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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 345 384
Rank change year-on-year +127 +39 +57
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 177 43 187
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.04% 0.33% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.81% 1.26% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 97 28 113
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,678 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,110 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £55,283 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.31% -23.75% +5.53%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,273 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,625 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year +13.49% -12.28% +9.62%

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 2,266 3,414 7,208
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.32% 26.48% 22.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,674 2,446 6,163
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,125 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £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 £80,000 £90,822 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -10.18%

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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 6 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 (14.12%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 12 (6.78%) Apache
4 8 (4.52%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.69%) CMS
5 3 (1.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (18.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (10.73%) Workfront
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.12%) AWS
1 48 (27.12%) Azure
2 38 (21.47%) GCP
3 33 (18.64%) iPaaS
4 22 (12.43%) Snowflake
5 21 (11.86%) Amazon S3
6 16 (9.04%) Google Analytics
7 14 (7.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (7.91%) dbt
7 14 (7.91%) GitHub
8 13 (7.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (6.78%) Power Platform
10 9 (5.08%) Cloud Composer
10 9 (5.08%) Serverless
11 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (3.39%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 49 (27.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.12%) Tableau
2 21 (11.86%) BigQuery
3 20 (11.30%) Data Lake
4 19 (10.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.78%) Power BI
7 11 (6.21%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (5.08%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (5.08%) Apache Iceberg
9 7 (3.95%) Looker
9 7 (3.95%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.82%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.82%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.26%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.69%) DataStage
12 3 (1.69%) DB2
12 3 (1.69%) QlikView
12 3 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (6.21%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) ER Studio
2 3 (1.69%) ERwin
2 3 (1.69%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Maven
3 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (29.38%) Marketing
2 34 (19.21%) Social Skills
3 31 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.95%) Public Sector
5 24 (13.56%) Finance
6 17 (9.60%) Law
7 16 (9.04%) Retail
8 11 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.52%) Automotive
10 5 (2.82%) Banking
10 5 (2.82%) Legal
10 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.13%) Electronics
13 2 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.56%) Advertising
14 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 43 (24.29%) Senior
2 37 (20.90%) Architect
3 35 (19.77%) Data Engineer
4 30 (16.95%) Data Architect
5 28 (15.82%) Lead
6 25 (14.12%) Product Owner
7 17 (9.60%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (7.34%) Lead Data Engineer
8 13 (7.34%) Senior Architect
9 11 (6.21%) Analyst
10 10 (5.65%) Senior Data Architect
11 8 (4.52%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.52%) Data Manager
12 6 (3.39%) Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Data Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Governance Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) Lead Architect
12 6 (3.39%) Product Analyst
12 6 (3.39%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (3.39%) SEO Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.60%) Kafka
2 12 (6.78%) PySpark
3 8 (4.52%) PyTorch
3 8 (4.52%) TensorFlow
4 4 (2.26%) HTML
4 4 (2.26%) JSON
5 3 (1.69%) CSS
5 3 (1.69%) XML
6 2 (1.13%) XBRL
7 1 (0.56%) .NET
7 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.56%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.56%) JSON-LD
7 1 (0.56%) Pandas
7 1 (0.56%) React
7 1 (0.56%) SLSA
7 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.29%) Social Media
2 37 (20.90%) Product Ownership
3 33 (18.64%) Marketing Technology
3 33 (18.64%) Over-the-Top Content
4 17 (9.60%) Cloud Native
5 16 (9.04%) Algorithms
6 13 (7.34%) Data Structures
7 10 (5.65%) Public Cloud
7 10 (5.65%) Reference Data
7 10 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (5.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 8 (4.52%) Management Information System
10 6 (3.39%) Anti-Piracy
11 5 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.69%) Reinsurance
13 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.13%) Blog
13 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (48.02%) Analytics
2 78 (44.07%) Data Governance
3 77 (43.50%) Data Modelling
4 76 (42.94%) Agile
5 75 (42.37%) Metadata Management
6 63 (35.59%) Data Architecture
6 63 (35.59%) Decision-Making
6 63 (35.59%) Roadmaps
7 51 (28.81%) AI
7 51 (28.81%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (26.55%) CI/CD
9 45 (25.42%) DevOps
10 44 (24.86%) Customer Experience
11 42 (23.73%) Data Engineering
11 42 (23.73%) Workflow
12 41 (23.16%) ETL
12 41 (23.16%) Personalization
13 40 (22.60%) Digital Marketing
14 36 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
15 35 (19.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.07%) Python
2 51 (28.81%) SQL
3 14 (7.91%) Scala
4 9 (5.08%) Bash
5 8 (4.52%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.39%) C++
6 6 (3.39%) Java
7 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.13%) R
8 1 (0.56%) Bicep
8 1 (0.56%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) Groovy
8 1 (0.56%) SHACL
8 1 (0.56%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.17%) Degree
2 17 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 16 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.13%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) ISACA
8 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (33.90%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.95%) GDPR
3 4 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Terraform
2 3 (1.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 39 (22.03%) Adobe
2 38 (21.47%) Google
3 27 (15.25%) Databricks
4 20 (11.30%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.08%) Informatica
6 7 (3.95%) Screaming Frog
7 6 (3.39%) IBM
8 4 (2.26%) Ahrefs
8 4 (2.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.69%) BMC
9 3 (1.69%) Oracle
9 3 (1.69%) Talend
10 2 (1.13%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.56%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.56%) YouTube