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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 553 487
Rank change year-on-year +92 -66 +41
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 285 365 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.37% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.59% 2.20% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 109 223 287
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £104,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £61,159 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.24% +1.51% -4.37%

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 7,931 16,571 17,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.19% 16.57% 21.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,945 11,120 12,278
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -5.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK

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Top 17 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 18 July 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 +113 261 £70,000 +3.70% 301
UK excluding London +65 133 £63,750 +4.24% 145
London +109 131 £77,500 +3.33% 195
Work from Home +54 74 £65,000 +9.61% 123
South East +73 59 £65,000 -3.70% 54
Midlands +57 30 £65,000 +9.61% 23
West Midlands +46 25 £65,000 +9.61% 18
North of England +1 22 £47,500 -32.14% 33
North West -19 12 £70,000 -30.00% 22
South West +85 9 £66,367 +72.38% 18
North East +35 6 £47,500 +11.76% 5
East of England +28 6 - - 8
Scotland +38 5 £34,131 -49.44% 6
East Midlands +38 5 £42,500 -44.26% 5
Yorkshire +31 4 £60,000 +23.72% 6
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 4
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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 43 (15.09%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.16%) CMS
4 4 (1.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.40%) SAS
5 3 (1.05%) Apache
5 3 (1.05%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.70%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) Confluence
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.70%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.35%) Maximo
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 131 (45.96%) Azure
2 111 (38.95%) AWS
3 79 (27.72%) Power Platform
4 74 (25.96%) GCP
5 35 (12.28%) Snowflake
6 26 (9.12%) Collibra
7 24 (8.42%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (8.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (7.72%) Amazon S3
10 19 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
11 18 (6.32%) SaaS
12 14 (4.91%) Salsify
13 12 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (4.21%) Google Analytics
14 11 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (2.81%) Power Automate
16 8 (2.81%) PowerApps
17 7 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.40%) Intranet
2 3 (1.05%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.70%) ADSL2
3 2 (0.70%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (24.56%) Power BI
2 66 (23.16%) Data Lake
3 64 (22.46%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (11.58%) Tableau
5 27 (9.47%) SQL Server
6 26 (9.12%) Spark SQL
7 25 (8.77%) Big Data
8 24 (8.42%) Hadoop
9 21 (7.37%) Delta Lake
9 21 (7.37%) Metadata Repository
10 20 (7.02%) NoSQL
11 19 (6.67%) DynamoDB
12 18 (6.32%) Data Hub
13 16 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (5.61%) BigQuery
14 14 (4.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 14 (4.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 13 (4.56%) SQL CLR
16 11 (3.86%) Relational Database
17 9 (3.16%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 19 (6.67%) MLflow
2 9 (3.16%) Git
2 9 (3.16%) JIRA
3 7 (2.46%) ERwin
4 5 (1.75%) ER Studio
5 3 (1.05%) Babel
5 3 (1.05%) gulp
5 3 (1.05%) webpack
6 2 (0.70%) Ant
6 2 (0.70%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 100 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 90 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (30.18%) Finance
4 76 (26.67%) Law
5 39 (13.68%) Legal
6 35 (12.28%) Banking
6 35 (12.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (12.28%) Marketing
7 22 (7.72%) Financial Institution
7 22 (7.72%) Retail Banking
8 18 (6.32%) Retail
9 16 (5.61%) Back Office
10 12 (4.21%) Publishing
11 9 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.16%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.40%) Advertising
12 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (27.02%) Lead
2 68 (23.86%) Senior
3 57 (20.00%) Architect
4 54 (18.95%) Data Architect
5 22 (7.72%) Data Engineer
6 20 (7.02%) Developer
