Metadata Jobs in the UK excluding London

Metadata
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 469 538 544
Rank change year-on-year +69 +6 +53
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 108 235 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 1.90% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 49 132 131
10th Percentile £42,882 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,325 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +3.74% +0.42%
75th Percentile £70,000 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £100,000 £101,185
UK median annual salary £66,367 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +7.69% -10.34%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,507 12,381 11,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.45% 16.60% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,809 8,108 6,590
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,850 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,394 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.03% -11.54% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London 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
South East +107 55 £65,000 -23.53% 216
Midlands +47 23 £65,000 +18.18% 121
West Midlands +22 22 £65,000 +13.04% 64
South West +104 12 £66,367 -3.73% 75
North of England +13 11 £65,000 -11.86% 157
North West -13 8 £70,000 -30.00% 76
Scotland +54 5 £34,131 -43.12% 33
Yorkshire +49 2 £53,250 -11.25% 59
Wales +47 1 £55,000 +15.79% 17
East Midlands +43 1 £42,500 -15.00% 49
North East +41 1 £47,500 +11.76% 23
Isle of Man - 1 - - 3
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UK

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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 (4.63%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.78%) Apache
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.93%) Maximo
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (47.22%) Azure
2 34 (31.48%) AWS
3 33 (30.56%) GCP
4 28 (25.93%) Power Platform
5 26 (24.07%) Snowflake
6 14 (12.96%) Salsify
7 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (8.33%) Collibra
8 7 (6.48%) SaaS
9 5 (4.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.85%) H2O.ai
11 2 (1.85%) IaaS
11 2 (1.85%) Lucidchart
11 2 (1.85%) PaaS
11 2 (1.85%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.85%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.85%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) ADSL2
1 2 (1.85%) Intranet
2 1 (0.93%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (40.74%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (26.85%) Data Lake
3 27 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
4 26 (24.07%) Power BI
5 16 (14.81%) SQL Server
6 10 (9.26%) Data Hub
6 10 (9.26%) Tableau
7 7 (6.48%) Ataccama
8 6 (5.56%) Big Data
8 6 (5.56%) Hadoop
8 6 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (4.63%) SQL CLR
10 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.70%) BigQuery
10 4 (3.70%) MySQL
10 4 (3.70%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.78%) Looker
11 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) ERwin
2 5 (4.63%) JIRA
3 4 (3.70%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.85%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.93%) Git
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 40 (37.04%) Law
3 28 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (25.93%) Finance
4 20 (18.52%) Legal
5 17 (15.74%) Retail
6 14 (12.96%) Marketing
7 13 (12.04%) Banking
8 9 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (4.63%) Back Office
11 4 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
11 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.78%) Advertising
12 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (45.37%) Senior
2 43 (39.81%) Lead
3 14 (12.96%) Senior Manager
4 10 (9.26%) Architect
5 9 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 9 (8.33%) Data Manager
6 8 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Developer
7 7 (6.48%) Senior Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Developer
8 5 (4.63%) SaaS Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Microsoft Developer
8 5 (4.63%) Senior SQL Developer
8 5 (4.63%) SQL Developer
9 4 (3.70%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Data Quality Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.70%) Quality Manager
10 3 (2.78%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) PySpark
2 4 (3.70%) EDI
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Jena
3 2 (1.85%) Kafka
3 2 (1.85%) XML
4 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.93%) NumPy
4 1 (0.93%) Pandas
4 1 (0.93%) Plotly
4 1 (0.93%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.93%) Shiny
4 1 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.37%) Management Information System
2 15 (13.89%) Taxonomies
3 5 (4.63%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.85%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.85%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.85%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.85%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.85%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.93%) Blog
7 1 (0.93%) FMCG
7 1 (0.93%) Life Science
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Linux
1 3 (2.78%) Unix
2 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (71.30%) Data Management
2 73 (67.59%) Metadata Management
3 65 (60.19%) Analytics
4 55 (50.93%) Data Modelling
5 52 (48.15%) Data Governance
6 42 (38.89%) Data Architecture
7 41 (37.96%) Matrix Organization
8 37 (34.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (33.33%) ETL
10 35 (32.41%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (32.41%) Data Engineering
10 35 (32.41%) Data Transformation
11 33 (30.56%) Agile
12 32 (29.63%) Data Pipeline
12 32 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (28.70%) Data Stewardship
14 29 (26.85%) Validation
15 28 (25.93%) Data Strategy
16 27 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
17 25 (23.15%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (51.85%) SQL
2 39 (36.11%) Python
3 7 (6.48%) T-SQL
4 6 (5.56%) Java
5 3 (2.78%) Bash
5 3 (2.78%) C++
6 2 (1.85%) C
6 2 (1.85%) Fortran
6 2 (1.85%) Go
6 2 (1.85%) R
6 2 (1.85%) Ruby
6 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.85%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.93%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (33.33%) Degree
2 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.78%) CITP
6 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.85%) PhD
6 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) CFA
7 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) MBA
7 1 (0.93%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (68.52%) Data Quality
2 40 (37.04%) QA
3 28 (25.93%) Accessibility
4 14 (12.96%) GDPR
5 7 (6.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.85%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.78%) HDFS
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 5 (4.63%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.85%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.93%) Kibana
4 1 (0.93%) logstash
4 1 (0.93%) Oozie
4 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.11%) Oracle
3 10 (9.26%) Informatica
4 9 (8.33%) Databricks
5 6 (5.56%) Google
6 5 (4.63%) VMware
7 3 (2.78%) SAP
7 3 (2.78%) Sparx
7 3 (2.78%) Talend
8 2 (1.85%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.85%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.85%) MapR
9 1 (0.93%) ESRI
9 1 (0.93%) IBM
9 1 (0.93%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow