Metadata Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 674 675
Rank change year-on-year +183 +1 +89
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 82 85 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 21 76 53
10th Percentile £43,290 £50,000 £47,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £60,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +33.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £96,539 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £121,150
UK median annual salary £63,750 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.31% +28.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,295 59,625 57,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.88% 84.00% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,237 41,241 29,486
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Metadata Management in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +114 46 £102,500 +20.59% 25
South West +113 12 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Scotland +128 8 - - 2
Midlands +58 7 £62,500 +2.04% 2
North of England +40 7 £87,283 -5.92% 6
West Midlands +53 6 £62,500 +4.17% 2
North West -11 4 - - 1
Yorkshire +61 3 £87,283 +45.47% 5
Wales - 2 £66,250 - 4
East Midlands +44 1 £42,500 -32.00%
Metadata Management
UK

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.66%) Apache
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (9.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Smart View
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.02%) Azure
2 31 (37.80%) AWS
3 26 (31.71%) GCP
4 23 (28.05%) Snowflake
5 17 (20.73%) Power Platform
6 14 (17.07%) Salsify
7 10 (12.20%) Collibra
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.44%) H2O.ai
9 2 (2.44%) IaaS
9 2 (2.44%) PaaS
9 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.44%) SaaS
9 2 (2.44%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (100.00%) Metadata
2 34 (41.46%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (32.93%) Data Lake
4 18 (21.95%) Metadata Repository
5 15 (18.29%) Power BI
6 9 (10.98%) Ataccama
7 8 (9.76%) Tableau
8 6 (7.32%) Data Vault
8 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.66%) Airbyte
9 3 (3.66%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (3.66%) Spark SQL
9 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.44%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.44%) Data Mart
10 2 (2.44%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.44%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.44%) MySQL
10 2 (2.44%) Pentaho
10 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.22%) JIRA
General
1 39 (47.56%) Social Skills
2 37 (45.12%) Law
3 25 (30.49%) Finance
4 21 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (18.29%) Legal
5 15 (18.29%) Retail
6 14 (17.07%) Marketing
7 13 (15.85%) Banking
8 8 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (6.10%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (47.56%) Senior
2 36 (43.90%) Lead
3 16 (19.51%) Senior Manager
4 13 (15.85%) Architect
5 10 (12.20%) Data Manager
6 8 (9.76%) Data Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) Data Architect
7 7 (8.54%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (7.32%) Lead Architect
8 6 (7.32%) Lead Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.88%) Analyst
9 4 (4.88%) Data Quality Manager
9 4 (4.88%) Quality Manager
10 2 (2.44%) Data Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Data Migration Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Data Quality Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (2.44%) Quality Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) PySpark
2 3 (3.66%) NumPy
2 3 (3.66%) Pandas
2 3 (3.66%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Jena
3 2 (2.44%) Kafka
3 2 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.61%) Management Information System
2 14 (17.07%) Taxonomies
3 5 (6.10%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.66%) NHS
5 2 (2.44%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Linux
1 3 (3.66%) Ubuntu
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (87.80%) Data Management
2 61 (74.39%) Analytics
3 49 (59.76%) Data Governance
4 42 (51.22%) Data Modelling
5 39 (47.56%) Data Architecture
6 38 (46.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (43.90%) Agile
8 35 (42.68%) Matrix Organization
9 33 (40.24%) Data Engineering
10 28 (34.15%) ETL
10 28 (34.15%) Roadmaps
11 27 (32.93%) Master Data Management
12 26 (31.71%) Data Transformation
13 25 (30.49%) Artificial Intelligence
13 25 (30.49%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (30.49%) Data Stewardship
13 25 (30.49%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (29.27%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (28.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.90%) SQL
2 33 (40.24%) Python
3 4 (4.88%) Java
4 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.66%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.44%) Ruby
5 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.44%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (34.15%) Degree
2 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.66%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.22%) CFA
4 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (84.15%) Data Quality
2 34 (41.46%) QA
3 24 (29.27%) Accessibility
4 10 (12.20%) GDPR
5 5 (6.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (2.44%) Dublin Core
7 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.22%) IFRS
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) HDFS
1 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.88%) Databricks
2 4 (4.88%) Google
3 3 (3.66%) Informatica
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle
3 3 (3.66%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.44%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.44%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.44%) MapR
4 2 (2.44%) StreamSets
4 2 (2.44%) Talend
5 1 (1.22%) SAP