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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 264 | 235 | 311 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -29 | +76 | -116 |
| Permanent jobs citing Metadata | 76 | 56 | 19 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the South East | 0.39% | 0.63% | 0.17% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | 5.99% | 5.35% | 1.03% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 59 | 12 | 16 |
| 10th Percentile | £34,250 | £31,250 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £52,500 | £40,625 | £37,250 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £62,500 | £48,250 | £38,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +29.53% | +25.32% | -33.04% |
| 75th Percentile | £72,500 | £67,563 | £39,813 |
| 90th Percentile | £76,550 | £67,750 | £66,822 |
| England median annual salary | £75,000 | £63,500 | £62,500 |
| % change year-on-year | +18.11% | +1.60% | -7.41% |
All Database & 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.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills | 1,268 | 1,046 | 1,837 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East | 6.43% | 11.68% | 15.99% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 999 | 588 | 1,033 |
| 10th Percentile | £36,250 | £30,350 | £36,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £45,000 | £37,500 | £42,500 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £56,200 | £55,000 | £54,835 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +2.18% | +0.30% | -0.30% |
| 75th Percentile | £72,500 | £69,051 | £68,750 |
| 90th Percentile | £83,826 | £82,500 | £83,750 |
| England median annual salary | £60,000 | £60,000 | £65,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | -7.69% | +4.00% |
Metadata 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 Salary Trend in the South East
Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Metadata.
Metadata Salary Histogram in the South East
Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the South East over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.
Metadata 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 October 2026. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire | -23 | 29 | £64,000 | -22.42% | 5 |
| Thames Valley | -47 | 24 | £62,500 | +27.55% | 19 |
| Oxfordshire | - | 10 | £62,500 | - | 6 |
| Surrey | - | 9 | £64,000 | - | 10 |
| Buckinghamshire | -6 | 8 | £77,500 | +58.16% | |
| West Sussex | -21 | 6 | £75,000 | +130.77% | 5 |
| Berkshire | -30 | 6 | £80,000 | +70.21% | 13 |
| Kent | -11 | 4 | - | - | 1 |
| East Sussex | - | 3 | £35,500 | - | |
| Sussex | - | 2 | £35,500 | - | 1 |
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Metadata Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Database & Business Intelligence
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Power BI | 22.4% | 17 |
| 2 | Star Schema | 18.4% | 14 |
| 3 | Data Warehouse | 17.1% | 13 |
| 4 | Amazon QuickSight | 11.8% | 9 |
| 4 | Azure SQL Database | 11.8% | 9 |
| 4 | DynamoDB | 11.8% | 9 |
| 4 | MongoDB | 11.8% | 9 |
| 4 | NoSQL | 11.8% | 9 |
| 4 | Snowflake Schema | 11.8% | 9 |
| 4 | SQL Server | 11.8% | 9 |
| 11 | Power Query | 5.3% | 4 |
| 12 | Data Lake | 2.6% | 2 |
| 13 | Amazon Athena | 1.3% | 1 |
| 13 | Amazon RDS | 1.3% | 1 |
| 13 | Amazon Redshift | 1.3% | 1 |