Metadata Jobs in the South East

Metadata
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 364 335
Rank change year-on-year +107 -29 +135
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 55 36 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 0.21% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 1.33% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7 33 24
10th Percentile £47,009 £47,000 £48,125
25th Percentile £50,848 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +1.49% +42.55%
75th Percentile £86,875 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £106,212
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,937 £65,689
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.95% -12.42%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,201 2,709 2,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.46% 15.45% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 685 2,003 1,653
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £87,500
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 the South East

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the South East.

Salary trend for Metadata in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Thames Valley +104 42 £55,565 -17.68% 81
Berkshire - 40 £55,565 - 53
Surrey - 5 £115,000 - 14
Middlesex - 4 £90,000 -
Buckinghamshire +24 2 - - 20
Hampshire +52 1 £82,500 -5.71% 24
Kent - 1 £65,000 - 17
East Sussex - 1 - - 7
West Sussex - 1 £42,500 - 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Maximo
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (58.18%) Azure
2 31 (56.36%) AWS
3 29 (52.73%) GCP
4 24 (43.64%) Snowflake
5 14 (25.45%) Salsify
6 5 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) H2O.ai
7 2 (3.64%) IaaS
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (3.64%) PaaS
7 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.64%) SaaS
7 2 (3.64%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.82%) Alation
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.82%) Collibra
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (50.91%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (47.27%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (5.45%) Big Data
4 3 (5.45%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.45%) Power BI
4 3 (5.45%) Tableau
5 2 (3.64%) Apache Hive
5 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.64%) Bigtable
5 2 (3.64%) HBase
5 2 (3.64%) Impala
5 2 (3.64%) MySQL
5 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.64%) Pentaho
5 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.64%) Spark SQL
5 2 (3.64%) Triplestore
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) ER Studio
General
1 40 (72.73%) Law
2 22 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (32.73%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (29.09%) Legal
5 14 (25.45%) Marketing
6 8 (14.55%) Retail
7 2 (3.64%) Finance
7 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (74.55%) Senior
2 25 (45.45%) Lead
3 14 (25.45%) Senior Manager
4 6 (10.91%) Architect
4 6 (10.91%) Data Architect
4 6 (10.91%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Records Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Scientific Software Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Software Developer
7 1 (1.82%) Junior
7 1 (1.82%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Apache Jena
1 2 (3.64%) PySpark
1 2 (3.64%) XML
2 1 (1.82%) Kafka
2 1 (1.82%) NumPy
2 1 (1.82%) Pandas
2 1 (1.82%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Management Information System
2 14 (25.45%) Taxonomies
3 3 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.64%) Acoustics
4 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.64%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (3.64%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (87.27%) Metadata Management
2 45 (81.82%) Analytics
3 43 (78.18%) Data Management
4 38 (69.09%) Matrix Organization
5 34 (61.82%) Data Modelling
6 32 (58.18%) Data Governance
7 31 (56.36%) Data Architecture
8 28 (50.91%) Data Engineering
8 28 (50.91%) Data Transformation
9 27 (49.09%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (49.09%) ETL
10 26 (47.27%) Validation
11 25 (45.45%) Master Data Management
12 24 (43.64%) Anomaly Detection
12 24 (43.64%) Asset Management
12 24 (43.64%) Data Stewardship
12 24 (43.64%) Data Strategy
12 24 (43.64%) Data Validation
12 24 (43.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (43.64%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 34 (61.82%) Python
1 34 (61.82%) SQL
2 5 (9.09%) Java
3 3 (5.45%) C++
4 2 (3.64%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) C
4 2 (3.64%) Fortran
4 2 (3.64%) Ruby
4 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.64%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (54.55%) Degree
2 5 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) PhD
4 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.82%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (76.36%) Data Quality
2 28 (50.91%) QA
3 26 (47.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.64%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) HDFS
1 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Google
3 3 (5.45%) Informatica
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Talend
4 2 (3.64%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.64%) Dataiku
4 2 (3.64%) MapR
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) ESRI
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow