Metadata Management Jobs in England

Metadata Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 674 757
Rank change year-on-year +125 +83 +74
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 130 176 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.23% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 37 124 85
10th Percentile £44,316 £50,000 £50,200
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +19.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £117,000 £105,250 £107,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £64,846
% change year-on-year -16.13% +19.51% -13.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in England

Metadata Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in England.

Salary trend for Metadata Management in England

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in England

Metadata Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +75 61 £72,500 -9.38% 47
South East +94 48 £90,000 +5.88% 5
South West +118 12 £66,367 -11.51% 6
Midlands +56 6 £56,250 -6.25% 5
West Midlands +47 5 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Yorkshire +48 1 £46,500 -22.50% 6
East Midlands +43 1 £42,500 -32.00% 3
North of England +9 1 £46,500 -51.76% 9
Metadata Management
UK

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.54%) Apache
2 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.77%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Maximo
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (53.85%) Azure
2 67 (51.54%) AWS
3 59 (45.38%) GCP
4 29 (22.31%) Power Platform
5 27 (20.77%) Snowflake
6 15 (11.54%) Collibra
7 14 (10.77%) Salsify
8 12 (9.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (5.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.31%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.31%) SaaS
11 2 (1.54%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.54%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.54%) IaaS
11 2 (1.54%) PaaS
11 2 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (100.00%) Metadata
2 51 (39.23%) Data Lake
3 42 (32.31%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (20.00%) Power BI
5 18 (13.85%) Metadata Repository
6 12 (9.23%) Tableau
7 10 (7.69%) Big Data
8 9 (6.92%) Hadoop
9 8 (6.15%) BigQuery
9 8 (6.15%) NoSQL
10 7 (5.38%) Ataccama
10 7 (5.38%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.85%) Spark SQL
13 2 (1.54%) Apache Hive
13 2 (1.54%) Bigtable
13 2 (1.54%) HBase
13 2 (1.54%) Impala
13 2 (1.54%) Pentaho
13 2 (1.54%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (0.77%) Ant
2 1 (0.77%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.77%) ERwin
2 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
General
1 55 (42.31%) Law
2 51 (39.23%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (35.38%) Social Skills
4 44 (33.85%) Finance
5 34 (26.15%) Banking
6 21 (16.15%) Financial Institution
6 21 (16.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (16.15%) Retail Banking
7 20 (15.38%) Legal
8 17 (13.08%) Marketing
9 15 (11.54%) Retail
10 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.31%) Electronics
11 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.77%) Back Office
12 1 (0.77%) Front Office
12 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (37.69%) Lead
2 47 (36.15%) Senior
3 33 (25.38%) Architect
4 31 (23.85%) Data Architect
5 14 (10.77%) Data Engineer
5 14 (10.77%) Senior Manager
6 8 (6.15%) Data Manager
7 6 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Data Quality Manager
9 4 (3.08%) Product Lead
9 4 (3.08%) Quality Manager
10 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.31%) IT Trainer
10 3 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (2.31%) Legal IT Trainer
10 3 (2.31%) Trainer
11 2 (1.54%) Migration Engineer
11 2 (1.54%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.15%) Kafka
2 5 (3.85%) PySpark
3 3 (2.31%) XML
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Jena
5 1 (0.77%) NumPy
5 1 (0.77%) Pandas
5 1 (0.77%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.77%) XSD
5 1 (0.77%) XSLT
5 1 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Management Information System
2 17 (13.08%) Taxonomies
3 13 (10.00%) FMCG
4 12 (9.23%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.15%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.85%) Reference Data
6 5 (3.85%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.31%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) iPhone
7 3 (2.31%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.77%) Life Science
9 1 (0.77%) NHS
9 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.08%) Windows
2 3 (2.31%) Android
2 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.77%) Linux
3 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (75.38%) Data Management
2 76 (58.46%) Analytics
3 74 (56.92%) Data Modelling
4 72 (55.38%) Data Governance
5 58 (44.62%) Data Architecture
6 55 (42.31%) Agile
7 52 (40.00%) Data Engineering
7 52 (40.00%) Data Strategy
8 45 (34.62%) Asset Management
8 45 (34.62%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (30.77%) ETL
11 39 (30.00%) Data Privacy
12 38 (29.23%) Matrix Organization
13 32 (24.62%) Data Lineage
13 32 (24.62%) Logical Data Model
13 32 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (23.08%) Physical Data Model
15 29 (22.31%) Data Transformation
15 29 (22.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 54 (41.54%) SQL
2 42 (32.31%) Python
3 6 (4.62%) Java
4 4 (3.08%) R
5 3 (2.31%) Scala
6 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.54%) Ruby
6 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.54%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.77%) C#
7 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.77%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 31 (23.85%) Degree
2 25 (19.23%) Azure Certification
3 21 (16.15%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.38%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) CFA
7 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) MBA
7 1 (0.77%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (67.69%) Data Quality
2 41 (31.54%) QA
3 26 (20.00%) Accessibility
4 10 (7.69%) GDPR
5 6 (4.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.54%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.77%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.77%) EMIR
7 1 (0.77%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (1.54%) HDFS
1 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.54%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 45 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) Databricks
3 11 (8.46%) Google
4 10 (7.69%) Informatica
5 4 (3.08%) Oracle
5 4 (3.08%) SAP
6 3 (2.31%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco
6 3 (2.31%) iManage
6 3 (2.31%) Talend
7 2 (1.54%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.54%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.54%) MapR
7 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.77%) ESRI
8 1 (0.77%) IBM
8 1 (0.77%) Nintex
8 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.77%) Sparx