Metadata Management Job Trends in Central London

Metadata Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 171 153
Rank change year-on-year +42 -18 +79
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 15 13 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.58% 0.40% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.42% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 16
10th Percentile £52,500 - £65,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £47,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,336 £50,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +68.67% -46.67% +56.25%
75th Percentile £98,438 £52,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £118,375 £56,400 £110,000
London median annual salary £87,500 £61,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -31.94% +32.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,238 3,082 2,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 87.22% 95.89% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,643 1,843 2,523
10th Percentile £41,850 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.33% - -

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Metadata Management
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Metadata Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in Central London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in Central London

Metadata Management
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
City of London +34 14 £83,672 +67.34% 5
Metadata Management
London

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
3 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Alation
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (13.33%) dbt
4 2 (13.33%) Fivetran
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) H2O.ai
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Metadata
2 7 (46.67%) Data Lake
2 7 (46.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Power BI
4 3 (20.00%) Tableau
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (13.33%) DataStage
5 2 (13.33%) QlikView
6 1 (6.67%) MS Access
6 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (6.67%) Power Query
6 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) ER Studio
1 2 (13.33%) ERwin
1 2 (13.33%) PowerDesigner
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
1 4 (26.67%) Law
1 4 (26.67%) Legal
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Architect
1 7 (46.67%) Data Architect
2 4 (26.67%) IT Trainer
2 4 (26.67%) Legal IT Trainer
2 4 (26.67%) Trainer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) GCP Architect
4 2 (13.33%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Keras
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (26.67%) e-Learning
2 4 (26.67%) iPhone
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Android
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Analytics
1 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (53.33%) Data Management
3 7 (46.67%) AI
3 7 (46.67%) Data Architecture
3 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
4 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (40.00%) ETL
5 5 (33.33%) Data Strategy
5 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
6 4 (26.67%) Data Integration
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Document Management
6 4 (26.67%) Expense Management
6 4 (26.67%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (26.67%) Workflow
6 4 (26.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SnowPro
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (13.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 4 (26.67%) iManage
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 2 (13.33%) Informatica
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) NVIDIA
4 1 (6.67%) OneTrust