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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 533 513
Rank change year-on-year +24 -20 +84
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 426 533 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 2.46% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 240 332 512
10th Percentile £39,425 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,011 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,249 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.74% +9.54% +4.76%

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 18,197 21,669 43,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.35% 21.34% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,547 13,515 21,192
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
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

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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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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 -29 318 £69,469 +6.87% 93
UK excluding London -3 239 £62,500 +3.74% 43
London +32 148 £75,000 +9.17% 50
Work from Home -40 123 £72,500 +7.41% 47
Scotland -3 70 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Midlands +26 58 £55,000 +4.76% 11
West Midlands +33 54 £55,000 -4.35% 10
North of England +45 53 £70,000 +3.70% 10
South East -18 40 £85,000 +41.67% 9
North West +18 32 £92,778 +78.42% 6
South West -46 14 £68,937 +14.42% 5
Yorkshire +71 13 £60,000 -19.46% 4
North East -1 8 £42,625 -7.34%
East Midlands -12 4 £50,000 +11.45% 1
East of England +1 3 £31,000 -43.64% 5
Wales +3 1 £47,500 -18.10% 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 18 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.05%) Confluence
4 12 (2.82%) SAS
5 8 (1.88%) Apache
6 6 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.94%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.47%) CMS
8 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.23%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.23%) Documentum
9 1 (0.23%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 12 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.94%) Trello
4 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.17%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 132 (30.99%) Azure
2 70 (16.43%) AWS
3 55 (12.91%) Power Platform
4 46 (10.80%) GCP
5 28 (6.57%) Snowflake
6 26 (6.10%) Collibra
7 24 (5.63%) Matillion
7 24 (5.63%) Microsoft Purview
7 24 (5.63%) Serverless
8 22 (5.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 19 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (3.99%) GitHub
12 11 (2.58%) PaaS
13 9 (2.11%) SaaS
14 8 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.88%) dbt
15 7 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (1.64%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (1.64%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.26%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.47%) WebEx
3 1 (0.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (18.31%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (15.02%) Data Lake
3 50 (11.74%) Power BI
4 28 (6.57%) SQL Server
5 25 (5.87%) Relational Database
6 22 (5.16%) Big Data
7 18 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 14 (3.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 13 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.58%) Data Hub
10 11 (2.58%) Delta Lake
10 11 (2.58%) Metadata Repository
11 10 (2.35%) Ataccama
12 8 (1.88%) Data Vault
12 8 (1.88%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 7 (1.64%) Tableau
14 6 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 84 (19.72%) Git
2 75 (17.61%) Jenkins
3 65 (15.26%) Artifactory
3 65 (15.26%) Bitbucket
4 15 (3.52%) JIRA
5 9 (2.11%) GitLab
6 7 (1.64%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.70%) ERwin
8 2 (0.47%) Ant
8 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.47%) Subversion
9 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.23%) JMeter
9 1 (0.23%) Postman
9 1 (0.23%) Toad
General
1 185 (43.43%) Finance
2 117 (27.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 95 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (21.36%) Social Skills
5 88 (20.66%) Marketing
6 76 (17.84%) Law
7 52 (12.21%) Banking
8 18 (4.23%) Legal
9 17 (3.99%) Public Sector
9 17 (3.99%) Retail Banking
10 15 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.05%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (1.88%) Retail
14 7 (1.64%) Billing
15 6 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.94%) Wearables
17 3 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (41.55%) Architect
2 152 (35.68%) Data Architect
3 120 (28.17%) Senior
4 85 (19.95%) Lead
5 72 (16.90%) Software Engineer
6 67 (15.73%) Lead Software Engineer
7 51 (11.97%) Senior Architect
7 51 (11.97%) Senior Data Architect
8 46 (10.80%) Data Engineer
9 45 (10.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 35 (8.22%) Analyst
11 29 (6.81%) Data Analyst
12 21 (4.93%) Data Manager
13 17 (3.99%) Enterprise Architect
13 17 (3.99%) Salesforce Architect
14 16 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (3.52%) Azure Data Engineer
15 15 (3.52%) DevOps Architect
15 15 (3.52%) Enterprise Data Architect
16 12 (2.82%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.61%) XML
2 70 (16.43%) Web Services
3 67 (15.73%) JSON
4 65 (15.26%) JSON-LD
4 65 (15.26%) LDAP
4 65 (15.26%) OpenID
4 65 (15.26%) RESTful
4 65 (15.26%) SAML
5 8 (1.88%) .NET
6 6 (1.41%) Anaconda
6 6 (1.41%) Flask
6 6 (1.41%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (1.41%) Pandas
6 6 (1.41%) Plotly
6 6 (1.41%) SQLAlchemy
7 5 (1.17%) HTML
7 5 (1.17%) Itk
7 5 (1.17%) J2EE
7 5 (1.17%) Kafka
8 4 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 127 (29.81%) Management Information System
2 83 (19.48%) Reference Data
3 65 (15.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 27 (6.34%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.52%) PlayStation
7 12 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.88%) Blog
9 8 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.64%) NHS
11 6 (1.41%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.41%) Taxonomies
12 5 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.58%) Windows
2 3 (0.70%) Linux
2 3 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.47%) Android
3 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (61.74%) Data Modelling
2 197 (46.24%) Agile
3 184 (43.19%) Metadata Management
4 153 (35.92%) Data Management
5 149 (34.98%) Data Architecture
6 145 (34.04%) Analytics
7 132 (30.99%) Data Pipeline
8 114 (26.76%) Data Governance
9 104 (24.41%) Data Strategy
9 104 (24.41%) Roadmaps
10 102 (23.94%) CI/CD
11 96 (22.54%) SDLC
12 95 (22.30%) Software Engineering
13 91 (21.36%) Use Case
14 90 (21.13%) Business Intelligence
14 90 (21.13%) DevOps
15 80 (18.78%) Data Transformation
15 80 (18.78%) ETL
16 78 (18.31%) Architectural Design
16 78 (18.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 130 (30.52%) SQL
2 65 (15.26%) Go
2 65 (15.26%) Prolog
2 65 (15.26%) SPARQL
3 59 (13.85%) Python
4 41 (9.62%) T-SQL
5 24 (5.63%) Java
6 10 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.88%) R
7 8 (1.88%) Scala
8 5 (1.17%) C
8 5 (1.17%) C++
8 5 (1.17%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.94%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.94%) C#
9 4 (0.94%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.70%) VBA
11 2 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
11 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (8.69%) Degree
2 22 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.99%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.29%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.29%) Security Cleared
6 13 (3.05%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.17%) MCAD
8 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.94%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) HND
11 1 (0.23%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (34.27%) Data Quality
2 49 (11.50%) GDPR
3 6 (1.41%) GRC
4 5 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.94%) QA
6 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.70%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (0.47%) HL7
7 2 (0.47%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (15.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.05%) Terraform
2 3 (0.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.47%) WebSphere Cast Iron
4 1 (0.23%) Control-M
Vendors
1 77 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 59 (13.85%) Databricks
3 32 (7.51%) Oracle
4 20 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 19 (4.46%) Google
6 18 (4.23%) IBM
7 17 (3.99%) Informatica
8 16 (3.76%) Facebook
9 15 (3.52%) Sony
10 11 (2.58%) SAP
11 4 (0.94%) Adobe
11 4 (0.94%) ESRI
11 4 (0.94%) Talend
12 3 (0.70%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.47%) Ab Initio
13 2 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
13 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.47%) SnapLogic