Metadata Jobs in the UK excluding London

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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 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 465 527 527
Rank change year-on-year +62 0 +77
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 108 240 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.33% 1.95% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 44 137 142
10th Percentile £43,290 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,848 £52,325 £50,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +3.74% +9.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £66,367 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +7.69% -7.14%

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 4,640 12,301 11,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.87% 17.33% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,042 8,166 6,762
10th Percentile £32,544 £32,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £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 £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -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 11 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 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 +112 51 £55,565 -34.63% 62
Midlands +25 21 £65,000 +18.18% 17
West Midlands +23 20 £66,250 +17.78% 14
North of England +25 14 £70,000 -1.75% 38
South West +106 12 £45,000 -34.72% 11
North West -19 10 £70,000 -24.55% 18
Scotland +60 8 - - 13
Yorkshire +58 4 £73,642 +22.74% 10
Wales +40 2 £66,250 +39.47% 5
East Midlands +41 1 £42,500 -15.00% 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 6 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.78%) Apache
3 3 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
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 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (41.67%) Azure
2 33 (30.56%) AWS
3 29 (26.85%) GCP
4 26 (24.07%) Power Platform
5 25 (23.15%) Snowflake
6 14 (12.96%) Salsify
7 10 (9.26%) Collibra
8 9 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (6.48%) SaaS
10 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (37.96%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 26 (24.07%) Metadata Repository
4 24 (22.22%) Power BI
5 16 (14.81%) SQL Server
6 10 (9.26%) Data Hub
6 10 (9.26%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.26%) Tableau
7 9 (8.33%) Ataccama
8 6 (5.56%) Data Vault
8 6 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (4.63%) Big Data
9 5 (4.63%) Hadoop
9 5 (4.63%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.63%) SQL CLR
10 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.78%) Airbyte
11 3 (2.78%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (3.70%) ERwin
2 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 2 (1.85%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.85%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (45.37%) Social Skills
2 37 (34.26%) Law
3 32 (29.63%) Finance
4 26 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (16.67%) Legal
6 17 (15.74%) Retail
7 15 (13.89%) Banking
8 14 (12.96%) Marketing
9 8 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (4.63%) Back Office
12 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
14 3 (2.78%) Advertising
15 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (42.59%) Senior
2 44 (40.74%) Lead
3 16 (14.81%) Senior Manager
4 13 (12.04%) Architect
5 11 (10.19%) Data Manager
6 9 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.48%) Developer
7 7 (6.48%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (6.48%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Lead Architect
8 6 (5.56%) Lead Enterprise Architect
9 5 (4.63%) Analyst
9 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Developer
9 5 (4.63%) SaaS Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Senior SQL Developer
9 5 (4.63%) SQL Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Data Quality Manager
10 4 (3.70%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.70%) PySpark
2 3 (2.78%) Kafka
2 3 (2.78%) NumPy
2 3 (2.78%) Pandas
2 3 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (1.85%) Apache Jena
3 2 (1.85%) EDI
3 2 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.37%) Management Information System
2 14 (12.96%) Taxonomies
3 5 (4.63%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.63%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.78%) NHS
5 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.85%) Acoustics
6 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.85%) Data Fabric
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%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Blog
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.78%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.78%) Windows
3 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (76.85%) Data Management
2 82 (75.93%) Metadata Management
3 66 (61.11%) Analytics
4 56 (51.85%) Data Governance
5 53 (49.07%) Data Modelling
6 43 (39.81%) Data Architecture
7 41 (37.96%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (37.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (35.19%) Agile
9 36 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
10 34 (31.48%) ETL
11 33 (30.56%) Data Engineering
12 31 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (26.85%) Data Transformation
13 29 (26.85%) Roadmaps
14 28 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (25.93%) Data Stewardship
15 27 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
15 27 (25.00%) Master Data Management
16 25 (23.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 51 (47.22%) SQL
2 38 (35.19%) Python
3 8 (7.41%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.63%) Java
5 3 (2.78%) C++
5 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.85%) Bash
6 2 (1.85%) C
6 2 (1.85%) Fortran
6 2 (1.85%) Go
6 2 (1.85%) Ruby
6 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.85%) SPARQL
7 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (30.56%) Degree
2 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.85%) PhD
5 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) CFA
6 1 (0.93%) CITP
6 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (71.30%) Data Quality
2 38 (35.19%) QA
3 25 (23.15%) Accessibility
4 14 (12.96%) GDPR
5 7 (6.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.85%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.85%) HDFS
2 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.63%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.85%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.19%) Oracle
3 8 (7.41%) Informatica
4 6 (5.56%) Databricks
4 6 (5.56%) Google
5 5 (4.63%) VMware
6 3 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.85%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.85%) Dataiku
7 2 (1.85%) MapR
7 2 (1.85%) SAP
7 2 (1.85%) StreamSets
7 2 (1.85%) Talend
8 1 (0.93%) Sparx