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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 354 457
Rank change year-on-year +147 +103 -37
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 200 71 120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.08% 0.49% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.29% 2.07% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 105 45 104
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £33,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,290 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £80,750 £96,539
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 2,413 3,429 7,282
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.02% 23.44% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,836 2,308 6,206
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,217 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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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 15 May 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 23 (11.50%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (8.00%) Apache
3 14 (7.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 12 (6.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.50%) CMS
5 3 (1.50%) SAS
5 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (21.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 29 (14.50%) Workfront
2 2 (1.00%) HFM
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (26.00%) AWS
2 51 (25.50%) Azure
3 43 (21.50%) iPaaS
4 37 (18.50%) GCP
5 22 (11.00%) Google Analytics
6 20 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 11 (5.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (5.50%) Snowflake
9 10 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (5.00%) dbt
10 9 (4.50%) GitHub
10 9 (4.50%) Serverless
11 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.00%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.00%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (3.00%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 65 (32.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) 4G
2 1 (0.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.00%) Tableau
2 18 (9.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (8.50%) BigQuery
4 16 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 14 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 10 (5.00%) Power BI
8 9 (4.50%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (3.50%) Delta Lake
9 7 (3.50%) Looker
9 7 (3.50%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.00%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.50%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.00%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.50%) Big Data
13 3 (1.50%) DB2
13 3 (1.50%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Git
2 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.00%) MLflow
3 1 (0.50%) Maven
3 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (34.50%) Marketing
2 44 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 40 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 33 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.00%) Finance
6 21 (10.50%) Law
7 15 (7.50%) Retail
8 14 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.00%) Automotive
10 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.50%) Legal
12 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.00%) Advertising
13 2 (1.00%) Electronics
14 1 (0.50%) Billing
14 1 (0.50%) Games
14 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (26.00%) Senior
2 45 (22.50%) Architect
3 37 (18.50%) Data Engineer
4 36 (18.00%) Data Architect
5 34 (17.00%) Lead
5 34 (17.00%) Product Owner
6 20 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (9.00%) Senior Architect
8 15 (7.50%) Senior Data Architect
9 11 (5.50%) Analyst
9 11 (5.50%) Lead Data Engineer
10 9 (4.50%) SEO Executive
10 9 (4.50%) SEO Specialist
11 8 (4.00%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.50%) Consultant
12 7 (3.50%) Lead Architect
12 7 (3.50%) Senior Consultant
13 6 (3.00%) Data Consultant
13 6 (3.00%) Governance Consultant
13 6 (3.00%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.50%) Kafka
2 11 (5.50%) PySpark
3 8 (4.00%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.00%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.00%) React
5 5 (2.50%) HTML
5 5 (2.50%) JSON
5 5 (2.50%) XML
6 4 (2.00%) .NET
6 4 (2.00%) CSS
6 4 (2.00%) XBRL
7 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.50%) SPFx
8 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.00%) Node.js
9 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.50%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.50%) SLSA
9 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (26.50%) Social Media
2 51 (25.50%) Product Ownership
3 44 (22.00%) Marketing Technology
3 44 (22.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 19 (9.50%) Algorithms
5 17 (8.50%) Cloud Native
6 12 (6.00%) Data Structures
7 10 (5.00%) Public Cloud
7 10 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 6 (3.00%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (3.00%) Reference Data
9 5 (2.50%) Blog
9 5 (2.50%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.00%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (45.50%) Agile
2 82 (41.00%) Analytics
3 80 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 68 (34.00%) Data Governance
4 68 (34.00%) Roadmaps
5 64 (32.00%) Decision-Making
5 64 (32.00%) Metadata Management
6 59 (29.50%) Data Architecture
7 58 (29.00%) Digital Marketing
8 57 (28.50%) Workflow
9 54 (27.00%) Customer Experience
10 52 (26.00%) CI/CD
10 52 (26.00%) Personalization
11 51 (25.50%) AI
12 49 (24.50%) Data Pipeline
13 45 (22.50%) DevOps
13 45 (22.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 45 (22.50%) User Stories
14 44 (22.00%) Data Engineering
15 43 (21.50%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 59 (29.50%) Python
2 49 (24.50%) SQL
3 17 (8.50%) Scala
4 13 (6.50%) Java
5 10 (5.00%) C#
6 9 (4.50%) Bash
7 6 (3.00%) C++
7 6 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.50%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.50%) Bicep
9 3 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (1.00%) R
11 1 (0.50%) Groovy
11 1 (0.50%) SHACL
11 1 (0.50%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (10.50%) Degree
2 19 (9.50%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.50%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.50%) PhD
6 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (26.50%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.50%) GDPR
3 9 (4.50%) QA
4 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.50%) IFRS
4 3 (1.50%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.50%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.50%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (8.50%) Terraform
2 3 (1.50%) Control-M
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (24.50%) Adobe
2 41 (20.50%) Google
3 23 (11.50%) Databricks
4 22 (11.00%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.00%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (3.00%) Oracle
6 6 (3.00%) SAP
7 5 (2.50%) Ahrefs
8 4 (2.00%) IBM
8 4 (2.00%) Informatica
9 3 (1.50%) BMC
9 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.50%) Talend
10 2 (1.00%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.50%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.50%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.50%) YouTube