Metadata Jobs in Scotland

Metadata
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 207 228
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 -54
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 70 15 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.04% 0.32% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.60% 1.75% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £50,072 £51,500 £41,618
25th Percentile £51,920 £54,250 £41,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +46.07% -11.88%
75th Percentile £78,125 £70,313 £46,250
90th Percentile £86,000 £90,000 £50,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,943 858 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 28.93% 18.22% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 488 476 581
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,833 £42,688 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,715 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £89,852 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Metadata in Scotland

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Glasgow -42 67 £56,033 -4.22% 1
Edinburgh +28 1 £87,500 +34.62% 1
Metadata
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.43%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (92.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
1 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.43%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.43%) OLAP
2 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 65 (92.86%) Artifactory
1 65 (92.86%) Bitbucket
1 65 (92.86%) Git
1 65 (92.86%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (95.71%) Finance
2 65 (92.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (92.86%) Law
2 65 (92.86%) Marketing
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (95.71%) Lead
2 65 (92.86%) Lead Software Engineer
2 65 (92.86%) Software Engineer
3 43 (61.43%) Senior
4 42 (60.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (4.29%) Architect
5 3 (4.29%) Data Architect
6 2 (2.86%) Lead Architect
6 2 (2.86%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (1.43%) Data Governance Analyst
7 1 (1.43%) Data Governance Manager
7 1 (1.43%) Data Manager
7 1 (1.43%) Data Modeller
7 1 (1.43%) Governance Manager
7 1 (1.43%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (92.86%) JSON
1 65 (92.86%) JSON-LD
1 65 (92.86%) LDAP
1 65 (92.86%) OpenID
1 65 (92.86%) RESTful
1 65 (92.86%) SAML
1 65 (92.86%) Web Services
1 65 (92.86%) XML
2 2 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 65 (92.86%) Enterprise Cloud
1 65 (92.86%) Management Information System
1 65 (92.86%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (98.57%) Data Modelling
2 67 (95.71%) Roadmaps
3 66 (94.29%) Use Case
4 65 (92.86%) Agile
4 65 (92.86%) Architectural Design
4 65 (92.86%) CI/CD
4 65 (92.86%) Community of Practice
4 65 (92.86%) Continuous Delivery
4 65 (92.86%) Data Pipeline
4 65 (92.86%) Data Transformation
4 65 (92.86%) Identity Access Management
4 65 (92.86%) Information Architecture
4 65 (92.86%) Ontologies
4 65 (92.86%) Operational Stability
4 65 (92.86%) RDF
4 65 (92.86%) SDLC
4 65 (92.86%) Software Engineering
4 65 (92.86%) Test Automation
5 4 (5.71%) Data Architecture
5 4 (5.71%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (92.86%) Go
1 65 (92.86%) Prolog
1 65 (92.86%) SPARQL
2 3 (4.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 65 (92.86%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (2.86%) Databricks
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (1.43%) Informatica
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft