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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 348 474
Rank change year-on-year +134 +126 -97
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 223 76 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.11% 0.49% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.26% 2.32% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 113 49 96
10th Percentile £36,650 £40,903 £30,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +4.42% -9.39%
75th Percentile £86,000 £70,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £101,875
UK median annual salary £70,932 £66,367 £68,937
% change year-on-year +6.88% -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 2,700 3,278 7,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.44% 21.24% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,098 2,198 6,315
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%

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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 19 June 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 19 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (6.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 13 (5.83%) Apache
4 12 (5.38%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.35%) SAS
7 2 (0.90%) CMS
Applications
1 53 (23.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 39 (17.49%) Workfront
2 2 (0.90%) HFM
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.46%) Azure
2 56 (25.11%) AWS
3 53 (23.77%) iPaaS
4 34 (15.25%) GCP
5 24 (10.76%) Power Platform
6 22 (9.87%) Google Analytics
7 13 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (5.38%) Snowflake
9 9 (4.04%) dbt
10 8 (3.59%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.59%) Serverless
11 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.69%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (2.69%) Dagster
11 6 (2.69%) Google Ads
12 5 (2.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (36.77%) Broadband
2 1 (0.45%) 4G
2 1 (0.45%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.31%) Tableau
2 17 (7.62%) Power BI
3 15 (6.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.28%) BigQuery
4 14 (6.28%) Data Lake
5 11 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (4.04%) Delta Lake
7 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
8 8 (3.59%) Apache Iceberg
8 8 (3.59%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.69%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (2.69%) MySQL
10 5 (2.24%) Data Vault
10 5 (2.24%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.79%) Looker
11 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Git
2 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.90%) MLflow
3 1 (0.45%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.45%) ERwin
3 1 (0.45%) Maven
3 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 78 (34.98%) Marketing
2 56 (25.11%) Social Skills
3 46 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (18.39%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.76%) Law
6 22 (9.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.62%) Finance
8 15 (6.73%) Retail
9 8 (3.59%) Automotive
10 6 (2.69%) Legal
11 5 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Banking
12 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Billing
13 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Games
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (29.60%) Architect
2 57 (25.56%) Data Architect
3 51 (22.87%) Senior
4 42 (18.83%) Product Owner
5 36 (16.14%) Lead
6 28 (12.56%) Data Engineer
7 24 (10.76%) Senior Architect
8 21 (9.42%) Senior Data Architect
9 18 (8.07%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (4.48%) SEO Specialist
11 9 (4.04%) Analyst
11 9 (4.04%) SEO Executive
12 7 (3.14%) Lead Data Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Consultant
13 6 (2.69%) Data Analyst
13 6 (2.69%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.69%) Senior Consultant
13 6 (2.69%) Technology Owner
14 5 (2.24%) Data Consultant
14 5 (2.24%) Governance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.62%) Kafka
1 17 (7.62%) PyTorch
2 16 (7.17%) TensorFlow
3 9 (4.04%) React
4 8 (3.59%) PySpark
5 6 (2.69%) CSS
5 6 (2.69%) HTML
6 5 (2.24%) .NET
6 5 (2.24%) ASP.NET
6 5 (2.24%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (2.24%) SPFx
7 4 (1.79%) JSON
7 4 (1.79%) XBRL
7 4 (1.79%) XML
8 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.90%) Node.js
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CDK
9 1 (0.45%) FFmpeg
9 1 (0.45%) SLSA
9 1 (0.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (28.25%) Product Ownership
2 62 (27.80%) Social Media
3 54 (24.22%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (24.22%) Over-the-Top Content
4 20 (8.97%) Algorithms
5 18 (8.07%) Cloud Native
5 18 (8.07%) Video\Live Streaming
6 12 (5.38%) Data Structures
7 10 (4.48%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.69%) Anti-Piracy
10 5 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.24%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.24%) Reference Data
11 4 (1.79%) Blog
11 4 (1.79%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (46.19%) Agile
2 96 (43.05%) Roadmaps
3 89 (39.91%) Data Modelling
4 81 (36.32%) Analytics
5 76 (34.08%) Decision-Making
6 73 (32.74%) Data Governance
7 71 (31.84%) Data Architecture
8 70 (31.39%) Personalization
9 69 (30.94%) Workflow
10 68 (30.49%) AI
10 68 (30.49%) Digital Marketing
11 64 (28.70%) Customer Experience
12 60 (26.91%) Metadata Management
13 59 (26.46%) CI/CD
14 55 (24.66%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 55 (24.66%) User Stories
15 53 (23.77%) Matrix Organization
15 53 (23.77%) Product Management
15 53 (23.77%) Product Requirements
15 53 (23.77%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 56 (25.11%) Python
2 41 (18.39%) SQL
3 14 (6.28%) Java
3 14 (6.28%) Scala
4 11 (4.93%) C#
5 8 (3.59%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.14%) C++
6 7 (3.14%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.69%) Bash
7 6 (2.69%) Bicep
8 5 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.90%) PHP
10 1 (0.45%) Groovy
10 1 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.87%) Degree
2 21 (9.42%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.69%) CIPD
6 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.79%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.45%) PhD
10 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (25.56%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.83%) GDPR
3 9 (4.04%) QA
4 3 (1.35%) IFRS
4 3 (1.35%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.35%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (7.17%) Terraform
2 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 57 (25.56%) Adobe
2 39 (17.49%) Google
3 28 (12.56%) Microsoft
4 26 (11.66%) Databricks
5 11 (4.93%) Oracle
6 9 (4.04%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (2.69%) SAP
8 5 (2.24%) Informatica
8 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.79%) Ahrefs
10 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.45%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.45%) IBM
11 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.45%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.45%) Workday
11 1 (0.45%) YouTube