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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 160 193
Rank change year-on-year +43 +33 +5
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 21 22 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.03% 0.66% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.79% 2.60% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 35
10th Percentile £46,000 £37,550 £59,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,875 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -9.38% +23.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £88,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,800 £95,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% -6.45% +19.23%

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 438 845 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.50% 25.28% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 342 620 963
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £49,800
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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

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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 17 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%) SharePoint
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Power Platform
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (23.81%) Collibra
5 3 (14.29%) AWS
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (9.52%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) dbt
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
7 1 (4.76%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) 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 Mining
4 2 (9.52%) Power Query
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.76%) Data Hub
5 1 (4.76%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (4.76%) SQL CLR
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ER Studio
1 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 10 (47.62%) Law
2 5 (23.81%) Marketing
3 4 (19.05%) Legal
4 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Finance
6 1 (4.76%) Back Office
6 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 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 4 (19.05%) IT Trainer
3 4 (19.05%) Legal IT Trainer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Trainer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
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 4 (19.05%) e-Learning
1 4 (19.05%) iPhone
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%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Android
2 4 (19.05%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Data Modelling
1 11 (52.38%) Metadata Management
2 8 (38.10%) Data Governance
2 8 (38.10%) Data Lineage
3 7 (33.33%) Migration
4 6 (28.57%) Business Strategy
4 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 6 (28.57%) Data Privacy
4 6 (28.57%) Document Management
4 6 (28.57%) Workflow
5 5 (23.81%) Data Collection
5 5 (23.81%) Data Mapping
5 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
5 5 (23.81%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (23.81%) Quality Management
5 5 (23.81%) RBAC
5 5 (23.81%) Use Case
5 5 (23.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) 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 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) IBM
2 5 (23.81%) Informatica
3 4 (19.05%) Cisco
3 4 (19.05%) iManage
4 3 (14.29%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) Nintex
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.76%) Sparx
5 1 (4.76%) VMware