Metadata
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 422 514 519
Rank change year-on-year +92 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 338 715 709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.58% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.00% 2.50% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 173 488 449
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,541 £33,250
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,689 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +5.10% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £97,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,249 £64,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year -5.86% +14.80% +25.99%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,277 28,579 34,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.28% 23.27% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,446 17,544 22,627
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,580 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Metadata in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK

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Top 16 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 7 December 2023. 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 +120 319 £67,500 +2.76% 112
Work from Home +170 237 £65,000 -3.70% 77
UK excluding London +115 172 £60,249 -5.86% 57
London +118 146 £72,500 +8.61% 63
South East +103 81 £70,000 +16.67% 21
North of England +97 36 £60,249 -10.74% 14
South West +76 24 £60,249 -22.26% 6
Midlands +104 20 £82,500 +28.91% 11
Yorkshire +75 18 £62,500 -16.11% 3
West Midlands +99 16 £95,000 +47.29% 10
North West +102 15 £60,249 -3.21% 11
Scotland +29 8 £60,249 +0.42% 2
East Midlands +53 4 £52,000 +0.97% 1
North East +42 3 £39,299 -53.77%
East of England +111 2 £30,000 -45.45% 2
Wales +1 1 £72,085 +22.18% 3

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 67 (19.82%) SAS
2 18 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.07%) CMS
4 6 (1.78%) Confluence
5 5 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.18%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.59%) Apache
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.48%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.18%) HFM
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.89%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 108 (31.95%) Azure
2 69 (20.41%) AWS
3 49 (14.50%) Power Platform
4 29 (8.58%) GCP
5 23 (6.80%) Collibra
6 18 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (5.03%) Serverless
7 17 (5.03%) Snowflake
8 16 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.55%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.66%) Datadog
11 9 (2.66%) Entra ID
11 9 (2.66%) OneDrive
12 8 (2.37%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.37%) Matillion
13 7 (2.07%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.07%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) DHCP
1 4 (1.18%) DNS
2 2 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (0.59%) Firewall
2 2 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.93%) Base SAS
2 53 (15.68%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (13.31%) Power BI
4 34 (10.06%) Hadoop
5 27 (7.99%) MongoDB
5 27 (7.99%) Tableau
6 26 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (7.40%) Metadata Repository
8 24 (7.10%) Data Lake
9 23 (6.80%) SQL Server
10 15 (4.44%) Data Vault
11 13 (3.85%) Big Data
11 13 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 9 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (2.07%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.78%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.78%) Parquet
15 6 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.73%) JIRA
2 11 (3.25%) ERwin
3 4 (1.18%) Git
3 4 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.18%) Spinnaker
4 2 (0.59%) Ant
4 2 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.30%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 127 (37.57%) Finance
2 118 (34.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 81 (23.96%) Social Skills
4 64 (18.93%) Pharmaceutical
5 57 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (12.13%) Banking
7 36 (10.65%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (7.40%) Public Sector
9 21 (6.21%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (4.44%) Legal
11 13 (3.85%) Marketing
12 10 (2.96%) Advertising
13 9 (2.66%) Law
13 9 (2.66%) Retail
