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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 480 572
Rank change year-on-year -48 +92 +8
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 179 202 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.42% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.90% 2.15% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 109 130 190
10th Percentile £37,250 £40,000 £41,503
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,249 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.41% -4.37% +14.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,627 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,118 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +3.70%

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 9,401 9,414 17,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.40% 19.55% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,708 6,273 10,171
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
North of England +30 49 £70,000 +16.18% 7
Scotland -10 49 £67,500 +12.04%
North West +20 36 £100,000 +65.98% 4
Midlands -28 35 £60,000 -
West Midlands -8 33 £59,300 -5.12%
South East -10 31 £38,500 -53.33% 5
South West -46 14 £38,500 -36.10% 9
Yorkshire +54 8 £46,965 -36.96% 3
North East -14 5 £42,500 +7.90%
East Midlands -30 2 £76,250 +45.61%
East of England -11 1 £62,000 +12.73% 2
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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 8 (4.47%) Confluence
1 8 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.93%) Azure
2 30 (16.76%) Power Platform
3 26 (14.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (5.03%) AWS
5 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.03%) Collibra
5 9 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.03%) Snowflake
6 8 (4.47%) Matillion
7 7 (3.91%) SaaS
8 6 (3.35%) GitHub
9 4 (2.23%) Alation
9 4 (2.23%) Serverless
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (24.58%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.05%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (16.76%) Power BI
3 29 (16.20%) Data Lake
4 20 (11.17%) SQL Server
5 17 (9.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (8.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 14 (7.82%) Big Data
7 14 (7.82%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 7 (3.91%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (3.35%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.35%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.23%) OLAP
12 3 (1.68%) Oracle OLAP
12 3 (1.68%) SAS EBI
13 2 (1.12%) Ataccama
14 1 (0.56%) Data Hub
14 1 (0.56%) Power Query
14 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 51 (28.49%) Git
2 44 (24.58%) Artifactory
2 44 (24.58%) Bitbucket
2 44 (24.58%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.47%) JIRA
General
1 118 (65.92%) Finance
2 69 (38.55%) Marketing
3 49 (27.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (24.58%) Law
5 18 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.06%) Social Skills
6 10 (5.59%) Banking
6 10 (5.59%) Legal
7 9 (5.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Billing
9 2 (1.12%) Local Government
9 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.12%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Electronics
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (28.49%) Architect
1 51 (28.49%) Data Architect
1 51 (28.49%) Senior
2 49 (27.37%) Lead
3 46 (25.70%) Software Engineer
4 44 (24.58%) Lead Software Engineer
5 31 (17.32%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (12.29%) Data Engineer
7 21 (11.73%) CRM Executive
8 13 (7.26%) Azure Data Engineer
8 13 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) Senior Architect
9 12 (6.70%) Senior Data Architect
10 8 (4.47%) Analyst
10 8 (4.47%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.91%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.35%) Consultant
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Data Consultant
13 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (24.58%) JSON
1 44 (24.58%) JSON-LD
1 44 (24.58%) LDAP
1 44 (24.58%) OpenID
1 44 (24.58%) RESTful
1 44 (24.58%) SAML
1 44 (24.58%) Web Services
1 44 (24.58%) XML
2 8 (4.47%) PySpark
3 2 (1.12%) SPFx
4 1 (0.56%) EDI
4 1 (0.56%) Kafka
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 78 (43.58%) Management Information System
2 45 (25.14%) Reference Data
3 44 (24.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (5.59%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.47%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.47%) NHS
6 6 (3.35%) Blog
7 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.23%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.68%) Taxonomies
10 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.12%) PACS
11 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.56%) Genomics
11 1 (0.56%) Life Science
11 1 (0.56%) Molecular Biology
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (66.48%) Data Modelling
2 99 (55.31%) Agile
3 72 (40.22%) Data Governance
3 72 (40.22%) Roadmaps
4 67 (37.43%) CI/CD
5 64 (35.75%) Data Pipeline
6 63 (35.20%) Analytics
6 63 (35.20%) SDLC
7 62 (34.64%) Metadata Management
8 55 (30.73%) Data Architecture
9 54 (30.17%) Data Management
10 52 (29.05%) Data Transformation
11 49 (27.37%) Business Intelligence
12 48 (26.82%) Information Architecture
12 48 (26.82%) Use Case
13 47 (26.26%) Data Strategy
14 46 (25.70%) Software Engineering
15 45 (25.14%) Continuous Delivery
15 45 (25.14%) DevOps
15 45 (25.14%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 44 (24.58%) Go
1 44 (24.58%) Prolog
1 44 (24.58%) SPARQL
1 44 (24.58%) SQL
2 23 (12.85%) T-SQL
3 7 (3.91%) Python
4 2 (1.12%) Ladder Logic
4 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.56%) C#
5 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (4.47%) Degree
2 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (54.19%) Data Quality
2 29 (16.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) GRC
4 2 (1.12%) IEC 61131
4 2 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 44 (24.58%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.32%) Databricks
3 21 (11.73%) Salesforce
4 14 (7.82%) Informatica
5 8 (4.47%) Oracle
6 4 (2.23%) Talend
7 2 (1.12%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (1.12%) Siemens
8 1 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.56%) Sparx