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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 361 274
Rank change year-on-year +86 -87 +161
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 101 71 215
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 0.43% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.77% 1.71% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 71 47 97
10th Percentile £42,500 - £49,750
25th Percentile £52,400 £37,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £45,441 £72,085
Median % change year-on-year +76.05% -36.96% +6.79%
75th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £90,822 £97,298
UK median annual salary £67,500 £59,123 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.17% -18.45% +7.41%

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 2,118 4,157 5,142
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.96% 24.98% 24.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 2,498 4,160
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,250 £93,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -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 7 January 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 9 (8.91%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.94%) CMS
3 5 (4.95%) Apache
4 4 (3.96%) Confluence
5 2 (1.98%) Drupal
5 2 (1.98%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.98%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.98%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.64%) Azure
2 25 (24.75%) AWS
3 21 (20.79%) Snowflake
4 18 (17.82%) Power Platform
5 17 (16.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (15.84%) GCP
7 15 (14.85%) Amazon S3
8 14 (13.86%) GitHub
9 11 (10.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (10.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (6.93%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (6.93%) dbt
11 7 (6.93%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (6.93%) Google Analytics
12 6 (5.94%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (4.95%) Alation
13 5 (4.95%) Serverless
14 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (3.96%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.75%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (20.79%) Data Lake
3 20 (19.80%) Tableau
4 17 (16.83%) Power BI
5 10 (9.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (9.90%) BigQuery
5 10 (9.90%) Data Vault
6 7 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (5.94%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (4.95%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (4.95%) Apache Iceberg
8 5 (4.95%) Looker
8 5 (4.95%) Metadata Repository
8 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.96%) DataStage
9 4 (3.96%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.96%) QlikView
9 4 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.97%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Git
2 8 (7.92%) JIRA
3 6 (5.94%) ER Studio
4 4 (3.96%) ERwin
4 4 (3.96%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.98%) Grunt
5 2 (1.98%) gulp
5 2 (1.98%) webpack
General
1 34 (33.66%) Finance
2 21 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.81%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.91%) Banking
4 9 (8.91%) Marketing
5 8 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.94%) Law
6 6 (5.94%) Legal
6 6 (5.94%) Retail
7 5 (4.95%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.96%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.97%) Electronics
9 3 (2.97%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.98%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.99%) Games
11 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (24.75%) Data Engineer
2 23 (22.77%) Architect
2 23 (22.77%) Data Architect
3 18 (17.82%) Senior
4 15 (14.85%) Lead
5 10 (9.90%) Analyst
5 10 (9.90%) Lead Data Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.94%) Governance Manager
9 5 (4.95%) Data Governance Analyst
9 5 (4.95%) Data Governance Manager
9 5 (4.95%) Developer
10 4 (3.96%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.96%) Consultant
10 4 (3.96%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.96%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.96%) Technical Business Analyst
10 4 (3.96%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.90%) PySpark
2 5 (4.95%) HTML
2 5 (4.95%) Kafka
3 4 (3.96%) CSS
4 3 (2.97%) JSON
5 2 (1.98%) CSS3
5 2 (1.98%) HTML5
5 2 (1.98%) Node.js
5 2 (1.98%) Pandas
5 2 (1.98%) Redux
5 2 (1.98%) RESTful
5 2 (1.98%) Sass
5 2 (1.98%) XML
6 1 (0.99%) .NET
6 1 (0.99%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.99%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.99%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) Reference Data
2 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
3 12 (11.88%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (10.89%) Management Information System
5 7 (6.93%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.93%) Data Structures
6 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.96%) Blog
8 4 (3.96%) Reinsurance
8 4 (3.96%) Social Media
9 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.97%) Semantic Web
10 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.98%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
11 1 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.99%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (57.43%) Analytics
2 55 (54.46%) Data Governance
3 51 (50.50%) Metadata Management
4 50 (49.50%) Data Modelling
5 43 (42.57%) Data Architecture
6 36 (35.64%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (35.64%) DevOps
7 33 (32.67%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (28.71%) ETL
9 28 (27.72%) Agile
10 26 (25.74%) AI
10 26 (25.74%) CI/CD
10 26 (25.74%) Data Engineering
10 26 (25.74%) Data Management
11 23 (22.77%) Roadmaps
12 22 (21.78%) Decision-Making
13 21 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (18.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (18.81%) Use Case
15 18 (17.82%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (36.63%) SQL
2 36 (35.64%) Python
3 12 (11.88%) Scala
4 8 (7.92%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.95%) Bash
5 5 (4.95%) Java
6 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.99%) Bicep
7 1 (0.99%) C#
7 1 (0.99%) R
7 1 (0.99%) SHACL
7 1 (0.99%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) SC Cleared
1 15 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.88%) Degree
3 7 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.96%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.96%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.98%) SnowPro
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) ISACA
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (47.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.98%) QA
5 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.99%) FATCA
5 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (12.87%) Terraform
2 3 (2.97%) Control-M
Vendors
1 19 (18.81%) Databricks
1 19 (18.81%) Google
2 10 (9.90%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.93%) IBM
4 6 (5.94%) Informatica
5 4 (3.96%) Adobe
5 4 (3.96%) SAP
6 3 (2.97%) Ahrefs
6 3 (2.97%) BMC
6 3 (2.97%) Screaming Frog
6 3 (2.97%) Talend
7 2 (1.98%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.99%) Oracle
8 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow