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 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 735 770 845
Rank change year-on-year +35 +75 -55
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 170 203 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 125 115 235
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £101,500
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 84,360 99,485 147,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.62% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59,619 58,411 83,272
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 28 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 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
England +84 155 £80,000 +29.79% 35
UK excluding London -18 79 £80,000 +33.33% 14
London +132 78 £78,750 +19.88% 20
Work from Home +53 59 £85,000 +29.40% 14
South East +10 34 £85,000 +41.67% 1
North of England +47 27 £92,778 +78.42% 6
North West +20 15 £100,000 +92.31% 3
Midlands -5 10 £62,500 +21.95% 2
West Midlands +23 9 £62,500 +19.05% 1
Yorkshire +96 8 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South West -19 6 £75,000 -36.12% 4
North East - 4 £42,500 -
Scotland -59 2 £73,750 -
East Midlands -13 1 £62,500 +39.31% 1

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 88 (51.76%) Azure
2 45 (26.47%) Power Platform
3 29 (17.06%) AWS
4 28 (16.47%) Snowflake
5 25 (14.71%) Matillion
6 23 (13.53%) GCP
7 19 (11.18%) Microsoft Purview
8 18 (10.59%) Serverless
9 17 (10.00%) Collibra
10 15 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (8.24%) GitHub
12 6 (3.53%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.94%) Alation
13 5 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.94%) IaaS
13 5 (2.94%) PaaS
14 3 (1.76%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (1.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (100.00%) Metadata
2 52 (30.59%) Data Lake
3 46 (27.06%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (23.53%) 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%) Data Hub
13 3 (1.76%) SAS EBI
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 84 (49.41%) Finance
2 71 (41.76%) 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
12 1 (0.59%) Local Government
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%) Governance Analyst
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 16 (9.41%) 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%) Taxonomies
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%) 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 80 (47.06%) Analytics
5 79 (46.47%) Data Governance
5 79 (46.47%) Data Strategy
6 76 (44.71%) Agile
7 70 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (28.82%) Data Analysis
9 48 (28.24%) DevOps
10 47 (27.65%) ETL
11 44 (25.88%) Logical Data Model
12 39 (22.94%) Data Design
12 39 (22.94%) Data Pipeline
13 36 (21.18%) Physical Data Model
14 34 (20.00%) Data Science
15 29 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (17.06%) Data Privacy
15 29 (17.06%) Roadmaps
16 27 (15.88%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.53%) SQL
2 34 (20.00%) 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
5 3 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.59%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (57.06%) Data Quality
2 32 (18.82%) 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 41 (24.12%) 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