14 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.18%) Publishing
15 3 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (22.49%) Senior
2 64 (18.93%) Programmer
2 64 (18.93%) SAS Programmer
2 64 (18.93%) SAS Statistical Programmer
2 64 (18.93%) Statistical Programmer
3 47 (13.91%) Data Engineer
4 41 (12.13%) Architect
5 39 (11.54%) Data Architect
6 37 (10.95%) Data Manager
7 34 (10.06%) Senior Programmer
7 34 (10.06%) Senior SAS Programmer
7 34 (10.06%) Senior Statistical Programmer
8 31 (9.17%) Analyst
9 30 (8.88%) Principal Statistical Programmer
10 28 (8.28%) Data Analyst
11 26 (7.69%) Consultant
12 25 (7.40%) Lead
13 21 (6.21%) Data Consultant
14 17 (5.03%) Data Governance Manager
14 17 (5.03%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (21.30%) XML
2 25 (7.40%) HTML
3 24 (7.10%) React
4 10 (2.96%) Pandas
5 7 (2.07%) NumPy
6 6 (1.78%) Matplotlib
7 5 (1.48%) .NET
7 5 (1.48%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.48%) JSON
8 4 (1.18%) Kafka
9 3 (0.89%) Anaconda
9 3 (0.89%) Flask
9 3 (0.89%) Plotly
9 3 (0.89%) SOAP
9 3 (0.89%) SQLAlchemy
10 2 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.59%) PySpark
10 2 (0.59%) REST
10 2 (0.59%) Visualforce
11 1 (0.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 73 (21.60%) Onboarding
2 64 (18.93%) Life Science
3 32 (9.47%) Product Ownership
4 29 (8.58%) Cloud Native
5 26 (7.69%) Cyberattack
6 23 (6.80%) Data Structures
6 23 (6.80%) Management Information System
7 18 (5.33%) Data Fabric
8 12 (3.55%) Reference Data
9 9 (2.66%) Taxonomies
9 9 (2.66%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.37%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.59%) IoT
13 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.40%) Windows
2 13 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.25%) Linux
4 9 (2.66%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.59%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (47.63%) Data Management
2 139 (41.12%) Data Modelling
3 133 (39.35%) Metadata Management
4 117 (34.62%) Agile
5 106 (31.36%) Data Governance
6 96 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (23.37%) Creative Thinking
8 78 (23.08%) Analytics
9 77 (22.78%) Business Intelligence
9 77 (22.78%) Collaborative Working
9 77 (22.78%) Computer Science
9 77 (22.78%) Line Management
10 72 (21.30%) Statistics
11 70 (20.71%) Mathematics
12 67 (19.82%) Data Architecture
13 64 (18.93%) Biotechnology
13 64 (18.93%) Data Lineage
14 58 (17.16%) Data Analysis
15 55 (16.27%) Data Engineering
16 52 (15.38%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 65 (19.23%) SQL
2 64 (18.93%) SAS Macro
3 39 (11.54%) Python
4 25 (7.40%) PowerShell
5 13 (3.85%) T-SQL
6 9 (2.66%) Bash
6 9 (2.66%) Search Processing Language
7 7 (2.07%) C#
7 7 (2.07%) R
8 5 (1.48%) Java
9 4 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.89%) Scala
11 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.59%) SOQL
11 2 (0.59%) SOSL
11 2 (0.59%) VBA
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 93 (27.51%) Degree
2 40 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 30 (8.88%) Numerate Degree
4 24 (7.10%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.14%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 9 (2.66%) CCSP
7 9 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.66%) CISSP
7 9 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.07%) MCSE
9 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.59%) HND
11 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.30%) CSPO
11 1 (0.30%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (33.14%) Data Quality
2 67 (19.82%) QA
3 64 (18.93%) CDISC
4 33 (9.76%) GDPR
5 4 (1.18%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) GAAP
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (3.55%) Active Directory
1 12 (3.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.18%) Firmware
2 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.66%) Ansible
2 9 (2.66%) Terraform
3 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (11.54%) Microsoft
1 39 (11.54%) Oracle
2 28 (8.28%) Informatica
3 26 (7.69%) Databricks
4 16 (4.73%) SAP
5 13 (3.85%) Google
6 9 (2.66%) AppDynamics
6 9 (2.66%) New Relic
6 9 (2.66%) Splunk
7 7 (2.07%) Talend
7 7 (2.07%) VMware
8 4 (1.18%) Anaplan
8 4 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.89%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.89%) Cisco
9 3 (0.89%) IBM
10 2 (0.59%) Meraki
10 2 (0.59%) Peregrine
10 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.59%) Siemens