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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 160 210
Rank change year-on-year +31 +50 +6
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 30 25 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.26% 0.66% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.79% 2.64% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 33
10th Percentile £45,750 £38,200 £59,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -5.88% +30.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,975 £95,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -3.78%

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 518 946 1,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.75% 25.06% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 361 668 992
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,100 £49,775
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £110,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +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 May 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 May 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 +44 21 £55,000 -26.67% 9
Southwark - 6 - -
City of Westminster - 6 - - 2
Camden -9 3 - -
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 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.00%) nginx
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Power Platform
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (20.00%) AWS
4 6 (20.00%) Collibra
5 5 (16.67%) SaaS
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.00%) npm
6 3 (10.00%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (6.67%) GCP
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.33%) dbt
8 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (53.33%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (16.67%) Data Hub
3 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
3 5 (16.67%) SQL CLR
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (16.67%) Tableau
4 4 (13.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (6.67%) Power Query
6 1 (3.33%) Data Mart
6 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Babel
1 3 (10.00%) Git
1 3 (10.00%) gulp
1 3 (10.00%) webpack
2 1 (3.33%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.33%) ERwin
General
1 9 (30.00%) Law
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Back Office
3 5 (16.67%) Marketing
4 3 (10.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.00%) Legal
4 3 (10.00%) Publishing
4 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Data Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Lead
4 5 (16.67%) Data Steward
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
4 5 (16.67%) SaaS Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Senior SQL Developer
4 5 (16.67%) SQL Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.00%) IT Trainer
5 3 (10.00%) Legal IT Trainer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Trainer
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) HTML
2 3 (10.00%) CSS
2 3 (10.00%) Node.js
2 3 (10.00%) OAuth
2 3 (10.00%) React
2 3 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Sass
2 3 (10.00%) Svelte
2 3 (10.00%) Vue
3 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.33%) JSON
4 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (20.00%) Smart City
3 5 (16.67%) Private Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) e-Learning
4 3 (10.00%) iPhone
5 2 (6.67%) Taxonomies
6 1 (3.33%) Blog
6 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.33%) FMCG
6 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (43.33%) Data Privacy
3 12 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 12 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (33.33%) Migration
5 9 (30.00%) Metadata Management
5 9 (30.00%) Workflow
6 8 (26.67%) Data Lineage
6 8 (26.67%) Data Science
7 7 (23.33%) Analytics
7 7 (23.33%) Data Sharing
7 7 (23.33%) Decision-Making
8 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (20.00%) Data Analytics
8 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Data Management
8 6 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) Facilities Management
8 6 (20.00%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.00%) R
4 3 (10.00%) Scala
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Informatica
3 5 (16.67%) IBM
3 5 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Databricks
4 3 (10.00%) iManage
5 1 (3.33%) Nintex
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Sparx