Metadata Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Metadata
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 151 191
Rank change year-on-year -16 +40 -25
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 21 49 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.31% 1.30% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.45% 7.35% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 9
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,725 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,188 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,283 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% +35.80% -54.03%
75th Percentile £78,750 £60,283 £71,250
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £68,500 £55,565 £38,500
% change year-on-year +23.28% +44.32% -53.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 472 667 742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.94% 17.70% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 341 292 472
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £87,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year - +1.38% -5.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Metadata

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Buckinghamshire +8 12 £76,250 +58.03% 12
Oxfordshire - 6 £45,000 - 4
Berkshire -25 3 £82,500 +48.47% 6
Metadata
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (19.05%) Google Analytics
3 4 (19.05%) Google Tag Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) AWS
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 3 (14.29%) Star Schema
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 8 (38.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (38.10%) Law
3 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (19.05%) Marketing
5 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Finance
6 2 (9.52%) Retail
7 1 (4.76%) Banking
7 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Architect
2 7 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 4 (19.05%) SEO Executive
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Blog
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) e-Learning
3 1 (4.76%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) LIMS
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Data Modelling
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Data Architecture
4 9 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 9 (42.86%) Scrum
5 8 (38.10%) Analytics
5 8 (38.10%) Community of Practice
5 8 (38.10%) Data Strategy
5 8 (38.10%) Logical Data Model
5 8 (38.10%) Physical Data Model
5 8 (38.10%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (33.33%) ETL
6 7 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
7 6 (28.57%) Data Management
8 5 (23.81%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (23.81%) AI
8 5 (23.81%) Digital Strategy
9 4 (19.05%) Content Writing
9 4 (19.05%) Mobile Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Degree
2 7 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) ICAEW
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (9.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (4.76%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Ahrefs
1 4 (19.05%) Google
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) Screaming Frog
2 3 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Informatica
3 2 (9.52%) Talend
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle