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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 374 356
Rank change year-on-year +123 -18 +107
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 145 43 201
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 0.29% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.87% 1.10% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 93 25 103
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,875 £47,813 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.22% -14.29% +1.89%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,493 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +18.22% -17.24% +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 2,111 3,902 6,802
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.84% 26.36% 23.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,526 2,382 5,834
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,261 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £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 1 March 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 23 (15.86%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.59%) Apache
3 8 (5.52%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.76%) Confluence
5 3 (2.07%) CMS
5 3 (2.07%) SAS
6 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Shopify
1 1 (0.69%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.48%) Azure
2 48 (33.10%) AWS
3 39 (26.90%) GCP
4 25 (17.24%) Snowflake
5 19 (13.10%) Amazon S3
6 16 (11.03%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.34%) dbt
7 15 (10.34%) GitHub
8 14 (9.66%) Google Analytics
9 13 (8.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (8.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (7.59%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (6.90%) Cloud Composer
12 9 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (4.83%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (4.83%) Serverless
15 6 (4.14%) Adobe Analytics
15 6 (4.14%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (4.14%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.72%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.31%) Data Warehouse
1 28 (19.31%) Tableau
2 22 (15.17%) BigQuery
3 21 (14.48%) Data Lake
4 17 (11.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (11.03%) Power BI
6 11 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon QuickSight
7 9 (6.21%) Apache Iceberg
8 7 (4.83%) Looker
8 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.14%) Data Vault
9 6 (4.14%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 5 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.76%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.76%) QlikView
11 4 (2.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (7.59%) Git
2 4 (2.76%) ER Studio
2 4 (2.76%) ERwin
2 4 (2.76%) JIRA
2 4 (2.76%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.69%) Maven
3 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.76%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (22.07%) Public Sector
4 29 (20.00%) Finance
5 17 (11.72%) Retail
6 15 (10.34%) Marketing
7 13 (8.97%) Law
8 10 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (5.52%) Automotive
10 6 (4.14%) Banking
10 6 (4.14%) Legal
11 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (2.76%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.38%) Electronics
13 2 (1.38%) Music Industry
13 2 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.69%) Advertising
14 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (28.28%) Architect
2 40 (27.59%) Senior
3 36 (24.83%) Data Architect
4 34 (23.45%) Data Engineer
5 24 (16.55%) Lead
6 16 (11.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (9.66%) Analyst
7 14 (9.66%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (8.97%) Senior Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Data Manager
9 10 (6.90%) Senior Data Architect
10 7 (4.83%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.83%) Governance Manager
11 6 (4.14%) Data Governance Analyst
11 6 (4.14%) Data Governance Manager
11 6 (4.14%) Product Analyst
12 5 (3.45%) Data Consultant
12 5 (3.45%) Governance Consultant
12 5 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
12 5 (3.45%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.03%) Kafka
2 11 (7.59%) PySpark
3 8 (5.52%) PyTorch
3 8 (5.52%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.07%) HTML
4 3 (2.07%) JSON
5 2 (1.38%) CSS
6 1 (0.69%) .NET
6 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.69%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.69%) JSON-LD
6 1 (0.69%) Pandas
6 1 (0.69%) React
6 1 (0.69%) SLSA
6 1 (0.69%) XML
6 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Cloud Native
1 14 (9.66%) Reference Data
2 13 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (8.28%) Algorithms
3 12 (8.28%) Data Structures
4 11 (7.59%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.59%) Social Media
5 10 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 10 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (6.21%) Management Information System
6 9 (6.21%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (4.14%) Anti-Piracy
8 4 (2.76%) Reinsurance
9 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.38%) Semantic Web
11 1 (0.69%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.69%) Linked Data
11 1 (0.69%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.69%) Over-the-Top Content
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (58.62%) Data Governance
2 81 (55.86%) Analytics
2 81 (55.86%) Data Modelling
3 79 (54.48%) Metadata Management
4 67 (46.21%) Data Architecture
5 51 (35.17%) Data Pipeline
6 50 (34.48%) DevOps
7 47 (32.41%) AI
7 47 (32.41%) CI/CD
8 46 (31.72%) Agile
9 43 (29.66%) ETL
10 42 (28.97%) Data Engineering
11 40 (27.59%) Data Management
12 39 (26.90%) Business Intelligence
13 36 (24.83%) Roadmaps
14 34 (23.45%) Coaching
14 34 (23.45%) Data Strategy
15 32 (22.07%) Data Analysis
16 31 (21.38%) Use Case
17 29 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (39.31%) Python
2 52 (35.86%) SQL
3 15 (10.34%) Scala
4 9 (6.21%) Bash
5 8 (5.52%) T-SQL
6 7 (4.83%) Java
7 6 (4.14%) C++
8 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.38%) R
9 1 (0.69%) Bicep
9 1 (0.69%) C#
9 1 (0.69%) Groovy
9 1 (0.69%) SHACL
9 1 (0.69%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.03%) Degree
2 13 (8.97%) SC Cleared
2 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.76%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.76%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.38%) SnowPro
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) ISACA
7 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (41.38%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.45%) GDPR
3 4 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) QA
5 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.69%) FATCA
5 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (11.72%) Terraform
2 3 (2.07%) Control-M
Vendors
1 34 (23.45%) Google
2 24 (16.55%) Databricks
3 19 (13.10%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.21%) Informatica
5 7 (4.83%) Adobe
5 7 (4.83%) IBM
6 4 (2.76%) SAP
7 3 (2.07%) Ahrefs
7 3 (2.07%) BMC
7 3 (2.07%) Screaming Frog
7 3 (2.07%) Talend
8 2 (1.38%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.38%) Oracle
9 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.69%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.69%) YouTube