Metadata Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Metadata
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.16% - 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.02% - 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £30,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £65,000 - £30,000
% change year-on-year - - -45.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 99 255 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.69% 17.57% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 85 135 91
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £84,000 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £53,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -10.38% -4.50% +0.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Metadata

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Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Watford - 1 £60,000 -
Metadata
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) H2O.ai
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Connection
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Event Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) OLAP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) MDX
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Presales
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA