Metadata Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Metadata
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.19% - 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% - 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £27,500
75th Percentile £48,750 - £28,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £63,000 £49,479 £80,000
% change year-on-year +27.33% -38.15% +33.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 56 99 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.32% 16.20% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23 85 183
10th Percentile £38,300 - £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,000 £67,000
South East median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Metadata
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Metadata

Metadata
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 March 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
Abingdon - 1 - - 1
Metadata
South East

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Google Tag Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Airbyte
1 1 (50.00%) Data Hub
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Blog
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Competitor Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Content Writing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Link Building
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Ahrefs
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Screaming Frog