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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 317 262
Rank change year-on-year +90 -55 +159
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 63 19 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 0.15% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 0.97% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 12
10th Percentile £31,250 - £51,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £38,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -34.47% -16.07%
75th Percentile £63,891 £39,750 £90,313
90th Percentile £83,750 £65,500 £99,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

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 1,150 1,965 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.76% 15.28% 20.76%
Number of salaries quoted 598 1,186 1,397
10th Percentile £30,350 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £39,531 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,533 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.17% +7.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +35 51 £49,000 +27.27% 29
Berkshire +35 49 £55,565 +44.32% 23
Hampshire +50 3 £82,500 +114.29% 2
West Sussex - 3 £32,500 -
Buckinghamshire -8 2 £48,250 - 5
Kent - 2 £65,000 -
Middlesex - 2 - - 5
Surrey - 2 £115,000 - 1
Metadata
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (4.76%) CMS
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Maximo
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.86%) AWS
2 26 (41.27%) Azure
3 24 (38.10%) GCP
3 24 (38.10%) Snowflake
4 14 (22.22%) Salsify
5 3 (4.76%) Google Analytics
5 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.59%) H2O.ai
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) ADSL2
1 1 (1.59%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (47.62%) Data Lake
2 27 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.76%) Power BI
3 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.76%) Tableau
4 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.17%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.17%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.59%) MySQL
5 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.59%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.59%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) MLflow
2 1 (1.59%) ER Studio
General
1 41 (65.08%) Law
2 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 19 (30.16%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (26.98%) Marketing
5 14 (22.22%) Legal
6 8 (12.70%) Retail
7 7 (11.11%) Finance
8 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Games
9 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (65.08%) Senior
2 31 (49.21%) Lead
3 14 (22.22%) Senior Manager
4 3 (4.76%) Architect
4 3 (4.76%) Data Architect
4 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 2 (3.17%) Data Engineer
5 2 (3.17%) Developer
5 2 (3.17%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (3.17%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (3.17%) Scientific Software Developer
5 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
5 2 (3.17%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (3.17%) Software Developer
6 1 (1.59%) Analyst
6 1 (1.59%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (1.59%) Lead Enterprise Architect
6 1 (1.59%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (1.59%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) FHIR
2 3 (4.76%) Keras
2 3 (4.76%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.76%) TensorFlow
3 2 (3.17%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (3.17%) Metaflow
3 2 (3.17%) NumPy
3 2 (3.17%) Pandas
3 2 (3.17%) PySpark
3 2 (3.17%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.17%) YAML
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Jena
4 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.40%) Management Information System
2 14 (22.22%) Taxonomies
3 5 (7.94%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.94%) Life Science
3 5 (7.94%) Omics
4 3 (4.76%) Blog
4 3 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.76%) FMCG
5 2 (3.17%) Acoustics
5 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Unix
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (84.13%) Metadata Management
2 52 (82.54%) Analytics
3 45 (71.43%) Data Management
4 41 (65.08%) Matrix Organization
5 38 (60.32%) Data Governance
6 33 (52.38%) Data Architecture
6 33 (52.38%) Data Modelling
7 30 (47.62%) Data Strategy
8 28 (44.44%) Data Engineering
8 28 (44.44%) Master Data Management
9 27 (42.86%) Data Stewardship
9 27 (42.86%) ETL
10 26 (41.27%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (39.68%) Data Transformation
11 25 (39.68%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (39.68%) Validation
12 24 (38.10%) Anomaly Detection
12 24 (38.10%) Artificial Intelligence
12 24 (38.10%) Asset Management
12 24 (38.10%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) SQL
2 30 (47.62%) Python
3 2 (3.17%) Bash
3 2 (3.17%) C
3 2 (3.17%) C++
3 2 (3.17%) Fortran
4 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.59%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 37 (58.73%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) PhD
3 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) MCSE
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.59%) OCP
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (71.43%) Data Quality
2 29 (46.03%) Accessibility
3 25 (39.68%) QA
4 5 (7.94%) CDISC
4 5 (7.94%) GxP
4 5 (7.94%) HL7
5 1 (1.59%) Dublin Core
5 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubeflow
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (6.35%) Databricks
2 3 (4.76%) Google
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.17%) Talend
4 1 (1.59%) Dell
4 1 (1.59%) ESRI
4 1 (1.59%) IBM
4 1 (1.59%) Informatica
4 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.59%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce