Metadata Jobs in England

Metadata
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 548 503
Rank change year-on-year +83 -45 -15
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 228 311 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.32% 2.02% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 99 213 285
10th Percentile £41,181 £38,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,424 £55,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £68,937 £65,689
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +4.95% -12.42%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £66,367 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +7.69% -10.34%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,871 15,424 18,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.03% 17.24% 21.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4,405 11,436 11,746
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,394 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.03% -11.54% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in England

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Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Metadata in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in England

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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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 +94 124 £72,500 -9.38% 127
South East +107 55 £65,000 -23.53% 216
Midlands +47 23 £65,000 +18.18% 121
West Midlands +22 22 £65,000 +13.04% 64
South West +104 12 £66,367 -3.73% 75
North of England +13 11 £65,000 -11.86% 157
North West -13 8 £70,000 -30.00% 76
Yorkshire +49 2 £53,250 -11.25% 59
East Midlands +43 1 £42,500 -15.00% 49
North East +41 1 £47,500 +11.76% 23
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UK

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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 12 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.32%) nginx
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) SAS
4 2 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (7.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.51%) Adobe After Effects
3 8 (3.51%) Adobe Premiere
3 8 (3.51%) CapCut
3 8 (3.51%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.44%) Maximo
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 106 (46.49%) Azure
2 74 (32.46%) AWS
3 66 (28.95%) Power Platform
4 63 (27.63%) GCP
5 30 (13.16%) Snowflake
6 28 (12.28%) Collibra
7 26 (11.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (6.58%) SaaS
9 14 (6.14%) Salsify
10 10 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (4.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.51%) Canva
12 8 (3.51%) Dropbox
12 8 (3.51%) Google Drive
12 8 (3.51%) Power Automate
12 8 (3.51%) PowerApps
13 7 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) WebEx
2 2 (0.88%) ADSL2
2 2 (0.88%) Intranet
3 1 (0.44%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (25.44%) Power BI
2 54 (23.68%) Data Lake
2 54 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (12.28%) Metadata Repository
4 26 (11.40%) Tableau
5 25 (10.96%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.46%) Data Hub
7 14 (6.14%) Big Data
7 14 (6.14%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.70%) Hadoop
9 12 (5.26%) SQL CLR
9 12 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 12 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (4.39%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.95%) IBM InfoSphere
11 9 (3.95%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.07%) Ataccama
13 6 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.63%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.07%) ERwin
1 7 (3.07%) Git
2 5 (2.19%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.75%) JIRA
4 3 (1.32%) Babel
4 3 (1.32%) gulp
4 3 (1.32%) webpack
5 2 (0.88%) Ant
5 2 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 75 (32.89%) Finance
2 70 (30.70%) Social Skills
3 63 (27.63%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (27.63%) Law
4 39 (17.11%) Marketing
5 38 (16.67%) Banking
6 34 (14.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (13.60%) Legal
8 21 (9.21%) Financial Institution
8 21 (9.21%) Retail Banking
9 18 (7.89%) Retail
10 13 (5.70%) Back Office
11 8 (3.51%) Public Sector
12 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (2.19%) Publishing
15 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.32%) Advertising
16 3 (1.32%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 70 (30.70%) Lead
2 66 (28.95%) Senior
3 44 (19.30%) Architect
4 41 (17.98%) Data Architect
5 21 (9.21%) Data Engineer
6 18 (7.89%) Developer
7 14 (6.14%) Senior Developer
7 14 (6.14%) Senior Manager
8 12 (5.26%) Analyst
8 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
8 12 (5.26%) SaaS Developer
8 12 (5.26%) Senior Microsoft Developer
8 12 (5.26%) Senior SQL Developer
8 12 (5.26%) SQL Developer
9 9 (3.95%) Data Manager
9 9 (3.95%) Data Steward
9 9 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (2.19%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (2.19%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.39%) Kafka
2 8 (3.51%) PySpark
3 4 (1.75%) EDI
3 4 (1.75%) HTML
3 4 (1.75%) XML
4 3 (1.32%) CSS
4 3 (1.32%) Node.js
4 3 (1.32%) OAuth
4 3 (1.32%) React
4 3 (1.32%) Regular Expression
4 3 (1.32%) REST
4 3 (1.32%) Sass
4 3 (1.32%) Svelte
4 3 (1.32%) Vue
5 2 (0.88%) Apache Jena
5 2 (0.88%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.88%) XSD
5 2 (0.88%) XSLT
6 1 (0.44%) JSON
6 1 (0.44%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.47%) Management Information System
2 24 (10.53%) Taxonomies
3 12 (5.26%) FMCG
3 12 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 12 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.82%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.39%) Social Media
6 9 (3.95%) Reference Data
7 8 (3.51%) Graphic Design
7 8 (3.51%) Video Editing
8 6 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.63%) Smart City
8 6 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 5 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.19%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (1.32%) iPhone
10 3 (1.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.63%) Linux
2 5 (2.19%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.32%) Android
4 3 (1.32%) Unix
4 3 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (56.58%) Metadata Management
2 127 (55.70%) Data Management
3 111 (48.68%) Data Modelling
4 102 (44.74%) Data Governance
5 96 (42.11%) Analytics
6 79 (34.65%) Data Architecture
7 69 (30.26%) Agile
8 66 (28.95%) Data Privacy
9 65 (28.51%) Business Intelligence
10 62 (27.19%) Data Strategy
11 61 (26.75%) Data Engineering
12 60 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (24.56%) Asset Management
14 50 (21.93%) ETL
15 49 (21.49%) Data Pipeline
16 47 (20.61%) Data Lineage
17 45 (19.74%) Migration
18 41 (17.98%) Matrix Organization
19 40 (17.54%) Artificial Intelligence
20 38 (16.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 86 (37.72%) SQL
2 57 (25.00%) Python
3 13 (5.70%) T-SQL
4 8 (3.51%) Java
4 8 (3.51%) R
5 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.75%) Scala
6 3 (1.32%) Bash
6 3 (1.32%) C++
7 2 (0.88%) C
7 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.88%) Fortran
7 2 (0.88%) Go
7 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.88%) Ruby
7 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.88%) SPARQL
7 2 (0.88%) XQuery
8 1 (0.44%) Bicep
8 1 (0.44%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (20.18%) Degree
2 26 (11.40%) Azure Certification
3 22 (9.65%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.32%) CITP
9 2 (0.88%) PhD
9 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CFA
10 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.44%) MBA
10 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (49.56%) Data Quality
2 46 (20.18%) QA
3 37 (16.23%) Accessibility
4 24 (10.53%) GDPR
5 8 (3.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.88%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.44%) EMIR
7 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.32%) HDFS
4 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.88%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (0.88%) Terraform
4 1 (0.44%) Kibana
4 1 (0.44%) logstash
4 1 (0.44%) Oozie
Vendors
1 90 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.16%) Informatica
3 23 (10.09%) Google
4 22 (9.65%) Databricks
5 12 (5.26%) Oracle
5 12 (5.26%) VMware
6 10 (4.39%) IBM
7 8 (3.51%) Adobe
8 7 (3.07%) SAP
9 6 (2.63%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.19%) YouTube
11 4 (1.75%) Sparx
12 3 (1.32%) Alteryx
12 3 (1.32%) Cisco
12 3 (1.32%) iManage
12 3 (1.32%) Pega
12 3 (1.32%) Talend
13 2 (0.88%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.88%) MapR
13 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow