Metadata Job Trends in the East of England

Metadata
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - 134
Rank change year-on-year - - +118
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 10 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.32% - 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.80% - 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £60,375 - £31,125
25th Percentile £64,688 - £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 - £36,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.09%
75th Percentile £82,188 - £40,313
90th Percentile £86,125 - £42,375
England median annual salary £64,350 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.25% -11.11% -2.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 357 539 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.34% 12.85% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 291 256 264
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £35,575
25th Percentile £27,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% -0.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Metadata

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Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the East of England

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Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Norfolk - 3 - -
Suffolk - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £87,500 - 6
Hertfordshire - 2 £60,000 - 2
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 3
Metadata
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Google Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) H2O.ai
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (20.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Cognos Connection
2 1 (10.00%) Cognos Event Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) OLAP
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Electronics
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) SEO Executive
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cognos Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modeller
3 1 (10.00%) Report Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Keras
1 3 (30.00%) Pandas
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (20.00%) Metaflow
2 2 (20.00%) NumPy
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) MDX
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (10.00%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (30.00%) AI
2 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (30.00%) Link Building
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (30.00%) SEO
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Data Science
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) MLOps
3 2 (20.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubeflow
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Ahrefs
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Screaming Frog
3 1 (10.00%) Cognos
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (10.00%) SAP