Metadata Job Trends in England

Metadata
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 412 568
Rank change year-on-year +20 +156 -107
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 380 264 291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.61% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.85% 3.87% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 189 101 214
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,903 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,752 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,001 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,250 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,367 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -1.68% +3.85%

All Database & 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 7,827 6,816 14,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.94% 15.73% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,324 4,534 10,486
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,369 £46,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,743 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.22% +5.64% -8.00%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in England

Metadata
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Metadata

Metadata
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Metadata in England

Metadata
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 16 July 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 +18 191 £85,000 +9.68% 72
South East -18 53 £71,250 +9.62% 46
North of England -8 45 £62,500 +31.58% 10
East of England +7 25 £37,500 - 7
Midlands -27 22 £68,486 +5.36% 6
Yorkshire -17 20 £57,500 -4.17% 5
South West -49 20 £70,752 +6.61% 8
West Midlands -36 18 £67,000 +3.08% 4
North West +1 15 £70,000 - 4
North East -50 10 £76,250 +60.53% 1
East Midlands -36 4 £75,000 +76.47% 2
Metadata
UK

Metadata
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 23 (6.05%) Apache Spark
2 22 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (5.26%) Apache
4 16 (4.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 14 (3.68%) SharePoint
6 9 (2.37%) SAS
7 8 (2.11%) CMS
8 4 (1.05%) WordPress
9 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 53 (13.95%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 5 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 39 (10.26%) Workfront
2 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.53%) HFM
4 1 (0.26%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 127 (33.42%) Azure
2 98 (25.79%) AWS
3 55 (14.47%) GCP
4 53 (13.95%) iPaaS
5 44 (11.58%) Power Platform
6 36 (9.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 34 (8.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 28 (7.37%) Amazon S3
8 28 (7.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (6.84%) Google Analytics
9 26 (6.84%) Snowflake
10 20 (5.26%) Collibra
11 16 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.68%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (3.16%) dbt
14 11 (2.89%) Google Ads
14 11 (2.89%) Serverless
15 8 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 82 (21.58%) Broadband
2 2 (0.53%) 4G
2 2 (0.53%) 5G
3 1 (0.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (16.58%) Data Lake
2 56 (14.74%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (9.47%) Power BI
4 34 (8.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 26 (6.84%) Delta Lake
6 22 (5.79%) Tableau
7 20 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (4.74%) Big Data
9 17 (4.47%) Data Vault
10 16 (4.21%) MySQL
11 15 (3.95%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.95%) Relational Database
12 13 (3.42%) NoSQL
12 13 (3.42%) SQL Server
13 12 (3.16%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (2.89%) DynamoDB
14 11 (2.89%) MongoDB
15 10 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
16 9 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (3.42%) Git
2 10 (2.63%) ERwin
3 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.79%) MLflow
5 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.26%) git-flow
5 1 (0.26%) JIRA
5 1 (0.26%) Maven
5 1 (0.26%) Postman
5 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 108 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 89 (23.42%) Marketing
3 81 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (19.21%) Finance
5 46 (12.11%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (6.84%) Law
7 21 (5.53%) Retail
8 18 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (4.47%) Financial Institution
10 13 (3.42%) Legal
11 8 (2.11%) Automotive
12 6 (1.58%) Local Government
12 6 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.05%) Banking
14 4 (1.05%) Billing
