Metadata Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 724 784 832
Rank change year-on-year +60 +48 -37
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 170 208 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 125 120 227
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,375 £48,534
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,775 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -16.17% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Metadata Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +80 155 £80,000 +31.63% 26
UK excluding London -4 80 £80,000 +33.33% 11
London +117 77 £75,000 +14.78% 13
Work from Home +72 59 £85,000 +29.40% 10
South East +14 35 £85,000 +41.67% 1
North of England +51 27 £92,778 +78.42% 5
North West +15 15 £100,000 +92.31% 2
Midlands +4 10 £62,500 +21.95% 1
West Midlands +16 9 £62,500 +19.05% 1
Yorkshire +90 8 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South West -21 6 £75,000 -36.12% 3
North East - 4 £42,500 -
Scotland -59 2 £73,750 -
East Midlands -16 1 £62,500 +39.31%

Metadata Management
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 11 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.71%) Confluence
3 5 (2.94%) SAS
4 4 (2.35%) Apache
4 4 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.18%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.35%) Azure
2 46 (27.06%) Power Platform
3 29 (17.06%) AWS
3 29 (17.06%) Snowflake
4 26 (15.29%) Matillion
5 23 (13.53%) GCP
6 19 (11.18%) Microsoft Purview
6 19 (11.18%) Serverless
7 17 (10.00%) Collibra
8 15 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (8.24%) GitHub
10 6 (3.53%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.94%) Alation
11 5 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.94%) IaaS
11 5 (2.94%) PaaS
12 3 (1.76%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (1.76%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (100.00%) Metadata
2 53 (31.18%) Data Lake
3 46 (27.06%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (24.12%) Power BI
5 15 (8.82%) Big Data
6 13 (7.65%) Relational Database
6 13 (7.65%) SQL Server
7 11 (6.47%) Ataccama
8 10 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.29%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.53%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (2.94%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 4 (2.35%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.35%) Parquet
12 4 (2.35%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.76%) SAS EBI
13 3 (1.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.29%) Git
2 8 (4.71%) GitLab
2 8 (4.71%) JIRA
3 5 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.94%) Spinnaker
4 4 (2.35%) ERwin
5 1 (0.59%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Toad
General
1 85 (50.00%) Finance
2 72 (42.35%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (30.59%) Social Skills
4 30 (17.65%) Banking
5 26 (15.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (7.06%) Financial Institution
6 12 (7.06%) Retail Banking
7 8 (4.71%) Legal
8 7 (4.12%) Billing
9 5 (2.94%) Marketing
9 5 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.35%) Law
10 4 (2.35%) Wearables
11 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Retail
12 1 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 81 (47.65%) Architect
2 76 (44.71%) Data Architect
3 42 (24.71%) Senior
4 29 (17.06%) Senior Architect
4 29 (17.06%) Senior Data Architect
5 25 (14.71%) Data Engineer
6 20 (11.76%) Analyst
7 16 (9.41%) Data Analyst
8 15 (8.82%) Enterprise Architect
8 15 (8.82%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 15 (8.82%) Lead
9 12 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (6.47%) Azure Data Engineer
10 11 (6.47%) Data Manager
11 9 (5.29%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (4.12%) Consultant
12 7 (4.12%) Data Governance Analyst
12 7 (4.12%) Data Governance Manager
12 7 (4.12%) Governance Manager
13 6 (3.53%) Data Analytics Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.12%) .NET
2 5 (2.94%) J2EE
3 3 (1.76%) XML
4 2 (1.18%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.18%) Great Expectations
4 2 (1.18%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.59%) FHIR
5 1 (0.59%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.59%) JSON
5 1 (0.59%) Kafka
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.59%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.47%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.59%) Product Ownership
3 15 (8.82%) Reference Data
4 11 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.53%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.94%) NHS
8 5 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (2.35%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.76%) IoT
10 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.18%) e-Learning
11 2 (1.18%) iPhone
11 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.18%) W3C
12 1 (0.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.35%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Android
2 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (62.35%) Data Modelling
2 89 (52.35%) Data Management
3 86 (50.59%) Data Architecture
4 81 (47.65%) Analytics
5 79 (46.47%) Data Strategy
6 78 (45.88%) Data Governance
7 76 (44.71%) Agile
8 71 (41.76%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (29.41%) Data Analysis
10 48 (28.24%) DevOps
10 48 (28.24%) ETL
11 43 (25.29%) Logical Data Model
12 40 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
13 39 (22.94%) Data Design
14 35 (20.59%) Data Science
14 35 (20.59%) Physical Data Model
15 30 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (17.06%) Data Privacy
17 28 (16.47%) Machine Learning
17 28 (16.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 75 (44.12%) SQL
2 35 (20.59%) T-SQL
3 18 (10.59%) Python
4 10 (5.88%) Java
5 4 (2.35%) R
6 3 (1.76%) C#
6 3 (1.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.18%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.18%) Scala
8 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.24%) Azure Certification
2 12 (7.06%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.88%) Degree
4 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (56.47%) Data Quality
2 33 (19.41%) GDPR
3 5 (2.94%) GRC
4 3 (1.76%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (1.18%) HL7
5 2 (1.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.59%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (5.29%) Terraform
2 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 51 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 42 (24.71%) Databricks
3 11 (6.47%) Oracle
4 8 (4.71%) Informatica
5 7 (4.12%) Google
6 5 (2.94%) SAP
7 4 (2.35%) Talend
8 3 (1.76%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.18%) Cisco
9 2 (1.18%) iManage
9 2 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.59%) Apple
10 1 (0.59%) Facebook
10 1 (0.59%) IBM
10 1 (0.59%) Remedy
10 1 (0.59%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.59%) Sparx