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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 527 517
Rank change year-on-year +65 -10 -47
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 229 317 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.37% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.31% 2.09% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 95 218 302
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £55,035 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -10.96%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £100,000 £107,375
UK median annual salary £66,367 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +7.69% -7.14%

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 6,914 15,184 19,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.31% 17.70% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,748 11,430 12,188
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -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 10 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 10 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 +87 130 £70,000 -6.67% 183
South East +110 51 £55,565 -34.63% 58
Midlands +32 21 £65,000 +18.18% 17
West Midlands +22 20 £66,250 +20.45% 14
North of England +21 14 £70,000 -1.75% 37
South West +110 12 £45,000 -34.72% 10
North West -8 10 £70,000 -24.55% 18
Yorkshire +52 4 £73,642 +22.74% 9
East Midlands +42 1 £42,500 -15.00% 3
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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 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.31%) nginx
6 2 (0.87%) Apache
6 2 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (7.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (3.93%) Adobe After Effects
4 9 (3.93%) Adobe Premiere
4 9 (3.93%) CapCut
4 9 (3.93%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (43.23%) Azure
2 73 (31.88%) AWS
3 64 (27.95%) Power Platform
4 61 (26.64%) GCP
5 29 (12.66%) Collibra
5 29 (12.66%) Snowflake
6 26 (11.35%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (6.11%) Salsify
8 12 (5.24%) SaaS
9 11 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.93%) Canva
10 9 (3.93%) Dropbox
10 9 (3.93%) Google Drive
11 8 (3.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.49%) Power Automate
11 8 (3.49%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.18%) WebEx
2 1 (0.44%) HTTP
2 1 (0.44%) Intranet
2 1 (0.44%) Multicast
2 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (24.45%) Power BI
2 53 (23.14%) Data Lake
2 53 (23.14%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (12.23%) Metadata Repository
4 26 (11.35%) Tableau
5 25 (10.92%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.42%) NoSQL
7 15 (6.55%) Data Hub
8 12 (5.24%) Big Data
9 11 (4.80%) Hadoop
9 11 (4.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (4.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (4.37%) SQL CLR
11 9 (3.93%) Ataccama
11 9 (3.93%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.93%) IBM InfoSphere
11 9 (3.93%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.06%) Data Vault
13 6 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (2.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Git
2 5 (2.18%) ERwin
3 3 (1.31%) Babel
3 3 (1.31%) ER Studio
3 3 (1.31%) gulp
3 3 (1.31%) webpack
4 2 (0.87%) JIRA
4 2 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.44%) Ant
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
General
1 82 (35.81%) Finance
2 80 (34.93%) Social Skills
3 66 (28.82%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (24.89%) Law
5 41 (17.90%) Banking
5 41 (17.90%) Marketing
6 33 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (13.97%) Legal
8 23 (10.04%) Financial Institution
8 23 (10.04%) Retail Banking
9 18 (7.86%) Retail
10 10 (4.37%) Back Office
10 10 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.49%) Manufacturing
12 7 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (3.06%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.18%) Publishing
14 4 (1.75%) Advertising
14 4 (1.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 69 (30.13%) Lead
2 61 (26.64%) Senior
3 47 (20.52%) Architect
4 39 (17.03%) Data Architect
5 21 (9.17%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.99%) Developer
6 16 (6.99%) Senior Manager
7 13 (5.68%) Data Manager
8 12 (5.24%) Analyst
8 12 (5.24%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.37%) Microsoft Developer
9 10 (4.37%) SaaS Developer
9 10 (4.37%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 10 (4.37%) Senior SQL Developer
9 10 (4.37%) SQL Developer
10 9 (3.93%) Data Steward
10 9 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (3.49%) Enterprise Architect
12 6 (2.62%) Lead Architect
12 6 (2.62%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.37%) Kafka
2 7 (3.06%) PySpark
3 4 (1.75%) HTML
3 4 (1.75%) XML
4 3 (1.31%) CSS
4 3 (1.31%) Node.js
4 3 (1.31%) NumPy
4 3 (1.31%) OAuth
4 3 (1.31%) Pandas
4 3 (1.31%) React
4 3 (1.31%) REST
4 3 (1.31%) Sass
4 3 (1.31%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (1.31%) Svelte
4 3 (1.31%) Vue
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Jena
5 2 (0.87%) GraphQL
5 2 (0.87%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.87%) XSD
5 2 (0.87%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.85%) Management Information System
2 23 (10.04%) Taxonomies
3 12 (5.24%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.80%) Reference Data
4 11 (4.80%) Social Media
5 10 (4.37%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.93%) Graphic Design
6 9 (3.93%) Video Editing
7 7 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.06%) Smart City
7 7 (3.06%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.62%) FMCG
8 6 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.18%) e-Learning
9 5 (2.18%) iPhone
10 4 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.31%) Freedom of Information
11 3 (1.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.93%) Linux
1 9 (3.93%) Windows
2 6 (2.62%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.18%) Android
3 5 (2.18%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (61.14%) Metadata Management
2 138 (60.26%) Data Management
3 111 (48.47%) Data Modelling
4 102 (44.54%) Data Governance
5 92 (40.17%) Analytics
6 79 (34.50%) Data Architecture
7 76 (33.19%) Agile
8 72 (31.44%) Business Intelligence
9 65 (28.38%) Data Privacy
10 63 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (26.20%) Data Strategy
12 55 (24.02%) Asset Management
13 54 (23.58%) Data Engineering
14 50 (21.83%) ETL
15 44 (19.21%) Logical Data Model
16 43 (18.78%) Artificial Intelligence
16 43 (18.78%) Data Lineage
16 43 (18.78%) Data Pipeline
16 43 (18.78%) Migration
17 42 (18.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.50%) SQL
2 55 (24.02%) Python
3 13 (5.68%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.06%) Java
4 7 (3.06%) R
5 4 (1.75%) C++
5 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.31%) C
6 3 (1.31%) Scala
7 2 (0.87%) Bash
7 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.87%) Fortran
7 2 (0.87%) Go
7 2 (0.87%) Ruby
7 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.87%) SPARQL
7 2 (0.87%) XQuery
8 1 (0.44%) Bicep
8 1 (0.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (19.21%) Degree
2 26 (11.35%) Azure Certification
3 23 (10.04%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.24%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) PhD
9 1 (0.44%) CFA
9 1 (0.44%) CITP
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (49.78%) Data Quality
2 37 (16.16%) QA
3 35 (15.28%) Accessibility
4 25 (10.92%) GDPR
5 8 (3.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.87%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.44%) EMIR
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) HDFS
3 2 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.37%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.31%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (41.05%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.23%) Informatica
3 24 (10.48%) Google
4 17 (7.42%) Databricks
5 10 (4.37%) Oracle
5 10 (4.37%) VMware
6 9 (3.93%) Adobe
6 9 (3.93%) IBM
7 7 (3.06%) SAP
8 5 (2.18%) Cisco
8 5 (2.18%) iManage
8 5 (2.18%) YouTube
9 3 (1.31%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.87%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.87%) MapR
10 2 (0.87%) Pinterest
10 2 (0.87%) Snapchat
10 2 (0.87%) StreamSets