Metadata Jobs

Metadata
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 501 527
Rank change year-on-year -42 +26 +65
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 324 440 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.55% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% 2.60% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 199 272 575
10th Percentile £37,250 £45,100 £44,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,625 £87,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,011 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,249 £63,000
% change year-on-year -0.41% -4.37% +14.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14,713 16,902 48,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 20.95% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 11,871 21,175
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -84 249 £65,000 - 37
UK excluding London -48 179 £60,000 -0.41% 24
London +8 116 £75,000 +7.14% 14
Work from Home -84 96 £55,250 -15.00% 22
North of England +30 49 £70,000 +16.18% 7
Scotland -10 49 £67,500 +12.04%
North West +20 36 £100,000 +65.98% 4
Midlands -28 35 £60,000 -
West Midlands -8 33 £59,300 -5.12%
South East -10 31 £38,500 -53.33% 5
South West -46 14 £38,500 -36.10% 9
Yorkshire +54 8 £46,965 -36.96% 3
North East -14 5 £42,500 +7.90%
East Midlands -30 2 £76,250 +45.61%
East of England -11 1 £62,000 +12.73% 2

Metadata
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 17 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.40%) Confluence
4 10 (3.09%) SAS
5 9 (2.78%) Apache
6 8 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.93%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.62%) CMS
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.31%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.31%) Documentum
Applications
1 14 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.54%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) HFM
3 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 104 (32.10%) Azure
2 50 (15.43%) AWS
3 42 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 32 (9.88%) GCP
5 30 (9.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (7.41%) Collibra
7 22 (6.79%) Microsoft Purview
8 19 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.09%) GitHub
11 10 (3.09%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.47%) Alation
12 8 (2.47%) Matillion
12 8 (2.47%) SaaS
13 7 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (2.16%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (2.16%) Dagster
13 7 (2.16%) dbt
13 7 (2.16%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 44 (13.58%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.93%) WebEx
3 2 (0.62%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (16.05%) Data Lake
3 37 (11.42%) Power BI
4 26 (8.02%) SQL Server
5 24 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 23 (7.10%) NoSQL
7 21 (6.48%) Big Data
8 20 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 16 (4.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (3.09%) Data Mining
10 10 (3.09%) Metadata Repository
11 9 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.47%) Data Hub
12 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (2.47%) OLAP
12 8 (2.47%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.16%) Oracle OLAP
14 6 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (16.67%) Git
2 47 (14.51%) Jenkins
3 44 (13.58%) Artifactory
3 44 (13.58%) Bitbucket
4 11 (3.40%) JIRA
5 5 (1.54%) ERwin
6 2 (0.62%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.62%) GitLab
6 2 (0.62%) MagicDraw
6 2 (0.62%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.31%) Ant
7 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.31%) JMeter
7 1 (0.31%) Postman
7 1 (0.31%) Toad
General
1 165 (50.93%) Finance
2 91 (28.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 70 (21.60%) Marketing
4 57 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (16.98%) Law
6 51 (15.74%) Social Skills
7 46 (14.20%) Banking
8 17 (5.25%) Retail Banking
9 15 (4.63%) Financial Institution
10 13 (4.01%) Legal
11 10 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (2.78%) Manufacturing
13 8 (2.47%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.54%) Publishing
15 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.93%) Billing
16 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.93%) Local Government
16 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 111 (34.26%) Architect
2 94 (29.01%) Senior
3 93 (28.70%) Data Architect
4 53 (16.36%) Lead
5 51 (15.74%) Software Engineer
6 46 (14.20%) Lead Software Engineer
7 34 (10.49%) Data Engineer
8 33 (10.19%) Senior Architect
8 33 (10.19%) Senior Data Architect
8 33 (10.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (9.57%) Analyst
10 26 (8.02%) Data Analyst
11 21 (6.48%) CRM Executive
12 20 (6.17%) Data Manager
13 18 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
14 14 (4.32%) Azure Data Engineer
14 14 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
16 11 (3.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.74%) XML
2 49 (15.12%) Web Services
3 44 (13.58%) JSON
3 44 (13.58%) JSON-LD
3 44 (13.58%) LDAP
3 44 (13.58%) OpenID
3 44 (13.58%) RESTful
3 44 (13.58%) SAML
4 10 (3.09%) PySpark
5 6 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
6 5 (1.54%) .NET
6 5 (1.54%) HTML
6 5 (1.54%) Itk
6 5 (1.54%) J2EE
7 2 (0.62%) Great Expectations
7 2 (0.62%) Kafka
7 2 (0.62%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.62%) SPFx
7 2 (0.62%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.31%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 89 (27.47%) Management Information System
2 56 (17.28%) Reference Data
3 44 (13.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 15 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.40%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.09%) PlayStation
7 9 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.78%) Taxonomies
8 8 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.47%) NHS
8 8 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.85%) Blog
10 5 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (1.23%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.93%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.93%) Android
1 3 (0.93%) Windows
1 3 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (54.94%) Data Modelling
2 154 (47.53%) Metadata Management
3 145 (44.75%) Agile
4 133 (41.05%) Data Governance
5 123 (37.96%) Data Management
6 107 (33.02%) Analytics
7 98 (30.25%) Data Architecture
8 90 (27.78%) CI/CD
9 84 (25.93%) Roadmaps
10 79 (24.38%) Data Pipeline
11 78 (24.07%) DevOps
12 76 (23.46%) SDLC
13 75 (23.15%) Data Strategy
14 71 (21.91%) Business Intelligence
15 69 (21.30%) Use Case
16 61 (18.83%) Software Engineering
17 58 (17.90%) Architectural Design
17 58 (17.90%) DataOps
18 57 (17.59%) Data Transformation
19 55 (16.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 94 (29.01%) SQL
2 44 (13.58%) Go
2 44 (13.58%) Prolog
2 44 (13.58%) Python
2 44 (13.58%) SPARQL
3 24 (7.41%) Java
4 23 (7.10%) T-SQL
5 9 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.78%) Scala
6 7 (2.16%) R
7 5 (1.54%) C
7 5 (1.54%) C++
7 5 (1.54%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.23%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.23%) VBA
9 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.62%) C#
9 2 (0.62%) Ladder Logic
9 2 (0.62%) XQuery
10 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (8.02%) Degree
2 19 (5.86%) Azure Certification
3 15 (4.63%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.54%) MCAD
7 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.62%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.31%) PhD
9 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (53.40%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.26%) GDPR
3 6 (1.85%) GRC
4 5 (1.54%) QA
5 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.93%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.62%) HL7
6 2 (0.62%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 44 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (4.63%) Terraform
2 2 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.31%) Control-M
Vendors
1 76 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.04%) Databricks
3 34 (10.49%) Salesforce
4 26 (8.02%) Oracle
5 22 (6.79%) Informatica
6 12 (3.70%) IBM
7 10 (3.09%) Facebook
7 10 (3.09%) Sony
8 7 (2.16%) SAP
9 6 (1.85%) Google
10 4 (1.23%) Talend
11 3 (0.93%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.93%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.93%) Cisco
11 3 (0.93%) ESRI
11 3 (0.93%) iManage
11 3 (0.93%) Sparx
12 2 (0.62%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.62%) Screaming Frog
12 2 (0.62%) Siemens