Metadata Job Trends in Southampton

Metadata
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 42 68
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 -
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 3 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.31% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.05% 3.03% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £38,500
75th Percentile £57,500 - £39,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +114.29% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 74 33 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 7.75% 8.23% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 67 23 100
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £71,000 £58,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,128 £64,500 £73,875
Hampshire median annual salary £57,500 £54,400 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% +8.80% -6.54%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Southampton

Metadata
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Metadata

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Power Query
1 3 (100.00%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Business Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft