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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 378 332
Rank change year-on-year +132 -46 +117
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 142 50 213
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.87% 0.33% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.63% 1.24% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 92 28 105
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £42,471
25th Percentile £61,156 £47,813 £52,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,367 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -8.46% +7.41%
75th Percentile £95,625 £81,563 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,822 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% -13.79% +10.95%

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 2,143 4,019 6,746
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.07% 26.15% 24.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,548 2,420 5,782
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 21 February 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 22 (15.49%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.04%) Apache
3 8 (5.63%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.82%) Confluence
5 3 (2.11%) CMS
5 3 (2.11%) SAS
6 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (35.21%) Azure
2 48 (33.80%) AWS
3 40 (28.17%) GCP
4 25 (17.61%) Snowflake
5 18 (12.68%) Amazon S3
6 17 (11.97%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.56%) dbt
7 15 (10.56%) GitHub
8 14 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (9.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (9.86%) Google Analytics
9 11 (7.75%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (7.04%) Cloud Composer
11 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (4.93%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (4.23%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (4.23%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (4.23%) Dagster
13 6 (4.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
1 28 (19.72%) Tableau
2 22 (15.49%) BigQuery
2 22 (15.49%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.97%) Power BI
4 16 (11.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (7.75%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (6.34%) Amazon QuickSight
6 9 (6.34%) Apache Iceberg
7 7 (4.93%) Data Vault
7 7 (4.93%) Looker
8 6 (4.23%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (4.23%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.52%) Delta Lake
9 5 (3.52%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.82%) DataStage
10 4 (2.82%) QlikView
10 4 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Git
2 4 (2.82%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.82%) ERwin
2 4 (2.82%) JIRA
2 4 (2.82%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) Maven
3 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (21.83%) Public Sector
4 30 (21.13%) Finance
5 17 (11.97%) Retail
6 14 (9.86%) Marketing
7 13 (9.15%) Law
8 10 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.63%) Automotive
10 6 (4.23%) Banking
10 6 (4.23%) Legal
11 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.82%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.41%) Electronics
13 2 (1.41%) Music Industry
13 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.70%) Advertising
14 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (28.87%) Architect
2 38 (26.76%) Senior
3 37 (26.06%) Data Architect
4 33 (23.24%) Data Engineer
5 25 (17.61%) Lead
6 15 (10.56%) Lead Data Engineer
6 15 (10.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Analyst
7 13 (9.15%) Senior Architect
8 10 (7.04%) Senior Data Architect
9 9 (6.34%) Data Manager
10 7 (4.93%) Governance Manager
11 6 (4.23%) Data Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Data Governance Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Data Governance Manager
11 6 (4.23%) Product Analyst
12 5 (3.52%) Data Consultant
12 5 (3.52%) Governance Consultant
12 5 (3.52%) Senior Consultant
12 5 (3.52%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.27%) Kafka
2 11 (7.75%) PySpark
3 8 (5.63%) PyTorch
3 8 (5.63%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.11%) HTML
4 3 (2.11%) JSON
5 2 (1.41%) CSS
6 1 (0.70%) .NET
6 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.70%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.70%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.70%) Pandas
6 1 (0.70%) React
6 1 (0.70%) SLSA
6 1 (0.70%) XML
6 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.15%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (9.15%) Reference Data
3 12 (8.45%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.45%) Data Structures
4 10 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.04%) Social Media
5 9 (6.34%) Management Information System
5 9 (6.34%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (6.34%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (4.23%) Anti-Piracy
7 4 (2.82%) Reinsurance
8 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.41%) Semantic Web
10 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Linked Data
10 1 (0.70%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (57.75%) Analytics
1 82 (57.75%) Data Governance
2 81 (57.04%) Data Modelling
3 76 (53.52%) Metadata Management
4 66 (46.48%) Data Architecture
5 51 (35.92%) DevOps
6 50 (35.21%) Data Pipeline
7 48 (33.80%) AI
8 47 (33.10%) CI/CD
9 44 (30.99%) Agile
10 43 (30.28%) ETL
11 41 (28.87%) Data Engineering
12 40 (28.17%) Business Intelligence
13 38 (26.76%) Data Management
14 36 (25.35%) Roadmaps
15 34 (23.94%) Coaching
16 33 (23.24%) Data Strategy
17 31 (21.83%) Data Analysis
18 30 (21.13%) Mentoring
18 30 (21.13%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.14%) Python
2 52 (36.62%) SQL
3 16 (11.27%) Scala
4 9 (6.34%) Bash
5 8 (5.63%) Java
5 8 (5.63%) T-SQL
6 6 (4.23%) C++
7 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.41%) R
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) Groovy
8 1 (0.70%) SHACL
8 1 (0.70%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.86%) Degree
2 12 (8.45%) SC Cleared
2 12 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.82%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.41%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) ISACA
6 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (40.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.52%) GDPR
3 4 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.41%) QA
5 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.70%) FATCA
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (11.27%) Terraform
2 3 (2.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 34 (23.94%) Google
2 23 (16.20%) Databricks
3 19 (13.38%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.63%) Informatica
5 7 (4.93%) IBM
6 6 (4.23%) Adobe
7 4 (2.82%) SAP
8 3 (2.11%) Ahrefs
8 3 (2.11%) BMC
8 3 (2.11%) Screaming Frog
8 3 (2.11%) Talend
9 2 (1.41%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.70%) Oracle
10 1 (0.70%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.70%) YouTube