Metadata Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Metadata
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.11% - 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.25% - 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - -
75th Percentile £88,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridgeshire

Metadata falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 80 93 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.89% 10.38% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 69 45 79
10th Percentile - £27,350 £27,200
25th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £53,750 £78,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £89,750 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% -4.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Metadata relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Metadata job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Metadata

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Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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
Peterborough - 1 £87,500 - 5
Metadata
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zachman Framework