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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 529 502
Rank change year-on-year +11 -27 +96
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 425 526 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 2.43% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 238 327 511
10th Percentile £39,275 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,174 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,249 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.74% +9.54% +4.76%

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 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
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 £76,250 £83,750 £79,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -11 317 £70,000 +7.69% 95
UK excluding London +3 237 £62,500 +3.74% 46
London +20 149 £75,000 +9.17% 49
Work from Home -34 121 £72,500 +7.41% 46
Scotland -10 70 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Midlands +12 58 £55,000 +4.76% 12
West Midlands +33 54 £55,000 -4.35% 11
North of England +59 52 £71,250 +5.56% 11
South East -33 40 £85,000 +41.67% 8
North West +27 31 £92,778 +78.42% 7
Yorkshire +81 13 £60,000 -19.46% 4
South West -43 13 £68,937 +14.42% 6
North East -3 8 £42,625 -7.34%
East Midlands -15 4 £50,000 +11.45% 1
East of England +9 3 £31,000 -43.64% 6
Wales -2 1 £47,500 -18.10% 3

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 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.06%) Confluence
4 12 (2.82%) SAS
5 8 (1.88%) Apache
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.94%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.24%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.24%) Documentum
9 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.94%) Trello
4 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.18%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 133 (31.29%) Azure
2 71 (16.71%) AWS
3 55 (12.94%) Power Platform
4 45 (10.59%) GCP
5 28 (6.59%) Snowflake
6 26 (6.12%) Collibra
7 24 (5.65%) Matillion
7 24 (5.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (5.65%) Serverless
8 22 (5.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (4.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (4.00%) GitHub
12 11 (2.59%) PaaS
13 9 (2.12%) SaaS
14 8 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.88%) dbt
15 7 (1.65%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (1.65%) Dagster
15 7 (1.65%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.29%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.47%) WebEx
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (18.35%) Data Warehouse
2 65 (15.29%) Data Lake
3 50 (11.76%) Power BI
4 28 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 25 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 22 (5.18%) Big Data
7 18 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (3.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.59%) Delta Lake
10 11 (2.59%) Metadata Repository
11 10 (2.35%) Ataccama
12 9 (2.12%) Data Hub
13 8 (1.88%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.88%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 7 (1.65%) Tableau
15 6 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 84 (19.76%) Git
2 75 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 65 (15.29%) Artifactory
3 65 (15.29%) Bitbucket
4 15 (3.53%) JIRA
5 9 (2.12%) GitLab
6 7 (1.65%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.71%) ERwin
8 2 (0.47%) Ant
8 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.47%) 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
1 184 (43.29%) Finance
2 118 (27.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 96 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (21.41%) Social Skills
5 88 (20.71%) Marketing
6 76 (17.88%) Law
7 51 (12.00%) Banking
8 18 (4.24%) Legal
8 18 (4.24%) Retail Banking
9 17 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.29%) Financial Institution
11 13 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.88%) Retail
14 7 (1.65%) Billing
15 6 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.94%) Wearables
17 3 (0.71%) Publishing
18 2 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 178 (41.88%) Architect
2 153 (36.00%) Data Architect
3 121 (28.47%) Senior
4 85 (20.00%) Lead
5 72 (16.94%) Software Engineer
6 67 (15.76%) Lead Software Engineer
7 52 (12.24%) Senior Architect
7 52 (12.24%) Senior Data Architect
8 46 (10.82%) Data Engineer
9 45 (10.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 33 (7.76%) Analyst
11 27 (6.35%) Data Analyst
12 21 (4.94%) Data Manager
13 17 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
13 17 (4.00%) Salesforce Architect
14 16 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (3.53%) Azure Data Engineer
15 15 (3.53%) DevOps Architect
15 15 (3.53%) Enterprise Data Architect
16 12 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.65%) XML
2 70 (16.47%) Web Services
3 67 (15.76%) JSON
4 65 (15.29%) JSON-LD
4 65 (15.29%) LDAP
4 65 (15.29%) OpenID
4 65 (15.29%) RESTful
4 65 (15.29%) SAML
5 8 (1.88%) .NET
6 6 (1.41%) Anaconda
6 6 (1.41%) Flask
6 6 (1.41%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (1.41%) Pandas
6 6 (1.41%) Plotly
6 6 (1.41%) SQLAlchemy
7 5 (1.18%) HTML
7 5 (1.18%) Itk
7 5 (1.18%) J2EE
7 5 (1.18%) Kafka
8 4 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 127 (29.88%) Management Information System
2 83 (19.53%) Reference Data
3 65 (15.29%) Enterprise Cloud
4 27 (6.35%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.53%) PlayStation
7 12 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.88%) Blog
8 8 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.65%) NHS
10 6 (1.41%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.41%) Taxonomies
11 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.59%) Windows
2 3 (0.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.71%) Unix
3 2 (0.47%) Android
3 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (61.65%) Data Modelling
2 196 (46.12%) Agile
3 185 (43.53%) Metadata Management
4 154 (36.24%) Data Management
5 150 (35.29%) Data Architecture
6 145 (34.12%) Analytics
7 130 (30.59%) Data Pipeline
8 114 (26.82%) Data Governance
9 105 (24.71%) Data Strategy
10 104 (24.47%) Roadmaps
11 102 (24.00%) CI/CD
12 96 (22.59%) SDLC
13 95 (22.35%) Software Engineering
14 91 (21.41%) Use Case
15 90 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
15 90 (21.18%) DevOps
16 80 (18.82%) Data Transformation
16 80 (18.82%) ETL
17 78 (18.35%) Architectural Design
17 78 (18.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 128 (30.12%) SQL
2 65 (15.29%) Go
2 65 (15.29%) Prolog
2 65 (15.29%) SPARQL
3 59 (13.88%) Python
4 41 (9.65%) T-SQL
5 24 (5.65%) Java
6 10 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.88%) R
7 8 (1.88%) Scala
8 5 (1.18%) C
8 5 (1.18%) C++
8 5 (1.18%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.94%) C#
9 4 (0.94%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.71%) VBA
11 2 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
11 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (8.71%) Degree
2 22 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (4.24%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.29%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.29%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.29%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.18%) MCAD
7 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) HND
10 1 (0.24%) MCSE
10 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (33.88%) Data Quality
2 49 (11.53%) GDPR
3 6 (1.41%) GRC
4 5 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.94%) QA
6 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (0.47%) HL7
7 2 (0.47%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (15.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.06%) Terraform
2 3 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.47%) WebSphere Cast Iron
4 1 (0.24%) Control-M
Vendors
1 78 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 59 (13.88%) Databricks
3 32 (7.53%) Oracle
4 20 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 18 (4.24%) IBM
6 17 (4.00%) Google
6 17 (4.00%) Informatica
7 16 (3.76%) Facebook
8 15 (3.53%) Sony
9 11 (2.59%) SAP
10 4 (0.94%) Adobe
10 4 (0.94%) ESRI
10 4 (0.94%) Talend
11 3 (0.71%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
12 2 (0.47%) iManage
12 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.47%) Siemens
12 2 (0.47%) SnapLogic