14 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 111 (29.21%) Architect
2 97 (25.53%) Data Architect
3 70 (18.42%) Senior
4 60 (15.79%) Lead
5 44 (11.58%) Data Engineer
6 42 (11.05%) Product Owner
7 36 (9.47%) Senior Architect
8 32 (8.42%) Senior Data Architect
9 29 (7.63%) Consultant
10 27 (7.11%) Data Consultant
11 19 (5.00%) Analyst
12 18 (4.74%) Senior Data Engineer
13 14 (3.68%) Data Manager
14 13 (3.42%) Data Analyst
14 13 (3.42%) Professional Services Consultant
14 13 (3.42%) SEO Specialist
15 12 (3.16%) SEO Executive
16 10 (2.63%) Developer
16 10 (2.63%) Lead Architect
16 10 (2.63%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.53%) PySpark
1 21 (5.53%) PyTorch
2 20 (5.26%) Kafka
2 20 (5.26%) TensorFlow
3 18 (4.74%) JSON
4 13 (3.42%) XML
5 12 (3.16%) HTML
5 12 (3.16%) React
6 11 (2.89%) CSS
7 8 (2.11%) .NET
8 7 (1.84%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (1.84%) FpML
8 7 (1.84%) XML Schema
9 5 (1.32%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.32%) ASP.NET
9 5 (1.32%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (1.32%) SPFx
9 5 (1.32%) XBRL
10 4 (1.05%) Keras
11 3 (0.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 75 (19.74%) Product Ownership
2 64 (16.84%) Social Media
3 54 (14.21%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (14.21%) Over-the-Top Content
4 42 (11.05%) Cloud Native
5 24 (6.32%) Algorithms
6 20 (5.26%) Data Structures
7 18 (4.74%) Video\Live Streaming
8 17 (4.47%) Onboarding
8 17 (4.47%) Taxonomies
9 15 (3.95%) Distributed Computing
9 15 (3.95%) e-Learning
9 15 (3.95%) Reference Data
10 14 (3.68%) Management Information System
11 12 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (2.63%) Data Centre
13 8 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (2.11%) Driving Licence
13 8 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.58%) Anti-Piracy
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (44.74%) Data Modelling
2 168 (44.21%) Analytics
3 158 (41.58%) Data Governance
4 139 (36.58%) Metadata Management
5 134 (35.26%) Agile
6 128 (33.68%) Roadmaps
7 123 (32.37%) AI
8 118 (31.05%) Data Architecture
9 106 (27.89%) Decision-Making
10 86 (22.63%) Data Strategy
11 77 (20.26%) CI/CD
12 74 (19.47%) Data Engineering
12 74 (19.47%) Digital Marketing
13 73 (19.21%) ETL
13 73 (19.21%) Workflow
14 70 (18.42%) Personalization
15 67 (17.63%) Customer Experience
16 65 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
16 65 (17.11%) Data Management
17 60 (15.79%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 103 (27.11%) SQL
2 92 (24.21%) Python
3 22 (5.79%) Scala
4 15 (3.95%) Java
5 12 (3.16%) C#
6 11 (2.89%) Bicep
7 10 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.84%) C++
10 5 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.05%) PHP
12 2 (0.53%) Bash
12 2 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.53%) R
12 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.26%) Go
13 1 (0.26%) Groovy
13 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (12.89%) Degree
2 42 (11.05%) Security Cleared
3 26 (6.84%) Azure Certification
4 25 (6.58%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (2.37%) CIPD
8 9 (2.37%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.11%) SnowPro
10 7 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.32%) CISA
12 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.26%) CBAP
13 1 (0.26%) CCA
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.26%) PhD
13 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
13 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (39.74%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.21%) GDPR
3 15 (3.95%) QA
4 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.05%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.79%) IFRS
6 3 (0.79%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.53%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
8 1 (0.26%) PERC
System Software
1 8 (2.11%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (7.37%) Terraform
2 7 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.53%) Ansible
3 2 (0.53%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 63 (16.58%) Databricks
2 58 (15.26%) Microsoft
3 56 (14.74%) Adobe
4 47 (12.37%) Google
5 19 (5.00%) Informatica
5 19 (5.00%) Oracle
6 11 (2.89%) SAP
7 10 (2.63%) Screaming Frog
8 9 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.84%) Sparx
10 6 (1.58%) Ahrefs
10 6 (1.58%) Talend
11 5 (1.32%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.05%) Dell
12 4 (1.05%) NVIDIA
13 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.53%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.53%) Refinitiv
14 2 (0.53%) Sitecore
14 2 (0.53%) WooCommerce