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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 355 439
Rank change year-on-year +115 +84 -81
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 218 76 114
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.02% 0.46% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.32% 2.35% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 104 49 102
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,903 -
25th Percentile £59,322 £46,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +9.61% -8.77%
75th Percentile £82,188 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,750 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,367 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -1.68% +3.85%

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 2,977 3,234 6,481
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.90% 19.61% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,383 2,171 5,313
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,309 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,091 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.43% -6.40%

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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 17 July 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 16 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (5.05%) Apache Spark
4 10 (4.59%) Apache
5 6 (2.75%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.38%) SAS
7 2 (0.92%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (24.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (17.89%) Workfront
2 2 (0.92%) HFM
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.23%) Azure
2 53 (24.31%) iPaaS
3 41 (18.81%) AWS
4 22 (10.09%) GCP
4 22 (10.09%) Google Analytics
4 22 (10.09%) Power Platform
5 17 (7.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (6.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (6.88%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.13%) dbt
8 9 (4.13%) Google Ads
9 8 (3.67%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.21%) Serverless
11 6 (2.75%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (2.75%) Dagster
11 6 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.29%) GitHub
12 5 (2.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 82 (37.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) 4G
2 1 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.88%) Data Lake
1 15 (6.88%) Power BI
2 14 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (5.96%) Delta Lake
3 13 (5.96%) Tableau
4 12 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (5.05%) BigQuery
5 11 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (4.13%) Data Vault
7 8 (3.67%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.21%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.75%) MySQL
10 4 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.92%) Big Data
12 2 (0.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Git
2 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.92%) MLflow
3 1 (0.46%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.46%) ERwin
3 1 (0.46%) Maven
3 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 81 (37.16%) Marketing
2 57 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 48 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.60%) Public Sector
5 24 (11.01%) Law
6 22 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.80%) Finance
8 14 (6.42%) Retail
9 8 (3.67%) Automotive
10 7 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.75%) Legal
12 5 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.92%) Advertising
13 2 (0.92%) Billing
13 2 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Banking
14 1 (0.46%) Games
14 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
14 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (28.90%) Architect
2 55 (25.23%) Data Architect
3 45 (20.64%) Senior
4 42 (19.27%) Product Owner
5 33 (15.14%) Lead
6 25 (11.47%) Data Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) Senior Architect
8 18 (8.26%) Senior Data Architect
9 17 (7.80%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) SEO Specialist
11 11 (5.05%) SEO Executive
12 7 (3.21%) Analyst
13 6 (2.75%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.75%) Technology Owner
14 5 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
14 5 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.29%) Developer
15 4 (1.83%) Lead Developer
15 4 (1.83%) SharePoint Developer
15 4 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.80%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.34%) TensorFlow
3 13 (5.96%) Kafka
4 12 (5.50%) PySpark
4 12 (5.50%) React
5 9 (4.13%) CSS
5 9 (4.13%) HTML
6 8 (3.67%) .NET
7 5 (2.29%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.29%) ASP.NET
7 5 (2.29%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (2.29%) JSON
7 5 (2.29%) SPFx
8 4 (1.83%) XBRL
8 4 (1.83%) XML
9 2 (0.92%) Node.js
10 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
10 1 (0.46%) FFmpeg
10 1 (0.46%) SLSA
10 1 (0.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.65%) Product Ownership
2 62 (28.44%) Social Media
3 54 (24.77%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (24.77%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (10.55%) Algorithms
5 21 (9.63%) Cloud Native
6 18 (8.26%) Video\Live Streaming
7 10 (4.59%) Data Structures
8 9 (4.13%) Taxonomies
9 8 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.75%) Anti-Piracy
12 5 (2.29%) Driving Licence
12 5 (2.29%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.83%) Blog
14 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
15 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
15 2 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
15 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (44.95%) Roadmaps
2 95 (43.58%) Agile
3 83 (38.07%) Analytics
4 82 (37.61%) Data Modelling
5 80 (36.70%) Decision-Making
6 77 (35.32%) AI
7 72 (33.03%) Workflow
8 71 (32.57%) Digital Marketing
9 70 (32.11%) Personalization
10 66 (30.28%) Customer Experience
11 63 (28.90%) Data Architecture
12 58 (26.61%) Data Governance
13 56 (25.69%) Matrix Organization
14 55 (25.23%) CI/CD
14 55 (25.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 55 (25.23%) User Stories
15 53 (24.31%) Product Backlog
15 53 (24.31%) Product Management
15 53 (24.31%) Product Requirements
15 53 (24.31%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.23%) Python
2 39 (17.89%) SQL
3 18 (8.26%) Scala
4 14 (6.42%) Java
5 11 (5.05%) C#
6 10 (4.59%) Bicep
7 8 (3.67%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.21%) C++
8 7 (3.21%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.92%) Bash
10 2 (0.92%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.09%) Degree
2 14 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (6.42%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.13%) Azure Certification
4 9 (4.13%) CIPD
5 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.67%) SnowPro
6 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.46%) PhD
8 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (29.36%) Data Quality
2 18 (8.26%) GDPR
3 11 (5.05%) QA
4 3 (1.38%) IFRS
4 3 (1.38%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.38%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.63%) Terraform
2 3 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (24.77%) Adobe
2 33 (15.14%) Google
3 27 (12.39%) Databricks
4 26 (11.93%) Microsoft
5 11 (5.05%) Oracle
6 9 (4.13%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.75%) SAP
8 4 (1.83%) Ahrefs
9 3 (1.38%) Informatica
10 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.46%) Foundry
11 1 (0.46%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.46%) IBM
11 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.46%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.46%) Workday
11 1 (0.46%) YouTube