Metadata Repository Jobs

Metadata Repository
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Metadata Repository skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Repository 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 681 901 938
Rank change year-on-year +220 +37 +240
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Repository 28 11 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.011% 0.025%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.37% 0.060% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 19
10th Percentile £43,290 £42,963 £48,402
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,565 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% -8.24%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,500 £74,749
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year - +6.84% +4.93%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Metadata Repository 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,654 18,365 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 17.78% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,812 12,527 13,034
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,394 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Metadata Repository
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Repository in the UK

Metadata Repository
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Metadata Repository in the UK

Metadata Repository
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Metadata Repository in the UK

Metadata Repository
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Repository 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 +176 28 £62,500 - 3
UK excluding London +217 27 £62,500 - 3
Work from Home +135 18 £66,367 +6.13% 1
Midlands +96 13 £62,500 -
West Midlands +67 12 £65,000 +4.00%
South West - 8 £55,414 -
South East - 5 - -
London +108 1 £90,000 +36.93% 3
East Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
North East - 1 £47,500 -
North of England - 1 £47,500 -

Metadata Repository
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 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (14.29%) AWS
4 4 (14.29%) Collibra
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
5 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (100.00%) Metadata
2 12 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (32.14%) Power BI
4 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 5 (17.86%) Data Hub
5 5 (17.86%) Tableau
6 4 (14.29%) Ataccama
6 4 (14.29%) MySQL
6 4 (14.29%) Spark SQL
7 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
8 2 (7.14%) Pentaho
8 2 (7.14%) Triplestore
9 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
9 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
9 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (3.57%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) ERwin
1 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Banking
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Data Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Analyst
2 4 (14.29%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Data Quality Manager
2 4 (14.29%) Lead
2 4 (14.29%) Quality Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Data Quality Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Quality Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Quality Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Jena
2 2 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
3 1 (3.57%) Plotly
3 1 (3.57%) Regular Expression
3 1 (3.57%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) Data Management
2 18 (64.29%) Metadata Management
3 17 (60.71%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (50.00%) Data Governance
5 13 (46.43%) Data Modelling
6 10 (35.71%) Agile
6 10 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (35.71%) Data Lineage
6 10 (35.71%) Data Science
7 9 (32.14%) Analytics
7 9 (32.14%) ETL
8 7 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 6 (21.43%) Data Protection
9 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (17.86%) ETL Development
10 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (17.86%) Reverse Engineering
11 4 (14.29%) Data Governance Strategy
11 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (14.29%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.14%) SPARQL
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) PROC SQL
5 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (60.71%) Data Quality
2 13 (46.43%) QA
3 6 (21.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (21.43%) GDPR
4 2 (7.14%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Flume
1 1 (3.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kibana
1 1 (3.57%) logstash
1 1 (3.57%) Oozie
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Informatica
2 8 (28.57%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Talend
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.57%) SAP