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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 326 285
Rank change year-on-year +104 -41 +103
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 159 102 160
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 0.66% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.69% 2.83% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 84 40 86
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £53,125
25th Percentile £51,175 £47,500 £59,623
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -14.38% +4.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,625 £120,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -13.79% +7.41%

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 2,377 3,608 3,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 16.85% 23.26% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,559 2,185 3,168
10th Percentile £42,750 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £56,839
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Central London +40 18 £85,000 +70.00% 12
West London +12 15 £47,000 -30.37% 2
South London +42 3 £48,975 - 7
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 11 (6.92%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (6.92%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.77%) Apache
4 2 (1.26%) nginx
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.89%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.63%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 77 (48.43%) Azure
2 65 (40.88%) AWS
3 47 (29.56%) GCP
4 24 (15.09%) Power Platform
5 15 (9.43%) Amazon S3
6 11 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (6.29%) Snowflake
8 9 (5.66%) H2O.ai
8 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (5.66%) OpenShift
9 8 (5.03%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (4.40%) Serverless
11 6 (3.77%) GitHub
12 5 (3.14%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.14%) Cloud Composer
12 5 (3.14%) dbt
12 5 (3.14%) Google Analytics
12 5 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) WebEx
2 2 (1.26%) BGP
2 2 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.26%) Firewall
2 2 (1.26%) MQTT
2 2 (1.26%) OSPF
2 2 (1.26%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.26%) RTMP
2 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.26%) VLAN
2 2 (1.26%) VPN
2 2 (1.26%) WAN
2 2 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (35.22%) Data Lake
2 37 (23.27%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (15.72%) Tableau
4 20 (12.58%) Power BI
5 19 (11.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (9.43%) SQL Server
7 14 (8.81%) Relational Database
8 13 (8.18%) BigQuery
9 10 (6.29%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (6.29%) Big Data
9 10 (6.29%) Data Vault
9 10 (6.29%) Oracle Database
10 9 (5.66%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (5.03%) Hadoop
11 8 (5.03%) NoSQL
12 6 (3.77%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (3.77%) Looker
13 4 (2.52%) DataStage
13 4 (2.52%) Delta Lake
13 4 (2.52%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 8 (5.03%) ER Studio
2 7 (4.40%) Git
3 6 (3.77%) ERwin
4 5 (3.14%) JIRA
4 5 (3.14%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (1.89%) MLflow
6 2 (1.26%) GitLab
6 2 (1.26%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (44.03%) Finance
2 64 (40.25%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (35.85%) Social Skills
4 41 (25.79%) Banking
5 34 (21.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (18.87%) Retail Banking
7 27 (16.98%) Financial Institution
8 19 (11.95%) Law
9 18 (11.32%) Legal
10 12 (7.55%) Manufacturing
11 11 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (5.03%) Public Sector
12 8 (5.03%) Retail
13 7 (4.40%) Marketing
14 4 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.89%) Publishing
16 2 (1.26%) Agriculture
16 2 (1.26%) Music Industry
16 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
17 1 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 51 (32.08%) Architect
2 49 (30.82%) Data Architect
3 34 (21.38%) Data Engineer
4 22 (13.84%) Lead
5 20 (12.58%) Analyst
6 19 (11.95%) Senior
7 12 (7.55%) Data Analyst
8 9 (5.66%) Lead Data Engineer
9 7 (4.40%) Product Lead
9 7 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Product Analyst
12 4 (2.52%) Consultant
12 4 (2.52%) Data Consultant
12 4 (2.52%) Governance Consultant
12 4 (2.52%) IT Trainer
12 4 (2.52%) Legal IT Trainer
12 4 (2.52%) Senior Consultant
12 4 (2.52%) Test Engineer
12 4 (2.52%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.69%) Kafka
2 9 (5.66%) Keras
2 9 (5.66%) PyTorch
2 9 (5.66%) TensorFlow
3 6 (3.77%) PySpark
4 3 (1.89%) REST
4 3 (1.89%) SPFx
5 2 (1.26%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.26%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.26%) WebRTC
6 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.63%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.63%) JSON
6 1 (0.63%) Pandas
6 1 (0.63%) Plotly
6 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.69%) Management Information System
2 13 (8.18%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.03%) FMCG
4 8 (5.03%) Reference Data
5 7 (4.40%) Taxonomies
6 6 (3.77%) Reinsurance
7 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.52%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.52%) iPhone
8 4 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.89%) Blog
9 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.89%) Podcast
9 3 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.52%) Android
1 4 (2.52%) Windows
1 4 (2.52%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (61.64%) Metadata Management
2 82 (51.57%) Data Modelling
3 78 (49.06%) Data Management
4 77 (48.43%) Data Governance
5 74 (46.54%) Analytics
6 70 (44.03%) Data Architecture
7 61 (38.36%) Data Pipeline
8 53 (33.33%) Data Strategy
9 50 (31.45%) ETL
10 45 (28.30%) Business Intelligence
11 44 (27.67%) Data Engineering
12 43 (27.04%) Migration
13 41 (25.79%) Agile
14 38 (23.90%) Logical Data Model
15 36 (22.64%) Business Development
16 35 (22.01%) Physical Data Model
17 33 (20.75%) AI
18 31 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (18.87%) Asset Management
19 30 (18.87%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.56%) SQL
2 30 (18.87%) Python
3 9 (5.66%) Scala
4 6 (3.77%) Bash
5 5 (3.14%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.52%) Java
7 3 (1.89%) R
8 1 (0.63%) C++
8 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.63%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 45 (28.30%) Degree
2 32 (20.13%) Azure Certification
3 28 (17.61%) AWS Certification
4 18 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (11.32%) Master's Degree
5 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.55%) Security Cleared
6 9 (5.66%) CISSP
6 9 (5.66%) MCSE
6 9 (5.66%) OCP
6 9 (5.66%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (2.52%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.52%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.52%) SnowPro
8 2 (1.26%) MBA
9 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.63%) ISACA
9 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (39.62%) Data Quality
2 19 (11.95%) GDPR
3 15 (9.43%) QA
4 11 (6.92%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.26%) IFRS
5 2 (1.26%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) FATCA
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.26%) Docker
1 2 (1.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (7.55%) Terraform
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.26%) Ansible
3 2 (1.26%) Argo
3 2 (1.26%) Grafana
3 2 (1.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.26%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.63%) Control-M
Vendors
1 53 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 32 (20.13%) Databricks
3 11 (6.92%) Google
4 10 (6.29%) Oracle
5 9 (5.66%) Dell
5 9 (5.66%) NVIDIA
6 8 (5.03%) SAP
7 7 (4.40%) Informatica
8 6 (3.77%) Cisco
8 6 (3.77%) IBM
9 5 (3.14%) Adobe
10 4 (2.52%) iManage
11 3 (1.89%) Avid
11 3 (1.89%) ESRI
12 2 (1.26%) MikroTik
12 2 (1.26%) NETGEAR
12 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.26%) Talend
12 2 (1.26%) Ubiquiti