Metadata Job Trends in London

Metadata
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 271 380
Rank change year-on-year +45 +109 -15
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 185 120 146
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 0.99% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.76% 4.59% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64 48 83
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,903 £40,850
25th Percentile £61,250 £48,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -10.94% +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £114,250
England median annual salary £70,932 £66,367 £68,714
% change year-on-year +6.88% -3.41% +0.02%

All Database & 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 2,384 2,614 5,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.25% 21.64% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 1,763 3,914
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,400
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,338 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in London

Metadata
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Metadata

Metadata
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Metadata in London

Metadata
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 8 June 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
East London - 21 £95,000 - 3
West London - 13 £75,000 - 1
Central London -20 10 £95,000 +72.73% 20
South London - 9 £48,975 -
Metadata
England

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 18 (9.73%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (8.11%) Apache
3 11 (5.95%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 9 (4.86%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.16%) CMS
5 4 (2.16%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 45 (24.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.54%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 34 (18.38%) Workfront
2 1 (0.54%) HFM
2 1 (0.54%) Relativity
2 1 (0.54%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 54 (29.19%) AWS
1 54 (29.19%) Azure
2 45 (24.32%) iPaaS
3 41 (22.16%) GCP
4 20 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 18 (9.73%) Amazon S3
6 14 (7.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
7 10 (5.41%) Snowflake
8 9 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.86%) Serverless
9 8 (4.32%) Collibra
10 6 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.24%) dbt
11 5 (2.70%) Adobe Analytics
11 5 (2.70%) Google Analytics
12 4 (2.16%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (2.16%) Dagster
12 4 (2.16%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.62%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 64 (34.59%) Broadband
2 2 (1.08%) 4G
2 2 (1.08%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.14%) Data Lake
2 25 (13.51%) Tableau
3 17 (9.19%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (9.19%) Power BI
4 16 (8.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (7.57%) Relational Database
6 13 (7.03%) Apache Iceberg
7 12 (6.49%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (5.95%) Delta Lake
9 10 (5.41%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.78%) Amazon QuickSight
10 7 (3.78%) RDBMS
11 6 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.70%) Data Vault
12 5 (2.70%) Looker
12 5 (2.70%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.62%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.49%) Git
2 9 (4.86%) ERwin
3 3 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.54%) git-flow
5 1 (0.54%) Postman
General
1 54 (29.19%) Finance
2 47 (25.41%) Marketing
2 47 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 46 (24.86%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.43%) Financial Institution
5 17 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 14 (7.57%) Law
8 12 (6.49%) Banking
9 8 (4.32%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.16%) Billing
11 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.16%) Retail
12 3 (1.62%) Legal
13 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.08%) Publishing
13 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (20.54%) Architect
2 34 (18.38%) Data Architect
2 34 (18.38%) Product Owner
3 33 (17.84%) Senior
4 26 (14.05%) Data Engineer
4 26 (14.05%) Lead
5 17 (9.19%) Analyst
6 13 (7.03%) Consultant
7 12 (6.49%) Data Analyst
7 12 (6.49%) Data Consultant
7 12 (6.49%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (3.78%) Data Model Consultant
8 7 (3.78%) Lead Data Engineer
8 7 (3.78%) Senior Architect
8 7 (3.78%) Senior Data Architect
9 6 (3.24%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.24%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.24%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.19%) Kafka
2 14 (7.57%) PyTorch
3 13 (7.03%) TensorFlow
4 11 (5.95%) PySpark
5 7 (3.78%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (3.78%) FpML
5 7 (3.78%) JSON
5 7 (3.78%) XML
5 7 (3.78%) XML Schema
6 4 (2.16%) REST
7 3 (1.62%) Keras
7 3 (1.62%) SPFx
8 2 (1.08%) React
9 1 (0.54%) FFmpeg
9 1 (0.54%) OpenAPI
9 1 (0.54%) Ray
9 1 (0.54%) RESTful
9 1 (0.54%) Swagger
9 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (27.57%) Product Ownership
1 51 (27.57%) Social Media
2 45 (24.32%) Marketing Technology
2 45 (24.32%) Over-the-Top Content
3 17 (9.19%) Cloud Native
3 17 (9.19%) Data Structures
4 14 (7.57%) e-Learning
5 12 (6.49%) Video\Live Streaming
6 10 (5.41%) Reference Data
7 9 (4.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.16%) Anti-Piracy
9 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.16%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.54%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (50.81%) Agile
2 75 (40.54%) Analytics
2 75 (40.54%) Data Modelling
3 73 (39.46%) Data Governance
4 66 (35.68%) Roadmaps
5 62 (33.51%) Metadata Management
6 55 (29.73%) Personalization
6 55 (29.73%) Workflow
7 54 (29.19%) Decision-Making
8 53 (28.65%) Data Architecture
8 53 (28.65%) User Stories
9 48 (25.95%) Customer Experience
9 48 (25.95%) Product Management
10 46 (24.86%) Matrix Organization
11 45 (24.32%) Ideation Sessions
11 45 (24.32%) Product Backlog
11 45 (24.32%) Product Requirements
11 45 (24.32%) Product Vision
11 45 (24.32%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 45 (24.32%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.73%) Python
2 53 (28.65%) SQL
3 12 (6.49%) Scala
4 10 (5.41%) Java
5 7 (3.78%) Bash
6 5 (2.70%) C++
7 4 (2.16%) R
8 3 (1.62%) C#
8 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.54%) Bicep
9 1 (0.54%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (13.51%) Degree
2 21 (11.35%) Azure Certification
3 17 (9.19%) AWS Certification
4 15 (8.11%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.11%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.41%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.62%) MBA
8 2 (1.08%) CISA
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.08%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.54%) CBAP
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.54%) PhD
9 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (30.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.86%) GDPR
3 5 (2.70%) QA
4 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.62%) Solvency II
6 2 (1.08%) IFRS
6 2 (1.08%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (2.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.86%) Terraform
2 3 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.08%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.54%) Control-M
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 50 (27.03%) Adobe
2 25 (13.51%) Databricks
3 21 (11.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.86%) Google
5 8 (4.32%) Informatica
5 8 (4.32%) Sparx
6 4 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.62%) Dell
7 3 (1.62%) NVIDIA
7 3 (1.62%) Oracle
7 3 (1.62%) Talend
8 2 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.08%) FactSet
8 2 (1.08%) IBM
8 2 (1.08%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.08%) SAP
8 2 (1.08%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.54%) BMC
9 1 (0.54%) Foundry
9 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow