Metadata Jobs in the City of London

Metadata
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 116 160 196
Rank change year-on-year +44 +36 +12
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 21 23 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.08% 0.69% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.08% 2.71% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 32
10th Percentile £45,750 £37,875 £58,875
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -11.76% +30.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £87,813 £95,625
90th Percentile £90,975 £95,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.88% +30.77%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 413 849 1,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.30% 25.41% 23.18%
Number of salaries quoted 322 614 909
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
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% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +5.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the City of London.

Salary trend for Metadata in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Power Platform
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (28.57%) Collibra
5 3 (14.29%) AWS
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) dbt
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) Power BI
2 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) IBM InfoSphere
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) Tableau
3 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (9.52%) Data Hub
4 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
4 2 (9.52%) Power Query
4 2 (9.52%) SQL CLR
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.76%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ER Studio
1 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 9 (42.86%) Law
2 5 (23.81%) Marketing
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Legal
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Back Office
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 7 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (23.81%) Data Steward
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) IT Trainer
3 3 (14.29%) Legal IT Trainer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Trainer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (9.52%) SaaS Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (4.76%) SharePoint Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) e-Learning
1 3 (14.29%) iPhone
2 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Taxonomies
3 1 (4.76%) Blog
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) FMCG
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Android
2 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 11 (52.38%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 9 (42.86%) Metadata Management
4 8 (38.10%) Data Lineage
5 7 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 7 (33.33%) Migration
6 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 6 (28.57%) Workflow
7 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
7 5 (23.81%) Business Strategy
7 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
7 5 (23.81%) Data Collection
7 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
7 5 (23.81%) Data Security
7 5 (23.81%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (23.81%) Document Management
7 5 (23.81%) ETL
7 5 (23.81%) Quality Management
7 5 (23.81%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Scala
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 6 (28.57%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Informatica
3 5 (23.81%) IBM
4 3 (14.29%) Cisco
4 3 (14.29%) Databricks
4 3 (14.29%) iManage
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) Nintex
6 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.76%) Sparx