Metadata Management Job Trends in England

Metadata Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 590 547
Rank change year-on-year +129 -43 +190
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 156 89 133
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.20% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 74 44 64
10th Percentile £47,000 - £61,625
25th Percentile £53,563 £47,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -17.19% +23.08%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,929 £96,539
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,250 £108,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -21.88% +23.66%

All Process & 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 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in England

Metadata Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metadata Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
London +94 98 £85,000 +41.67% 27
Midlands +36 21 £65,500 +0.77% 4
South East +47 20 £49,000 -24.31% 22
West Midlands +30 16 £66,500 +2.31% 3
North of England +6 10 £53,000 -43.40% 16
North West +15 5 £53,000 -47.00% 6
East Midlands - 5 £42,500 - 1
South West +14 4 £52,600 +16.89% 4
Yorkshire -10 4 £65,000 -25.53% 6
East of England - 2 £87,500 - 5
North East - 1 £70,932 - 4
Metadata Management
UK

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.49%) Apache
4 6 (3.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 9 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (4.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.74%) AWS
2 59 (37.82%) Azure
3 42 (26.92%) GCP
4 19 (12.18%) Amazon S3
4 19 (12.18%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (7.05%) H2O.ai
5 11 (7.05%) OpenShift
6 9 (5.77%) Snowflake
7 8 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
8 7 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
9 6 (3.85%) Serverless
10 5 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.21%) Cloud Composer
10 5 (3.21%) GitHub
11 4 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.56%) Collibra
11 4 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.49%) WebEx
2 1 (0.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (100.00%) Metadata
2 62 (39.74%) Data Lake
3 28 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (12.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (11.54%) Tableau
6 16 (10.26%) Power BI
7 10 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (6.41%) Big Data
8 9 (5.77%) Amazon QuickSight
8 9 (5.77%) NoSQL
9 8 (5.13%) Hadoop
10 7 (4.49%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
12 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.56%) DataStage
13 4 (2.56%) Delta Lake
13 4 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (2.56%) QlikView
13 4 (2.56%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.92%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 8 (5.13%) ER Studio
2 6 (3.85%) ERwin
2 6 (3.85%) Git
3 5 (3.21%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.64%) MLflow
General
1 65 (41.67%) Finance
2 54 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 50 (32.05%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (23.08%) Banking
5 33 (21.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (19.23%) Retail Banking
7 26 (16.67%) Financial Institution
8 17 (10.90%) Law
9 12 (7.69%) Legal
9 12 (7.69%) Manufacturing
10 11 (7.05%) Public Sector
11 8 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (3.21%) Retail
14 3 (1.92%) Publishing
15 2 (1.28%) Marketing
16 1 (0.64%) Billing
16 1 (0.64%) Electronics
16 1 (0.64%) Front Office
16 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (35.26%) Architect
2 50 (32.05%) Data Architect
3 33 (21.15%) Lead
4 24 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 18 (11.54%) Senior
6 8 (5.13%) Data Manager
7 7 (4.49%) Governance Manager
7 7 (4.49%) IT Trainer
7 7 (4.49%) Lead Data Engineer
7 7 (4.49%) Legal IT Trainer
7 7 (4.49%) Product Lead
7 7 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (4.49%) Trainer
8 6 (3.85%) Data Governance Analyst
8 6 (3.85%) Data Governance Manager
9 5 (3.21%) Analyst
10 4 (2.56%) Consultant
10 4 (2.56%) Data Analyst
10 4 (2.56%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.90%) Kafka
2 11 (7.05%) Keras
2 11 (7.05%) PyTorch
2 11 (7.05%) TensorFlow
3 10 (6.41%) FHIR
4 9 (5.77%) PySpark
5 6 (3.85%) REST
6 3 (1.92%) EDI
6 3 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.92%) SPFx
7 2 (1.28%) .NET
7 2 (1.28%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.64%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.64%) JSON
8 1 (0.64%) Pandas
8 1 (0.64%) Plotly
8 1 (0.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.74%) Management Information System
2 16 (10.26%) Life Science
3 11 (7.05%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.41%) Algorithms
4 10 (6.41%) Omics
5 8 (5.13%) FMCG
5 8 (5.13%) Product Ownership
6 7 (4.49%) e-Learning
6 7 (4.49%) iPhone
7 6 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.85%) Reinsurance
7 6 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.21%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.21%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.56%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.92%) Blog
10 3 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.92%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.49%) Android
1 7 (4.49%) Windows
1 7 (4.49%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (58.33%) Data Governance
2 87 (55.77%) Data Modelling
3 85 (54.49%) Analytics
4 80 (51.28%) Data Architecture
5 76 (48.72%) Data Management
6 59 (37.82%) Data Strategy
7 49 (31.41%) Data Pipeline
8 48 (30.77%) Agile
9 47 (30.13%) Business Intelligence
10 46 (29.49%) ETL
11 40 (25.64%) Machine Learning
12 39 (25.00%) Decision-Making
13 38 (24.36%) Business Development
13 38 (24.36%) Data Engineering
14 37 (23.72%) AI
15 36 (23.08%) Logical Data Model
16 35 (22.44%) Migration
17 34 (21.79%) DevOps
17 34 (21.79%) Physical Data Model
18 31 (19.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (21.79%) SQL
2 25 (16.03%) Python
3 11 (7.05%) Scala
4 6 (3.85%) Bash
5 4 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.92%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.28%) Bicep
7 2 (1.28%) C#
8 1 (0.64%) C++
8 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.64%) R
8 1 (0.64%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 44 (28.21%) Degree
2 32 (20.51%) Azure Certification
3 28 (17.95%) AWS Certification
4 17 (10.90%) Master's Degree
5 16 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.41%) PhD
7 9 (5.77%) Security Cleared
8 8 (5.13%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.56%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.56%) SnowPro
10 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.64%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (10.26%) Accessibility
3 14 (8.97%) GDPR
4 11 (7.05%) QA
5 10 (6.41%) CDISC
5 10 (6.41%) GxP
5 10 (6.41%) HL7
6 3 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.28%) IFRS
7 2 (1.28%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.28%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (10.26%) Terraform
2 3 (1.92%) Control-M
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (29.49%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.51%) Databricks
3 11 (7.05%) Dell
3 11 (7.05%) NVIDIA
4 10 (6.41%) Informatica
5 9 (5.77%) SAP
6 7 (4.49%) Cisco
6 7 (4.49%) IBM
6 7 (4.49%) iManage
7 5 (3.21%) Google
8 4 (2.56%) Oracle
9 3 (1.92%) Avid
9 3 (1.92%) BMC
9 3 (1.92%) Talend
9 3 (1.92%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.28%) Sparx
11 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.64%) OneTrust
11 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.64%) Teradata