Metadata Jobs

Metadata
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 514 513
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +88
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 420 506 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.53% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.28% 2.49% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 231 303 537
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,502
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,937 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,250 £104,850
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.74% +0.42% +15.94%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,423 20,288 47,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.50% 21.40% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,549 12,963 20,973
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata.

Salary trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 314 £68,490 +1.47% 103
UK excluding London -21 237 £62,500 +3.74% 51
London +27 146 £80,000 +14.29% 62
Work from Home -71 112 £63,750 -7.21% 54
Scotland -12 70 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Midlands +15 62 £55,000 - 9
West Midlands +17 58 £57,500 - 8
North of England +47 51 £70,000 +7.69% 12
South East -36 37 £85,000 +1.49% 14
North West +8 31 £100,000 +92.31% 9
Yorkshire +55 13 £60,000 -19.46% 2
South West -61 13 £68,937 +14.42% 2
North East -11 7 £42,500 +7.66% 1
East Midlands -16 4 £50,000 +0.54% 1
East of England -17 3 £31,000 -43.64% 6
Wales 0 1 £47,500 -15.75% 2

Metadata
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.10%) SAS
3 11 (2.62%) Confluence
4 10 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.14%) Apache
5 9 (2.14%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.95%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.48%) CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.24%) Documentum
8 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.95%) Trello
4 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) HFM
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 131 (31.19%) Azure
2 65 (15.48%) AWS
3 58 (13.81%) Power Platform
4 43 (10.24%) GCP
5 26 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (6.19%) Snowflake
6 25 (5.95%) Collibra
6 25 (5.95%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (5.24%) Matillion
8 21 (5.00%) Serverless
9 20 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (3.57%) GitHub
12 11 (2.62%) PaaS
13 10 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.14%) SaaS
15 8 (1.90%) dbt
16 7 (1.67%) Alation
16 7 (1.67%) Dagster
16 7 (1.67%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.48%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.71%) WebEx
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 66 (15.71%) Data Lake
3 53 (12.62%) Power BI
4 34 (8.10%) SQL Server
5 26 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 24 (5.71%) Big Data
7 22 (5.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (5.00%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (2.62%) Ataccama
10 11 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
12 8 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.90%) Data Hub
12 8 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (1.90%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.43%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (19.76%) Git
2 72 (17.14%) Jenkins
3 65 (15.48%) Artifactory
3 65 (15.48%) Bitbucket
4 11 (2.62%) JIRA
5 9 (2.14%) GitLab
6 4 (0.95%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.71%) ERwin
8 2 (0.48%) Ant
8 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
9 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 183 (43.57%) Finance
2 118 (28.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 82 (19.52%) Marketing
5 75 (17.86%) Law
6 54 (12.86%) Banking
7 21 (5.00%) Retail Banking
8 17 (4.05%) Financial Institution
8 17 (4.05%) Legal
9 13 (3.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.62%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.67%) Billing
12 7 (1.67%) Retail
13 6 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.95%) Wearables
15 3 (0.71%) Publishing
16 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 174 (41.43%) Architect
2 150 (35.71%) Data Architect
3 127 (30.24%) Senior
4 81 (19.29%) Lead
5 73 (17.38%) Software Engineer
6 67 (15.95%) Lead Software Engineer
7 52 (12.38%) Senior Architect
7 52 (12.38%) Senior Data Architect
8 45 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 40 (9.52%) Data Engineer
10 36 (8.57%) Analyst
11 30 (7.14%) Data Analyst
12 22 (5.24%) Data Manager
13 17 (4.05%) Enterprise Architect
13 17 (4.05%) Salesforce Architect
14 15 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.57%) DevOps Architect
14 15 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Architect
14 15 (3.57%) Governance Analyst
15 14 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (17.38%) XML
2 70 (16.67%) Web Services
3 66 (15.71%) JSON
4 65 (15.48%) JSON-LD
4 65 (15.48%) LDAP
4 65 (15.48%) OpenID
4 65 (15.48%) RESTful
4 65 (15.48%) SAML
5 6 (1.43%) .NET
5 6 (1.43%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (1.43%) PySpark
6 5 (1.19%) HTML
6 5 (1.19%) Itk
6 5 (1.19%) J2EE
7 4 (0.95%) Kafka
7 4 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.71%) Flask
8 3 (0.71%) Pandas
8 3 (0.71%) Plotly
8 3 (0.71%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 129 (30.71%) Management Information System
2 84 (20.00%) Reference Data
3 65 (15.48%) Enterprise Cloud
4 23 (5.48%) Product Ownership
5 21 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.57%) PlayStation
7 14 (3.33%) Algorithms
8 10 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.90%) Blog
10 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.90%) NHS
11 7 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.43%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.19%) Taxonomies
13 5 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.62%) Windows
2 3 (0.71%) Android
2 3 (0.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.71%) Unix
2 3 (0.71%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (61.19%) Data Modelling
2 191 (45.48%) Agile
3 190 (45.24%) Metadata Management
4 155 (36.90%) Data Management
5 146 (34.76%) Analytics
6 145 (34.52%) Data Architecture
7 123 (29.29%) Data Pipeline
8 120 (28.57%) Data Governance
9 110 (26.19%) CI/CD
10 109 (25.95%) Roadmaps
11 105 (25.00%) Data Strategy
12 97 (23.10%) SDLC
13 96 (22.86%) Software Engineering
14 92 (21.90%) Business Intelligence
15 89 (21.19%) Use Case
16 87 (20.71%) DevOps
17 81 (19.29%) Data Transformation
18 78 (18.57%) Architectural Design
19 76 (18.10%) ETL
20 75 (17.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 126 (30.00%) SQL
2 65 (15.48%) Go
2 65 (15.48%) Prolog
2 65 (15.48%) SPARQL
3 54 (12.86%) Python
4 40 (9.52%) T-SQL
5 24 (5.71%) Java
6 9 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.90%) R
7 8 (1.90%) Scala
8 5 (1.19%) C
8 5 (1.19%) C++
8 5 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.95%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.71%) VBA
11 2 (0.48%) C#
11 2 (0.48%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (8.57%) Degree
2 22 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.43%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.19%) MCAD
8 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) MCSE
11 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (36.90%) Data Quality
2 46 (10.95%) GDPR
3 6 (1.43%) GRC
4 5 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.95%) QA
6 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (0.48%) HL7
7 2 (0.48%) IEC 61131
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (15.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.95%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (3.81%) Terraform
2 3 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) Control-M
3 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 82 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.57%) Databricks
3 34 (8.10%) Oracle
4 23 (5.48%) Informatica
5 20 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 17 (4.05%) IBM
7 15 (3.57%) Facebook
7 15 (3.57%) Sony
8 13 (3.10%) Google
9 10 (2.38%) SAP
10 4 (0.95%) Adobe
10 4 (0.95%) ESRI
10 4 (0.95%) Talend
11 3 (0.71%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.71%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.71%) Cisco
11 3 (0.71%) iManage
11 3 (0.71%) Sparx
12 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.48%) Siemens