Metadata Jobs in London

Metadata
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 374 371
Rank change year-on-year +96 -3 +61
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 125 143 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.97% 0.57% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.51% 2.62% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 51 83 155
10th Percentile £40,903 £39,500 £49,041
25th Percentile £50,750 £60,000 £55,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £114,250 £124,000
England median annual salary £68,750 £68,937 £67,500
% change year-on-year -0.27% +2.13% -6.90%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,774 5,456 7,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.62% 21.86% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,794 3,990 5,420
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,813 £57,500 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £117,262
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in London

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Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Metadata in London

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Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
Central London +39 33 £55,000 -31.25% 52
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.40%) nginx
4 2 (1.60%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.40%) Adobe After Effects
2 3 (2.40%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (2.40%) CapCut
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.40%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 58 (46.40%) Azure
2 46 (36.80%) Power Platform
3 43 (34.40%) AWS
4 32 (25.60%) GCP
5 21 (16.80%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (14.40%) Collibra
7 9 (7.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (6.40%) SaaS
9 7 (5.60%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.80%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.80%) PowerApps
11 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (4.00%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.20%) Serverless
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.40%) Canva
13 3 (2.40%) GitHub
13 3 (2.40%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (32.00%) Power BI
2 27 (21.60%) Data Lake
3 18 (14.40%) Tableau
4 15 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
6 10 (8.00%) Big Data
6 10 (8.00%) NoSQL
7 9 (7.20%) Hadoop
7 9 (7.20%) IBM InfoSphere
8 8 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.40%) Data Hub
8 8 (6.40%) SQL CLR
8 8 (6.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (6.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (5.60%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.80%) BigQuery
11 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (2.40%) Data Mining
12 2 (1.60%) Power Query
12 2 (1.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) Babel
2 3 (2.40%) gulp
2 3 (2.40%) webpack
3 1 (0.80%) Ant
3 1 (0.80%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.80%) ERwin
3 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (44.80%) Finance
2 39 (31.20%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (23.20%) Social Skills
4 26 (20.80%) Law
5 25 (20.00%) Banking
5 25 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (16.80%) Financial Institution
6 21 (16.80%) Retail Banking
7 19 (15.20%) Marketing
8 14 (11.20%) Legal
9 8 (6.40%) Back Office
10 5 (4.00%) Publishing
11 3 (2.40%) Fire and Rescue
11 3 (2.40%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.60%) Electronics
12 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.80%) Front Office
13 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) Architect
2 35 (28.00%) Data Architect
3 30 (24.00%) Lead
4 17 (13.60%) Senior
5 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Analyst
8 9 (7.20%) Data Steward
8 9 (7.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Developer
9 8 (6.40%) SaaS Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 8 (6.40%) Senior SQL Developer
9 8 (6.40%) SQL Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Product Lead
11 5 (4.00%) Principal Data Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Salesforce Analyst
11 5 (4.00%) Strategy Architect
11 5 (4.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.80%) Kafka
2 4 (3.20%) HTML
2 4 (3.20%) PySpark
3 3 (2.40%) CSS
3 3 (2.40%) Node.js
3 3 (2.40%) OAuth
3 3 (2.40%) React
3 3 (2.40%) REST
3 3 (2.40%) Sass
3 3 (2.40%) Svelte
3 3 (2.40%) Vue
4 2 (1.60%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.60%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.60%) XML
4 2 (1.60%) XSD
4 2 (1.60%) XSLT
5 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.80%) JSON
5 1 (0.80%) XML Schema
5 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.20%) FMCG
1 14 (11.20%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.00%) Taxonomies
3 9 (7.20%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.40%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.40%) Private Cloud
5 6 (4.80%) Smart City
6 5 (4.00%) Reference Data
6 5 (4.00%) Social Media
7 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.40%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.40%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.40%) iPhone
8 3 (2.40%) Video Editing
9 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.80%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Windows
2 3 (2.40%) Android
2 3 (2.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.40%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (49.60%) Metadata Management
2 61 (48.80%) Data Modelling
3 53 (42.40%) Data Governance
3 53 (42.40%) Data Management
4 42 (33.60%) Data Privacy
5 40 (32.00%) Analytics
6 39 (31.20%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (31.20%) Data Architecture
7 37 (29.60%) Agile
8 35 (28.00%) Decision-Making
9 34 (27.20%) Migration
10 32 (25.60%) Asset Management
10 32 (25.60%) Data Strategy
11 30 (24.00%) Business Development
11 30 (24.00%) Data Lineage
11 30 (24.00%) Logical Data Model
12 29 (23.20%) Data Analytics
12 29 (23.20%) Physical Data Model
13 28 (22.40%) Data Engineering
14 25 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) SQL
2 19 (15.20%) Python
3 8 (6.40%) R
3 8 (6.40%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.00%) Scala
5 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.40%) Java
7 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.60%) XQuery
8 1 (0.80%) Bicep
8 1 (0.80%) C#
8 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (18.40%) Azure Certification
2 21 (16.80%) AWS Certification
3 11 (8.80%) Degree
4 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (35.20%) Data Quality
2 13 (10.40%) GDPR
3 10 (8.00%) Accessibility
4 9 (7.20%) QA
5 1 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.80%) EMIR
5 1 (0.80%) MiFID
System Software
1 8 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.40%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (1.60%) Terraform
3 1 (0.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (55.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.40%) Databricks
2 18 (14.40%) Informatica
3 14 (11.20%) Google
4 9 (7.20%) IBM
5 8 (6.40%) VMware
6 6 (4.80%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.00%) Alteryx
7 5 (4.00%) Pega
7 5 (4.00%) SAP
7 5 (4.00%) YouTube
8 3 (2.40%) Adobe
8 3 (2.40%) Cisco
8 3 (2.40%) iManage
9 2 (1.60%) Pinterest
9 2 (1.60%) Snapchat
9 2 (1.60%) TikTok
10 1 (0.80%) Nintex
10 1 (0.80%) Sparx