Metadata Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 718 781 847
Rank change year-on-year +63 +66 -33
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 185 179 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 134 109 238
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,500 £50,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £108,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% - +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Metadata Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,952 96,876 150,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,894 57,115 82,331
10th Percentile £29,002 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Top 14 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 12 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
England +88 170 £80,000 +25.80% 42
London +136 85 £85,000 +27.64% 23
UK excluding London +6 85 £80,000 +33.33% 20
Work from Home +60 62 £85,000 +29.40% 21
South East +12 33 £85,000 +36.00% 2
North of England +67 30 £92,778 +78.42% 8
North West +12 17 £100,000 +92.31% 2
Midlands -3 14 £61,250 +22.50% 4
West Midlands +26 13 £60,000 +14.29% 3
Yorkshire +85 9 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South West -27 6 £75,000 -36.12% 3
North East - 4 £42,500 - 3
Scotland -52 2 £73,750 -
East Midlands -11 1 £62,500 +39.31% 1

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 11 (5.95%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.41%) Confluence
3 8 (4.32%) Apache
3 8 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.78%) SAS
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.70%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (52.43%) Azure
2 49 (26.49%) Power Platform
3 35 (18.92%) AWS
4 27 (14.59%) GCP
5 26 (14.05%) Snowflake
6 24 (12.97%) Matillion
7 22 (11.89%) Microsoft Purview
8 19 (10.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (9.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (9.73%) Collibra
9 18 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
10 17 (9.19%) Serverless
11 16 (8.65%) GitHub
12 7 (3.78%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (3.78%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (3.78%) Dagster
12 7 (3.78%) dbt
12 7 (3.78%) Prefect
13 6 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.24%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (100.00%) Metadata
2 57 (30.81%) Data Lake
3 54 (29.19%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (23.78%) Power BI
5 21 (11.35%) Relational Database
6 17 (9.19%) Big Data
6 17 (9.19%) SQL Server
7 14 (7.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 14 (7.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (5.41%) Ataccama
9 9 (4.86%) NoSQL
10 8 (4.32%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (3.78%) Data Hub
11 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 7 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (3.24%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (2.70%) Data Vault
14 4 (2.16%) Delta Lake
14 4 (2.16%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (5.41%) JIRA
2 9 (4.86%) Git
3 8 (4.32%) GitLab
4 7 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.78%) Spinnaker
5 3 (1.62%) ERwin
6 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 94 (50.81%) Finance
2 77 (41.62%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 33 (17.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (17.30%) Banking
6 14 (7.57%) Financial Institution
6 14 (7.57%) Retail Banking
7 8 (4.32%) Law
7 8 (4.32%) Legal
7 8 (4.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.78%) Billing
9 5 (2.70%) Marketing
9 5 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.16%) Wearables
11 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Retail
13 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (45.95%) Architect
2 80 (43.24%) Data Architect
3 50 (27.03%) Senior
4 34 (18.38%) Senior Architect
4 34 (18.38%) Senior Data Architect
5 33 (17.84%) Data Engineer
6 21 (11.35%) Analyst
7 17 (9.19%) Lead
8 16 (8.65%) Data Analyst
9 15 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (8.11%) Enterprise Architect
9 15 (8.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 14 (7.57%) Azure Data Engineer
11 11 (5.95%) Data Manager
12 10 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.78%) Data Governance Analyst
13 7 (3.78%) Data Governance Manager
13 7 (3.78%) Governance Manager
14 6 (3.24%) Data Analytics Architect
14 6 (3.24%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.78%) .NET
2 6 (3.24%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (2.70%) J2EE
4 3 (1.62%) XML
5 2 (1.08%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.08%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.54%) FHIR
6 1 (0.54%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.54%) JSON
6 1 (0.54%) Kafka
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.54%) PySpark
6 1 (0.54%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.30%) Management Information System
2 20 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.65%) Reference Data
4 11 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.86%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.32%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.32%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.78%) NHS
8 5 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (2.16%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.62%) IoT
10 3 (1.62%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.08%) e-Learning
11 2 (1.08%) iPhone
11 2 (1.08%) W3C
12 1 (0.54%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.16%) Windows
2 2 (1.08%) Android
2 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (60.54%) Data Modelling
2 94 (50.81%) Data Management
3 93 (50.27%) Analytics
4 90 (48.65%) Agile
4 90 (48.65%) Data Architecture
5 85 (45.95%) Data Strategy
6 84 (45.41%) Data Governance
7 78 (42.16%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (31.35%) DevOps
9 53 (28.65%) Data Analysis
10 51 (27.57%) ETL
11 45 (24.32%) Logical Data Model
12 44 (23.78%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (20.54%) Data Design
14 37 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
15 35 (18.92%) Roadmaps
16 33 (17.84%) Data Science
17 32 (17.30%) Data Privacy
18 29 (15.68%) DataOps
18 29 (15.68%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 80 (43.24%) SQL
2 37 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 25 (13.51%) Python
4 16 (8.65%) Java
5 4 (2.16%) R
6 3 (1.62%) C#
6 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.08%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.08%) Scala
8 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.73%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.57%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.41%) Degree
4 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.62%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (1.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.08%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (60.54%) Data Quality
2 33 (17.84%) GDPR
3 6 (3.24%) GRC
4 3 (1.62%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (1.08%) HL7
5 2 (1.08%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (6.49%) Terraform
2 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (31.35%) Microsoft
2 44 (23.78%) Databricks
3 11 (5.95%) Oracle
4 9 (4.86%) Google
5 7 (3.78%) Informatica
6 6 (3.24%) SAP
7 4 (2.16%) Talend
8 3 (1.62%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.08%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco
9 2 (1.08%) iManage
9 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.08%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.54%) Apple
10 1 (0.54%) Facebook
10 1 (0.54%) IBM
10 1 (0.54%) Marketo
10 1 (0.54%) Remedy
10 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.54%) Sparx