Metadata Job Trends in East London

Metadata
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 0.42% - 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% - 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92,500 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £80,000 £63,750 £73,000
% change year-on-year +25.49% -12.67% +4.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East 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 East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 23 10 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 9.58% 4.85% 18.56%
Number of salaries quoted 19 1 50
10th Percentile £32,008 - £50,750
25th Percentile £33,919 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £150,000 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year -73.33% +128.14% +14.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £80,000
90th Percentile - - £86,125
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in East London

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Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Metadata

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Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the East London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £95,000 -
Metadata
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft