Metadata Job Trends in the South East

Metadata
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 285 190
Rank change year-on-year +86 -95 +133
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 70 23 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.68% 0.24% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.06% 1.31% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 19
10th Percentile £31,250 - £50,350
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £38,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -45.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £42,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £67,750 £60,551 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £59,562 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -14.91% +3.70%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 992 1,750 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.57% 18.55% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 553 951 1,103
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,911 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £84,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -3.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Metadata relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Metadata job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Metadata

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the South East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Thames Valley +38 37 £53,500 +38.96% 8
Berkshire +26 26 £47,000 +22.08% 4
Kent - 25 - -
Buckinghamshire - 10 £58,000 - 3
West Sussex +3 3 £32,500 -23.53%
Hampshire +28 2 - - 3
East Sussex +11 2 £53,750 +8.63% 1
Oxfordshire +15 1 - - 1
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
Metadata
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.71%) CMS
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (12.86%) Veeva
2 8 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.00%) Azure
4 5 (7.14%) AWS
5 3 (4.29%) Collibra
5 3 (4.29%) Google Analytics
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.43%) dbt
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) H2O.ai
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Broadband
1 1 (1.43%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) Data Lake
2 10 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.00%) Power BI
3 7 (10.00%) Tableau
4 5 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (4.29%) Data Mining
5 3 (4.29%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (4.29%) SAP BW
5 3 (4.29%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.86%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.86%) Spark SQL
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.43%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) ERwin
1 3 (4.29%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (2.86%) Git
2 2 (2.86%) MLflow
3 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.00%) Finance
3 12 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.71%) Marketing
6 3 (4.29%) Law
6 3 (4.29%) Publishing
7 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Games
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Data Manager
2 20 (28.57%) Lead
3 15 (21.43%) Senior
4 13 (18.57%) Data Steward
4 13 (18.57%) Senior Manager
5 11 (15.71%) Coordinator
5 11 (15.71%) Data Coordinator
6 7 (10.00%) Analyst
6 7 (10.00%) Team Leader
7 6 (8.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 4 (5.71%) Business Manager
9 4 (5.71%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Business Manager
10 3 (4.29%) Data Model Manager
10 3 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
10 3 (4.29%) SAP Data Manager
10 3 (4.29%) SAP Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) FHIR
2 3 (4.29%) Keras
2 3 (4.29%) PySpark
2 3 (4.29%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.29%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (2.86%) Metaflow
3 2 (2.86%) NumPy
3 2 (2.86%) Pandas
3 2 (2.86%) REST
3 2 (2.86%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.86%) YAML
4 1 (1.43%) HTML
4 1 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.43%) Middleware
4 1 (1.43%) Snowpark
4 1 (1.43%) SOAP
4 1 (1.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 33 (47.14%) Life Science
2 22 (31.43%) Management Information System
3 11 (15.71%) Algorithms
4 10 (14.29%) Omics
5 9 (12.86%) Biopharmaceutical
6 4 (5.71%) Blog
7 3 (4.29%) FMCG
7 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
7 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.43%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) Data Governance
2 36 (51.43%) Analytics
3 32 (45.71%) Data Management
4 27 (38.57%) Master Data Management
5 25 (35.71%) Metadata Management
6 24 (34.29%) Data Modelling
7 21 (30.00%) Data Science
8 20 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
9 17 (24.29%) AI
9 17 (24.29%) Decision-Making
9 17 (24.29%) Digital Transformation Strategy
10 16 (22.86%) Data Architecture
10 16 (22.86%) Hematology
10 16 (22.86%) Immunology
10 16 (22.86%) Machine Learning
11 15 (21.43%) Computer Science
11 15 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (18.57%) ETL
13 12 (17.14%) Change Management
13 12 (17.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.00%) SQL
2 12 (17.14%) Python
3 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.43%) Java
3 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (61.43%) Degree
2 21 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 10 (14.29%) PhD
4 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.29%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.29%) PMP
5 3 (4.29%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.86%) CISSP
6 2 (2.86%) MCSE
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.86%) OCP
6 2 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (58.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (18.57%) Accessibility
3 10 (14.29%) CDISC
3 10 (14.29%) GxP
3 10 (14.29%) HL7
4 3 (4.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.86%) Kubeflow
1 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) Control-M
2 1 (1.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (7.14%) Google
2 4 (5.71%) Databricks
3 3 (4.29%) SAP
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Ahrefs
5 1 (1.43%) Dell
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) Screaming Frog
5 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow