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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 352 448
Rank change year-on-year +134 +96 -5
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 189 47 123
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.16% 1.42% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 104 33 111
10th Percentile £41,453 £40,903 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,211 £43,290 £49,420
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £55,565 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.65% -20.62% +1.89%
75th Percentile £85,250 £68,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,842 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.99% -7.14% +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 2,317 3,303 7,231
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.08% 24.99% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,722 2,422 6,232
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
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 18 April 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 25 (13.23%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 14 (7.41%) Apache
3 10 (5.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.59%) CMS
4 3 (1.59%) SAS
5 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (17.99%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (10.58%) Workfront
2 1 (0.53%) HFM
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.51%) Azure
2 48 (25.40%) AWS
3 37 (19.58%) GCP
4 34 (17.99%) iPaaS
5 21 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 21 (11.11%) Google Analytics
6 19 (10.05%) Snowflake
7 14 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (7.41%) dbt
8 13 (6.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (6.88%) Power Platform
9 12 (6.35%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (6.35%) GitHub
10 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (4.76%) Serverless
11 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (3.17%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (3.17%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (3.17%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 51 (26.98%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.64%) Tableau
2 19 (10.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 18 (9.52%) BigQuery
4 17 (8.99%) Data Lake
5 15 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.29%) Power BI
8 9 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (3.70%) Looker
9 7 (3.70%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.17%) Delta Lake
11 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.65%) SQL Server
12 4 (2.12%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.59%) IBM InfoSphere
13 3 (1.59%) Parquet
13 3 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.82%) Git
2 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) Maven
3 1 (0.53%) MLflow
3 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (31.22%) Marketing
2 38 (20.11%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (16.93%) Public Sector
5 25 (13.23%) Finance
6 18 (9.52%) Law
7 13 (6.88%) Retail
8 12 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.23%) Automotive
10 5 (2.65%) Legal
10 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.06%) Banking
13 2 (1.06%) Electronics
13 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.53%) Advertising
14 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (23.28%) Senior
2 37 (19.58%) Architect
3 36 (19.05%) Data Engineer
4 32 (16.93%) Lead
5 28 (14.81%) Data Architect
6 26 (13.76%) Product Owner
7 17 (8.99%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (6.88%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (6.88%) Senior Architect
9 11 (5.82%) Analyst
10 10 (5.29%) Senior Data Architect
11 9 (4.76%) SEO Specialist
12 8 (4.23%) Data Analyst
12 8 (4.23%) Data Manager
12 8 (4.23%) Lead Architect
13 7 (3.70%) SEO Executive
14 6 (3.17%) Consultant
14 6 (3.17%) Governance Consultant
14 6 (3.17%) Product Analyst
14 6 (3.17%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.52%) Kafka
2 13 (6.88%) PySpark
3 8 (4.23%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.23%) TensorFlow
4 7 (3.70%) HTML
5 6 (3.17%) CSS
6 5 (2.65%) JSON
6 5 (2.65%) XML
7 4 (2.12%) React
7 4 (2.12%) XBRL
8 3 (1.59%) .NET
9 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.06%) SPFx
10 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
10 1 (0.53%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.53%) JSON-LD
10 1 (0.53%) Node.js
10 1 (0.53%) SLSA
10 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.81%) Social Media
2 40 (21.16%) Product Ownership
3 34 (17.99%) Marketing Technology
3 34 (17.99%) Over-the-Top Content
4 20 (10.58%) Algorithms
5 18 (9.52%) Cloud Native
6 12 (6.35%) Data Structures
7 10 (5.29%) Public Cloud
7 10 (5.29%) Reference Data
7 10 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (3.17%) Anti-Piracy
10 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.65%) Management Information System
11 4 (2.12%) Blog
11 4 (2.12%) Driving Licence
11 4 (2.12%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.06%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.09%) Analytics
2 81 (42.86%) Agile
3 77 (40.74%) Data Modelling
4 76 (40.21%) Data Governance
5 72 (38.10%) Metadata Management
6 62 (32.80%) Decision-Making
6 62 (32.80%) Roadmaps
7 61 (32.28%) Data Architecture
8 55 (29.10%) AI
9 50 (26.46%) Data Pipeline
10 49 (25.93%) CI/CD
11 48 (25.40%) DevOps
11 48 (25.40%) Workflow
12 47 (24.87%) Digital Marketing
13 45 (23.81%) Customer Experience
14 43 (22.75%) Data Engineering
15 42 (22.22%) Personalization
16 40 (21.16%) ETL
17 37 (19.58%) User Stories
18 36 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 57 (30.16%) Python
2 53 (28.04%) SQL
3 15 (7.94%) Scala
4 9 (4.76%) Bash
5 8 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 7 (3.70%) Java
7 6 (3.17%) C++
8 5 (2.65%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.12%) C#
9 4 (2.12%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.06%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.06%) R
11 1 (0.53%) Groovy
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) SHACL
11 1 (0.53%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.99%) Degree
3 16 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.06%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) ISACA
7 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (30.16%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.82%) GDPR
3 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.59%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) IFRS
5 2 (1.06%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.06%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (8.47%) Terraform
2 3 (1.59%) Control-M
3 1 (0.53%) Ansible
3 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (21.69%) Google
2 40 (21.16%) Adobe
3 25 (13.23%) Databricks
4 24 (12.70%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.29%) Screaming Frog
6 6 (3.17%) Ahrefs
6 6 (3.17%) Informatica
7 4 (2.12%) Oracle
7 4 (2.12%) SAP
8 3 (1.59%) BMC
8 3 (1.59%) IBM
8 3 (1.59%) Talend
9 2 (1.06%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.53%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.53%) YouTube