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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 358 470
Rank change year-on-year +131 +112 -104
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 227 77 102
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.07% 0.47% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.57% 2.33% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 111 50 90
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,903 £29,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,313 £49,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% - -
75th Percentile £83,125 £70,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £80,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,782 £66,367 £68,937
% change year-on-year +6.65% -3.73% +6.06%

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 3,000 3,299 6,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.14% 20.03% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,389 2,210 5,653
10th Percentile £37,450 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,748 £46,858 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 10 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 (7.05%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (5.29%) Apache Spark
4 10 (4.41%) Apache
5 6 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.32%) SAS
7 2 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (23.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (17.18%) Workfront
2 2 (0.88%) HFM
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (29.07%) Azure
2 53 (23.35%) iPaaS
3 52 (22.91%) AWS
4 32 (14.10%) GCP
5 25 (11.01%) Power Platform
6 21 (9.25%) Google Analytics
7 17 (7.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (7.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (6.61%) Snowflake
10 9 (3.96%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.96%) dbt
11 8 (3.52%) Google Ads
11 8 (3.52%) Serverless
12 6 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.64%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (2.64%) Dagster
12 6 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 82 (36.12%) Broadband
2 1 (0.44%) 4G
2 1 (0.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) Power BI
2 17 (7.49%) Tableau
3 15 (6.61%) Data Lake
3 15 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.73%) Delta Lake
5 12 (5.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (4.85%) BigQuery
6 11 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.96%) Data Vault
8 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (3.08%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.64%) MySQL
11 5 (2.20%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Git
2 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.88%) MLflow
3 1 (0.44%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.44%) ERwin
3 1 (0.44%) Maven
3 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 80 (35.24%) Marketing
2 56 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 47 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (18.06%) Public Sector
5 23 (10.13%) Law
6 21 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (8.81%) Finance
8 14 (6.17%) Retail
9 8 (3.52%) Automotive
10 6 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.64%) Legal
11 5 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.88%) Advertising
12 2 (0.88%) Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Billing
13 1 (0.44%) Games
13 1 (0.44%) Publishing
13 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (32.16%) Architect
2 64 (28.19%) Data Architect
3 52 (22.91%) Senior
4 42 (18.50%) Product Owner
5 33 (14.54%) Lead
6 29 (12.78%) Senior Architect
7 26 (11.45%) Senior Data Architect
8 25 (11.01%) Data Engineer
9 17 (7.49%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (5.29%) SEO Specialist
11 10 (4.41%) SEO Executive
12 9 (3.96%) Analyst
13 6 (2.64%) Data Analyst
13 6 (2.64%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.64%) Technology Owner
14 5 (2.20%) AWS Data Engineer
14 5 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (2.20%) Developer
15 4 (1.76%) Engineering Manager
15 4 (1.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.49%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.05%) TensorFlow
3 14 (6.17%) Kafka
4 12 (5.29%) PySpark
4 12 (5.29%) React
5 8 (3.52%) .NET
5 8 (3.52%) CSS
5 8 (3.52%) HTML
6 5 (2.20%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.20%) ASP.NET
6 5 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (2.20%) JSON
6 5 (2.20%) SPFx
7 4 (1.76%) XBRL
7 4 (1.76%) XML
8 2 (0.88%) Node.js
9 1 (0.44%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.44%) FFmpeg
9 1 (0.44%) Ray
9 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (30.40%) Product Ownership
2 62 (27.31%) Social Media
3 54 (23.79%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (23.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (9.69%) Algorithms
4 22 (9.69%) Cloud Native
5 18 (7.93%) Video\Live Streaming
6 11 (4.85%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.41%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.52%) Taxonomies
9 7 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.64%) Anti-Piracy
11 5 (2.20%) Driving Licence
11 5 (2.20%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.76%) Blog
13 3 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.93%) Agile
2 101 (44.49%) Roadmaps
3 93 (40.97%) Data Modelling
4 84 (37.00%) Analytics
5 82 (36.12%) Decision-Making
6 78 (34.36%) AI
7 74 (32.60%) Data Architecture
8 72 (31.72%) Workflow
9 70 (30.84%) Digital Marketing
9 70 (30.84%) Personalization
10 69 (30.40%) Data Governance
11 65 (28.63%) Customer Experience
12 63 (27.75%) CI/CD
13 58 (25.55%) Data Strategy
14 57 (25.11%) Metadata Management
15 56 (24.67%) Matrix Organization
16 55 (24.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 55 (24.23%) User Stories
17 53 (23.35%) Product Backlog
17 53 (23.35%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 56 (24.67%) Python
2 41 (18.06%) SQL
3 18 (7.93%) Scala
4 14 (6.17%) Java
5 11 (4.85%) C#
6 10 (4.41%) Bicep
7 8 (3.52%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.08%) C++
8 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.32%) Bash
11 2 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (8.81%) Degree
2 14 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (5.29%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.96%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.96%) CIPD
6 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.52%) SnowPro
7 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PhD
9 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (28.63%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.05%) GDPR
3 12 (5.29%) QA
4 3 (1.32%) IFRS
4 3 (1.32%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.32%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (8.81%) Terraform
2 3 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (23.79%) Adobe
2 39 (17.18%) Google
3 34 (14.98%) Microsoft
4 28 (12.33%) Databricks
5 11 (4.85%) Oracle
6 9 (3.96%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.64%) SAP
8 5 (2.20%) Informatica
9 4 (1.76%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.44%) Foundry
11 1 (0.44%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.44%) IBM
11 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.44%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.44%) Workday
11 1 (0.44%) YouTube