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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 700 806
Rank change year-on-year +129 +106 +53
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 148 186 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 46 135 104
10th Percentile £44,145 £50,000 £50,150
25th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £64,691
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +23.66% -13.75%
75th Percentile £89,375 £95,000 £85,313
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £104,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -21.88% +33.33% -2.08%

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 52,452 85,111 95,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.88% 85.18% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,389 59,794 56,136
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 21 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 21 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 +123 132 £65,000 -18.75% 93
UK excluding London +164 76 £62,500 -21.88% 47
London +100 62 £72,500 -13.43% 66
South East +103 48 £102,500 +20.59% 20
Work from Home +81 29 £65,000 -23.53% 47
South West +130 12 £66,367 -11.51% 5
Midlands +53 6 £56,250 -8.16% 4
Scotland +125 5 £34,131 -53.72% 4
West Midlands +49 5 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Yorkshire +58 3 £87,283 +45.47% 5
North of England +14 3 £87,283 -5.92% 8
Wales - 2 £66,250 - 3
East Midlands +37 1 £42,500 -32.00%

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 14 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.03%) Apache
2 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (54.05%) Azure
2 70 (47.30%) AWS
3 64 (43.24%) GCP
4 35 (23.65%) Power Platform
5 31 (20.95%) Snowflake
6 20 (13.51%) Collibra
7 14 (9.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (9.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 14 (9.46%) Salsify
8 5 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.70%) PaaS
10 3 (2.03%) Alation
10 3 (2.03%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.03%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.35%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.35%) H2O.ai
11 2 (1.35%) SaaS
11 2 (1.35%) Serverless
11 2 (1.35%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) WebEx
2 2 (1.35%) 5G
3 1 (0.68%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (100.00%) Metadata
2 57 (38.51%) Data Lake
3 47 (31.76%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (21.62%) Power BI
5 19 (12.84%) Metadata Repository
6 15 (10.14%) Tableau
7 13 (8.78%) Big Data
8 12 (8.11%) BigQuery
8 12 (8.11%) Hadoop
9 10 (6.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (6.08%) Ataccama
11 7 (4.73%) NoSQL
11 7 (4.73%) Relational Database
12 6 (4.05%) Apache Hive
13 5 (3.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (3.38%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.70%) SAP BW
14 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
15 2 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Git
1 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.68%) Ant
2 1 (0.68%) ER Studio
2 1 (0.68%) ERwin
2 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 59 (39.86%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (39.19%) Law
3 53 (35.81%) Finance
4 48 (32.43%) Social Skills
5 37 (25.00%) Banking
6 25 (16.89%) Legal
7 22 (14.86%) Financial Institution
7 22 (14.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (14.86%) Retail Banking
8 17 (11.49%) Marketing
9 15 (10.14%) Retail
10 6 (4.05%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.03%) Electronics
12 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.68%) Front Office
14 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 52 (35.14%) Lead
2 50 (33.78%) Senior
3 38 (25.68%) Architect
4 36 (24.32%) Data Architect
5 16 (10.81%) Data Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Senior Manager
6 10 (6.76%) Data Manager
7 7 (4.73%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Analyst
9 5 (3.38%) Data Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (2.70%) Consultant
10 4 (2.70%) Data Consultant
10 4 (2.70%) Data Quality Manager
10 4 (2.70%) IT Trainer
10 4 (2.70%) Legal IT Trainer
10 4 (2.70%) Quality Manager
10 4 (2.70%) Trainer
11 3 (2.03%) Lead Data Engineer
12 2 (1.35%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.73%) Kafka
1 7 (4.73%) PySpark
2 3 (2.03%) XML
3 2 (1.35%) Apache Jena
3 2 (1.35%) NumPy
3 2 (1.35%) Pandas
3 2 (1.35%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (0.68%) XSD
4 1 (0.68%) XSLT
4 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.57%) Management Information System
2 17 (11.49%) Taxonomies
3 11 (7.43%) FMCG
4 10 (6.76%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.41%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.73%) Reference Data
7 5 (3.38%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.70%) e-Learning
8 4 (2.70%) iPhone
9 3 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) IoT
10 2 (1.35%) NHS
10 2 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) Self-Driving Car
11 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Windows
2 4 (2.70%) Android
2 4 (2.70%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.35%) Linux
3 2 (1.35%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (76.35%) Data Management
2 83 (56.08%) Data Governance
3 82 (55.41%) Data Modelling
4 81 (54.73%) Analytics
5 67 (45.27%) Data Architecture
6 58 (39.19%) Agile
7 57 (38.51%) Data Strategy
8 55 (37.16%) Data Engineering
9 48 (32.43%) ETL
10 47 (31.76%) Asset Management
11 45 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (29.73%) Data Privacy
13 38 (25.68%) Matrix Organization
14 35 (23.65%) Data Lineage
14 35 (23.65%) Data Stewardship
14 35 (23.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (22.30%) Business Intelligence
15 33 (22.30%) Data Transformation
15 33 (22.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.89%) SQL
2 46 (31.08%) Python
3 6 (4.05%) Java
4 5 (3.38%) R
5 4 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.03%) Scala
7 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.35%) Ruby
7 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.35%) SPARQL
7 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.68%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.68%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 35 (23.65%) Degree
2 26 (17.57%) Azure Certification
3 22 (14.86%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.73%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.73%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) CFA
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (67.57%) Data Quality
2 41 (27.70%) QA
3 30 (20.27%) Accessibility
4 15 (10.14%) GDPR
5 9 (6.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.35%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.68%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.68%) EMIR
7 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.68%) IFRS
7 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.68%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (4.05%) HDFS
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.35%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (0.68%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (35.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.86%) Databricks
3 15 (10.14%) Google
4 13 (8.78%) Informatica
5 8 (5.41%) SAP
6 7 (4.73%) Oracle
7 4 (2.70%) Cisco
7 4 (2.70%) iManage
7 4 (2.70%) Teradata
8 3 (2.03%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.35%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.35%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.35%) MapR
9 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.35%) Talend
10 1 (0.68%) Nintex
10 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.68%) Sparx