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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 329 410
Rank change year-on-year +86 +81 -122
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 243 95 79
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.98% 0.56% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.69% 3.56% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 153 59 57
10th Percentile £33,850 £40,903 -
25th Percentile £49,250 £54,180 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +26.13% -11.20%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £91,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £70,857 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +13.37% - -5.30%

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 3,158 2,667 4,835
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.69% 15.85% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 1,834 3,079
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,781 £39,450
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,438 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £139,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 3 October 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 11 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.47%) Apache
4 4 (1.65%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.82%) CMS
6 2 (0.82%) Confluence
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (8.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (8.23%) Workfront
2 6 (2.47%) Shopify
3 2 (0.82%) HFM
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 89 (36.63%) Azure
2 47 (19.34%) Power Platform
3 37 (15.23%) AWS
4 36 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 34 (13.99%) Microsoft Purview
6 33 (13.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (11.11%) Snowflake
8 26 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (10.70%) Google Analytics
9 22 (9.05%) GCP
10 20 (8.23%) iPaaS
11 19 (7.82%) Azure Databricks
12 16 (6.58%) Google Ads
13 13 (5.35%) GitHub
14 12 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (4.94%) Power Automate
15 10 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 10 (4.12%) PowerApps
16 9 (3.70%) Serverless
17 8 (3.29%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.99%) Broadband
2 6 (2.47%) SMS
3 1 (0.41%) 4G
3 1 (0.41%) 5G
3 1 (0.41%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.40%) Power BI
2 32 (13.17%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (9.47%) Delta Lake
4 19 (7.82%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.00%) MongoDB
6 16 (6.58%) Data Lake
6 16 (6.58%) Data Vault
7 14 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (5.76%) SQL Server
8 12 (4.94%) Star Schema
8 12 (4.94%) Tableau
9 9 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (3.70%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
9 9 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (3.29%) Semantic Layer
11 6 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (2.47%) MySQL
11 6 (2.47%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (1.65%) MLflow
3 3 (1.23%) JIRA
4 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.82%) Claude Code
4 2 (0.82%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.82%) ERwin
4 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.41%) GitLab
General
1 57 (23.46%) Marketing
2 52 (21.40%) Social Skills
3 48 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (18.11%) Finance
5 38 (15.64%) Public Sector
6 29 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (9.05%) Retail
8 21 (8.64%) Law
9 20 (8.23%) Legal
10 11 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.88%) Banking
12 5 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.06%) Police
13 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.82%) Advertising
14 2 (0.82%) Billing
14 2 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 90 (37.04%) Architect
2 82 (33.74%) Data Architect
3 72 (29.63%) Senior
4 29 (11.93%) Senior Architect
4 29 (11.93%) Senior Data Architect
5 28 (11.52%) Lead
6 27 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.00%) Product Owner
8 16 (6.58%) Analyst
9 14 (5.76%) SEO Executive
10 13 (5.35%) SEO Specialist
11 12 (4.94%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.29%) Consultant
14 7 (2.88%) Developer
14 7 (2.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
14 7 (2.88%) Senior SEO Executive
14 7 (2.88%) Senior SEO Specialist
15 6 (2.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 6 (2.47%) E-Commerce Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.76%) Terraform
2 24 (9.88%) PySpark
3 13 (5.35%) CSS
3 13 (5.35%) HTML
4 11 (4.53%) React
5 9 (3.70%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.29%) .NET
6 8 (3.29%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.47%) Kafka
8 5 (2.06%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.06%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.06%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (2.06%) SPFx
9 4 (1.65%) JSON
9 4 (1.65%) REST
10 3 (1.23%) XML
11 2 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
11 2 (0.82%) Node.js
11 2 (0.82%) Pandas
11 2 (0.82%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.93%) Product Ownership
2 35 (14.40%) Cloud Native
3 22 (9.05%) Social Media
4 21 (8.64%) Marketing Technology
4 21 (8.64%) Over-the-Top Content
5 16 (6.58%) Algorithms
5 16 (6.58%) Taxonomies
6 13 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (5.35%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (2.47%) Educational Technology
9 6 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.65%) Blog
11 4 (1.65%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.65%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (49.79%) Data Modelling
2 116 (47.74%) Analytics
3 106 (43.62%) AI
4 101 (41.56%) Data Architecture
5 89 (36.63%) Agile
6 87 (35.80%) Data Governance
7 80 (32.92%) CI/CD
8 77 (31.69%) Roadmaps
9 63 (25.93%) Data Strategy
9 63 (25.93%) Decision-Making
10 57 (23.46%) Metadata Management
11 54 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
12 51 (20.99%) Machine Learning
13 48 (19.75%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (19.34%) Digital Marketing
15 46 (18.93%) DevOps
16 43 (17.70%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (16.87%) Data Science
17 41 (16.87%) Logical Data Model
17 41 (16.87%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.57%) Python
2 66 (27.16%) SQL
3 20 (8.23%) Bicep
3 20 (8.23%) C#
3 20 (8.23%) Scala
4 11 (4.53%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.29%) Java
6 7 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.47%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.82%) PHP
9 2 (0.82%) R
9 2 (0.82%) SOQL
9 2 (0.82%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.41%) C++
10 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (17.28%) Degree
2 22 (9.05%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.23%) Azure Certification
4 18 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (6.58%) SnowPro
7 9 (3.70%) CIPD
8 4 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.41%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.41%) OCP
11 1 (0.41%) PhD
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (39.51%) Data Quality
2 46 (18.93%) GDPR
3 18 (7.41%) Accessibility
4 10 (4.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 10 (4.12%) QA
5 6 (2.47%) COPPA
6 3 (1.23%) IFRS
6 3 (1.23%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.23%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.82%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) PERC
8 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.82%) Ansible
2 2 (0.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 59 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.64%) Databricks
3 36 (14.81%) Google
4 21 (8.64%) Adobe
5 17 (7.00%) Informatica
6 10 (4.12%) Oracle
7 9 (3.70%) Talend
8 7 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.47%) Screaming Frog
10 5 (2.06%) Foundry
10 5 (2.06%) SAP
11 4 (1.65%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.65%) OneTrust
11 4 (1.65%) Palantir
11 4 (1.65%) YouTube
12 3 (1.23%) Ahrefs
12 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.41%) Automation Anywhere
13 1 (0.41%) Sparx
13 1 (0.41%) UiPath