA
6 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (46.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.14%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.81%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) QA
5 1 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.16%) FATCA
5 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.63%) Terraform
2 1 (1.16%) Control-M
Vendors
1 19 (22.09%) Databricks
2 17 (19.77%) Google
3 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.98%) Informatica
5 5 (5.81%) IBM
6 4 (4.65%) SAP
7 3 (3.49%) Ahrefs
7 3 (3.49%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (2.33%) Adobe
8 2 (2.33%) Hotjar
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle
8 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.16%) BMC
9 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.16%) Talend