Metadata Jobs in Central London

Metadata
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 172 207
Rank change year-on-year +34 +35 +5
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 27 25 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.06% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.66% 2.79% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 37
10th Percentile - £38,200 £57,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% -3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £59,375 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £95,000 £114,500
London median annual salary £71,250 £75,000 £68,703
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.17% -8.40%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 579 897 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.80% 23.71% 23.29%
Number of salaries quoted 403 670 1,100
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,125 £92,500 £96,375
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,250 £111,250
London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Central London

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Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Metadata in Central London

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Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in Central London

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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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
City of London +36 21 £50,500 -30.34% 2
Southwark -2 5 - -
City of Westminster - 5 - - 1
Camden -10 1 - -
Metadata
London

Metadata
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Power Platform
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Collibra
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (14.81%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (7.41%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.70%) npm
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) WebEx
2 3 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (51.85%) Power BI
2 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (22.22%) Tableau
3 5 (18.52%) Data Lake
3 5 (18.52%) IBM InfoSphere
3 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (7.41%) Data Hub
5 2 (7.41%) Data Mart
5 2 (7.41%) Data Mining
5 2 (7.41%) Data Vault
5 2 (7.41%) Power Query
5 2 (7.41%) SQL CLR
6 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
6 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Babel
1 1 (3.70%) ER Studio
1 1 (3.70%) ERwin
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) gulp
1 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 11 (40.74%) Law
2 6 (22.22%) Legal
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Marketing
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Advertising
4 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Back Office
6 1 (3.70%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Lead
2 6 (22.22%) IT Trainer
2 6 (22.22%) Legal IT Trainer
2 6 (22.22%) Trainer
3 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Data Steward
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Product Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Developer
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior SQL Developer
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Data Modeller
7 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
1 2 (7.41%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Sass
2 1 (3.70%) Svelte
2 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) e-Learning
1 6 (22.22%) iPhone
2 5 (18.52%) Smart City
3 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Blog
5 1 (3.70%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Android
2 6 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Data Modelling
1 12 (44.44%) Metadata Management
2 11 (40.74%) Data Governance
3 8 (29.63%) Business Strategy
3 8 (29.63%) Data Lineage
3 8 (29.63%) Data Privacy
3 8 (29.63%) Workflow
4 7 (25.93%) Data Integration
4 7 (25.93%) Data Science
4 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
4 7 (25.93%) Document Management
5 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 6 (22.22%) Data Management
5 6 (22.22%) Expense Management
5 6 (22.22%) Preventative Maintenance
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Quality Management
5 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 6 (22.22%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.41%) Scala
3 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 8 (29.63%) Data Quality
3 5 (18.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco
2 6 (22.22%) iManage
3 5 (18.52%) IBM
3 5 (18.52%) Informatica
4 3 (11.11%) Databricks
5 2 (7.41%) VMware
6 1 (3.70%) Sparx
6 1 (3.70%) StreamSets