7 19 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 19 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
8 18 (6.32%) Analyst
9 15 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.91%) Senior Manager
11 13 (4.56%) Microsoft Developer
11 13 (4.56%) SaaS Developer
11 13 (4.56%) Senior Microsoft Developer
11 13 (4.56%) Senior SQL Developer
11 13 (4.56%) SQL Developer
12 11 (3.86%) Senior Data Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Product Lead
14 9 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
14 9 (3.16%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.53%) PySpark
2 22 (7.72%) Keras
2 22 (7.72%) PyTorch
2 22 (7.72%) TensorFlow
3 21 (7.37%) Kafka
4 20 (7.02%) YAML
5 19 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
5 19 (6.67%) Metaflow
5 19 (6.67%) NumPy
5 19 (6.67%) Pandas
5 19 (6.67%) scikit-learn
6 9 (3.16%) HTML
7 7 (2.46%) CSS
8 5 (1.75%) Regular Expression
9 4 (1.40%) EDI
9 4 (1.40%) XML
10 3 (1.05%) Node.js
10 3 (1.05%) OAuth
10 3 (1.05%) REST
10 3 (1.05%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.63%) Management Information System
2 25 (8.77%) Taxonomies
3 22 (7.72%) FMCG
4 20 (7.02%) Product Ownership
5 19 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (4.91%) Data Structures
7 13 (4.56%) Private Cloud
8 9 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.11%) Smart City
11 5 (1.75%) Blog
11 5 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.75%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.40%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
13 3 (1.05%) Operational Technology
13 3 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.42%) Unix
2 5 (1.75%) Linux
3 3 (1.05%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.05%) Windows
4 2 (0.70%) Android
4 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (62.46%) Metadata Management
2 142 (49.82%) Data Modelling
3 132 (46.32%) Data Management
4 125 (43.86%) Data Governance
5 123 (43.16%) Analytics
6 91 (31.93%) Data Architecture
7 79 (27.72%) Business Intelligence
8 77 (27.02%) Agile
9 72 (25.26%) Data Engineering
9 72 (25.26%) Data Privacy
10 67 (23.51%) ETL
11 66 (23.16%) Data Strategy
12 64 (22.46%) Artificial Intelligence
12 64 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (22.11%) Data Pipeline
14 57 (20.00%) Asset Management
15 56 (19.65%) Data Lineage
15 56 (19.65%) Machine Learning
16 54 (18.95%) Data Science
16 54 (18.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 122 (42.81%) SQL
2 78 (27.37%) Python
3 15 (5.26%) T-SQL
4 12 (4.21%) R
5 11 (3.86%) Java
6 7 (2.46%) Scala
7 5 (1.75%) Bash
8 4 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.05%) PROC SQL
10 2 (0.70%) C
10 2 (0.70%) C#
10 2 (0.70%) C++
10 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.70%) Fortran
10 2 (0.70%) Go
10 2 (0.70%) Ruby
10 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.70%) SPARQL
10 2 (0.70%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 57 (20.00%) Degree
2 30 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 25 (8.77%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.56%) Master's Degree
5 12 (4.21%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.81%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.05%) CITP
10 2 (0.70%) PhD
10 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CFA
11 1 (0.35%) CISSP
11 1 (0.35%) MBA
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (45.26%) Data Quality
2 54 (18.95%) QA
3 49 (17.19%) Accessibility
4 31 (10.88%) GDPR
5 8 (2.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.70%) Dublin Core
6 2 (0.70%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.35%) EMIR
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (7.02%) Docker
2 13 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.16%) HDFS
4 4 (1.40%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.05%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (8.07%) Kubernetes
1 23 (8.07%) Terraform
2 19 (6.67%) Kubeflow
3 13 (4.56%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (1.05%) Kibana
4 3 (1.05%) logstash
4 3 (1.05%) Oozie
5 2 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 97 (34.04%) Microsoft
2 66 (23.16%) Databricks
3 33 (11.58%) Google
4 31 (10.88%) Informatica
5 19 (6.67%) Oracle
6 16 (5.61%) SAP
7 13 (4.56%) VMware
8 10 (3.51%) IBM
9 9 (3.16%) Salesforce
9 9 (3.16%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.75%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.75%) Pega
10 5 (1.75%) Screaming Frog
10 5 (1.75%) YouTube
11 4 (1.40%) Adobe
11 4 (1.40%) Ahrefs
11 4 (1.40%) Sparx
11 4 (1.40%) Teradata
12 3 (1.05%) Dell
12 3 (1.05%) MicroStrategy