Metadata Management Jobs

Metadata Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 568 726 798
Rank change year-on-year +158 +72 +54
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 143 188 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 42 138 90
10th Percentile £43,461 £50,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £64,691
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +19.80% -13.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £113,250 £107,500 £106,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +25.00% -7.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management.

Salary trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Top 13 Job Locations

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 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
England +112 129 £66,367 -14.37% 125
UK excluding London +183 73 £62,500 -16.67% 118
London +84 60 £72,500 -9.38% 28
South East +105 48 £90,000 +5.88% 41
Work from Home +85 26 £65,000 -18.75% 24
South West +111 12 £66,367 -11.51% 16
Midlands +77 6 £56,250 -6.25% 19
Scotland +121 5 £34,131 -53.72% 7
West Midlands +49 5 £62,500 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire +52 1 £46,500 -22.50% 11
East Midlands +46 1 £42,500 -32.00% 10
North of England +23 1 £46,500 -51.76% 21
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 5

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (10.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.10%) Apache
2 3 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.40%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.70%) CMS
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Maximo
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (53.15%) Azure
2 71 (49.65%) AWS
3 63 (44.06%) GCP
4 35 (24.48%) Power Platform
5 31 (21.68%) Snowflake
6 18 (12.59%) Collibra
7 14 (9.79%) Salsify
8 13 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (8.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.80%) Alation
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.10%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.10%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.10%) SaaS
12 2 (1.40%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.40%) IaaS
12 2 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) WebEx
2 1 (0.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (100.00%) Metadata
2 56 (39.16%) Data Lake
3 47 (32.87%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (22.38%) Power BI
5 18 (12.59%) Metadata Repository
6 16 (11.19%) Tableau
7 14 (9.79%) Big Data
8 13 (9.09%) Hadoop
9 12 (8.39%) BigQuery
10 10 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
12 7 (4.90%) Ataccama
12 7 (4.90%) Relational Database
13 6 (4.20%) Apache Hive
14 5 (3.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 5 (3.50%) Spark SQL
15 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 4 (2.80%) SAP BW
16 2 (1.40%) Pentaho
16 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Git
1 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.70%) Ant
2 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.70%) ERwin
2 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 58 (40.56%) Analytical Skills
1 58 (40.56%) Law
2 50 (34.97%) Finance
3 48 (33.57%) Social Skills
4 34 (23.78%) Banking
5 25 (17.48%) Legal
6 21 (14.69%) Financial Institution
6 21 (14.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (14.69%) Retail Banking
7 17 (11.89%) Marketing
8 15 (10.49%) Retail
9 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.10%) Electronics
10 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.10%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.70%) Front Office
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (37.06%) Lead
2 47 (32.87%) Senior
3 40 (27.97%) Architect
4 38 (26.57%) Data Architect
5 14 (9.79%) Data Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Senior Manager
6 8 (5.59%) Data Manager
7 6 (4.20%) Analyst
7 6 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) Data Analyst
9 4 (2.80%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (2.80%) Data Quality Manager
9 4 (2.80%) Quality Manager
10 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (2.10%) IT Trainer
10 3 (2.10%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (2.10%) Legal IT Trainer
10 3 (2.10%) Product Lead
10 3 (2.10%) Trainer
11 2 (1.40%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.59%) Kafka
2 6 (4.20%) PySpark
3 3 (2.10%) XML
4 2 (1.40%) Apache Jena
5 1 (0.70%) NumPy
5 1 (0.70%) Pandas
5 1 (0.70%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.70%) XSD
5 1 (0.70%) XSLT
5 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.78%) Management Information System
2 17 (11.89%) Taxonomies
3 12 (8.39%) FMCG
4 11 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.59%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.20%) Reference Data
7 5 (3.50%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.10%) e-Learning
8 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.10%) iPhone
8 3 (2.10%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.70%) Life Science
10 1 (0.70%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.80%) Windows
2 3 (2.10%) Android
2 3 (2.10%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.70%) Linux
3 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (74.13%) Data Management
2 82 (57.34%) Data Governance
3 81 (56.64%) Data Modelling
4 80 (55.94%) Analytics
5 65 (45.45%) Data Architecture
6 57 (39.86%) Agile
6 57 (39.86%) Data Strategy
7 51 (35.66%) Data Engineering
8 47 (32.87%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (31.47%) Asset Management
10 44 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
10 44 (30.77%) Data Privacy
10 44 (30.77%) ETL
11 38 (26.57%) Matrix Organization
12 36 (25.17%) Data Stewardship
13 35 (24.48%) Data Lineage
13 35 (24.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (23.08%) Logical Data Model
15 32 (22.38%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (21.68%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.96%) SQL
2 43 (30.07%) Python
3 6 (4.20%) Java
4 5 (3.50%) R
5 4 (2.80%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.10%) Scala
7 2 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.40%) Ruby
7 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.40%) SPARQL
8 1 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.70%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 35 (24.48%) Degree
2 26 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 21 (14.69%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.59%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.59%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) CFA
8 1 (0.70%) CISSP
8 1 (0.70%) MBA
8 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (68.53%) Data Quality
2 41 (28.67%) QA
3 31 (21.68%) Accessibility
4 16 (11.19%) GDPR
5 10 (6.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.40%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.70%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.70%) EMIR
7 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.70%) IFRS
7 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.70%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (4.20%) HDFS
2 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.40%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (34.97%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.29%) Databricks
3 15 (10.49%) Google
4 13 (9.09%) Informatica
5 9 (6.29%) Oracle
6 8 (5.59%) SAP
7 4 (2.80%) Teradata
8 3 (2.10%) Alteryx
8 3 (2.10%) Cisco
8 3 (2.10%) iManage
8 3 (2.10%) Talend
9 2 (1.40%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.40%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.40%) MapR
9 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.70%) ESRI
10 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.70%) Nintex
10 1 (0.70%) Red Hat