Metadata Jobs in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 523 594
Rank change year-on-year -15 +71 -26
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 238 245 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.93% 2.07% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 134 149 134
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,300 £40,500
25th Percentile £52,325 £50,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% +8.91%
75th Percentile £90,313 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,962 £100,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,313 11,831 16,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.49% 19.29% 22.85%
Number of salaries quoted 8,187 6,933 10,431
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +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 5 May 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 5 May 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
Scotland -9 70 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Midlands +37 57 £54,650 -0.64% 10
West Midlands +39 53 £55,000 -6.38% 8
North of England +46 51 £70,000 +3.70% 12
South East -15 42 £85,000 +41.67% 11
North West +23 31 £92,778 +78.42% 7
South West -47 14 £68,937 +14.42% 7
Yorkshire +75 12 £62,500 -16.11% 5
North East -6 8 £42,625 -7.34%
East Midlands -10 4 £50,000 +11.45% 2
East of England +4 3 £31,000 -43.64% 7
Wales +6 1 £47,500 -18.10% 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 7 (2.94%) Confluence
1 7 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.52%) SAS
3 1 (0.42%) Apache
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
3 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.42%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
1 4 (1.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 66 (27.73%) Azure
2 41 (17.23%) Power Platform
3 27 (11.34%) Snowflake
4 25 (10.50%) Matillion
5 18 (7.56%) Serverless
6 14 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (5.88%) Collibra
7 12 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (4.62%) AWS
9 9 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.36%) GCP
11 7 (2.94%) SaaS
12 5 (2.10%) GitHub
13 4 (1.68%) Alation
13 4 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.68%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (1.68%) Google Docs
13 4 (1.68%) Google Sheets
14 3 (1.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.31%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.07%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 41 (17.23%) Power BI
4 15 (6.30%) Relational Database
4 15 (6.30%) SQL Server
4 15 (6.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (5.46%) Big Data
6 11 (4.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 5 (2.10%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.68%) Data Hub
9 4 (1.68%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.26%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.26%) MariaDB
10 3 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.26%) SAS EBI
11 2 (0.84%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 74 (31.09%) Git
2 70 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 66 (27.73%) Bitbucket
4 65 (27.31%) Artifactory
5 10 (4.20%) JIRA
6 5 (2.10%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
General
1 129 (54.20%) Finance
2 79 (33.19%) Marketing
3 70 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (28.57%) Law
5 46 (19.33%) Social Skills
6 40 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (9.66%) Banking
8 12 (5.04%) Legal
9 9 (3.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.52%) Billing
11 5 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.68%) Wearables
13 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.84%) Publishing
15 1 (0.42%) Electronics
15 1 (0.42%) Games
15 1 (0.42%) Local Government
15 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 86 (36.13%) Architect
1 86 (36.13%) Data Architect
2 80 (33.61%) Lead
3 67 (28.15%) Software Engineer
4 65 (27.31%) Lead Software Engineer
5 64 (26.89%) Senior
6 42 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (10.08%) Data Engineer
8 17 (7.14%) Senior Architect
8 17 (7.14%) Senior Data Architect
9 15 (6.30%) Analyst
10 14 (5.88%) Data Analyst
10 14 (5.88%) Enterprise Architect
10 14 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 10 (4.20%) Azure Data Engineer
11 10 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.20%) Data Manager
12 7 (2.94%) Consultant
13 6 (2.52%) Lead Architect
13 6 (2.52%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (27.73%) JSON
1 66 (27.73%) XML
2 65 (27.31%) JSON-LD
2 65 (27.31%) LDAP
2 65 (27.31%) OpenID
2 65 (27.31%) RESTful
2 65 (27.31%) SAML
2 65 (27.31%) Web Services
3 3 (1.26%) Kafka
4 1 (0.42%) EDI
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.42%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.42%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 110 (46.22%) Management Information System
2 66 (27.73%) Reference Data
3 65 (27.31%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (4.20%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.78%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.36%) Blog
7 6 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.52%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.52%) NHS
8 5 (2.10%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.68%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.68%) Photography
10 3 (1.26%) Life Science
10 3 (1.26%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.84%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.84%) PACS
11 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.84%) Social Media
12 1 (0.42%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.94%) Windows
2 3 (1.26%) Linux
2 3 (1.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 130 (54.62%) Agile
3 103 (43.28%) Data Pipeline
4 86 (36.13%) Data Management
5 83 (34.87%) Data Architecture
6 82 (34.45%) Analytics
7 81 (34.03%) Metadata Management
7 81 (34.03%) Roadmaps
7 81 (34.03%) SDLC
8 74 (31.09%) CI/CD
9 72 (30.25%) Software Engineering
9 72 (30.25%) Use Case
10 70 (29.41%) Data Transformation
11 69 (28.99%) Information Architecture
12 68 (28.57%) Data Design
13 66 (27.73%) Continuous Delivery
13 66 (27.73%) Ontologies
14 65 (27.31%) Identity Access Management
14 65 (27.31%) RDF
14 65 (27.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.31%) Go
1 65 (27.31%) Prolog
1 65 (27.31%) SPARQL
2 62 (26.05%) SQL
3 39 (16.39%) T-SQL
4 7 (2.94%) Python
5 2 (0.84%) Ladder Logic
5 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.84%) R
6 1 (0.42%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (5.04%) Degree
2 4 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) HND
5 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (29.83%) Data Quality
2 48 (20.17%) GDPR
3 4 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
System Software
1 65 (27.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (16.39%) Databricks
2 28 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.04%) Google
4 10 (4.20%) Oracle
5 9 (3.78%) Informatica
6 4 (1.68%) Adobe
6 4 (1.68%) Talend
7 2 (0.84%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.84%) Siemens
8 1 (0.42%) ESRI
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.42%) Sparx