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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 226 317
Rank change year-on-year -38 +91 -57
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 64 62 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.36% 0.69% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.75% 5.42% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 53 10 15
10th Percentile £35,650 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £34,375 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,283 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% +35.80% -53.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,696 £39,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,875 £65,500
England median annual salary £70,752 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.85% - -1.89%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,346 1,143 1,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.51% 12.74% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 593 1,220
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,565 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +1.03% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.83% -5.00% +0.78%

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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 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 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
Thames Valley -12 23 £62,500 +19.54% 26
Hampshire -40 18 £64,000 -22.42% 18
Oxfordshire - 11 £62,500 - 9
Buckinghamshire 0 10 £77,500 +60.62% 8
West Sussex -11 7 £73,750 +126.92% 3
Surrey -32 6 £65,000 -43.48% 8
Kent -16 5 £68,500 +5.38% 5
East Sussex - 4 £35,500 -
Berkshire -21 2 £82,500 +48.47% 12
Sussex - 2 £35,500 -
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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 10 (15.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Shopify
2 1 (1.56%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) Azure
2 16 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (20.31%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (20.31%) Collibra
4 12 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (15.63%) Google Analytics
6 9 (14.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (10.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (9.38%) Power Automate
8 6 (9.38%) PowerApps
9 5 (7.81%) Alation
10 4 (6.25%) Google Tag Manager
11 2 (3.13%) AWS
11 2 (3.13%) Azure Databricks
11 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (15.63%) Power BI
1 10 (15.63%) Star Schema
2 8 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.94%) Amazon QuickSight
3 7 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (10.94%) DynamoDB
3 7 (10.94%) MongoDB
3 7 (10.94%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.13%) Power Query
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.44%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Marketing
3 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (14.06%) Law
4 9 (14.06%) Retail
5 4 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.56%) Japanese Language
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) Lead
2 16 (25.00%) Senior
3 14 (21.88%) Analyst
4 13 (20.31%) Architect
5 11 (17.19%) Data Architect
6 8 (12.50%) Data Analyst
7 7 (10.94%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (10.94%) Developer
8 6 (9.38%) E-Commerce Executive
8 6 (9.38%) Governance Analyst
9 5 (7.81%) Lead Developer
9 5 (7.81%) SharePoint Developer
10 4 (6.25%) SEO Executive
11 3 (4.69%) Business Process Analyst
11 3 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Process Analyst
12 2 (3.13%) Analyst Developer
12 2 (3.13%) Business Developer
12 2 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
12 2 (3.13%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) .NET
1 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET
1 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET Core
1 5 (7.81%) React
1 5 (7.81%) SPFx
2 3 (4.69%) PySpark
3 1 (1.56%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.94%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (10.94%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (9.38%) Taxonomies
4 4 (6.25%) Blog
5 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) Clustering
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Data Modelling
2 24 (37.50%) Agile
3 22 (34.38%) Data Governance
4 21 (32.81%) Analytics
5 20 (31.25%) Data Architecture
5 20 (31.25%) Scrum
6 17 (26.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 16 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 15 (23.44%) DevOps
8 15 (23.44%) ETL
9 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
9 13 (20.31%) Data Management
10 12 (18.75%) Logical Data Model
11 11 (17.19%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (17.19%) AI
11 11 (17.19%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (17.19%) Metadata Management
11 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (15.63%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) SQL
2 13 (20.31%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) C#
4 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) Degree
2 8 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) CBAP
5 1 (1.56%) CCA
5 1 (1.56%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (35.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.50%) GDPR
3 7 (10.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.56%) NIST
5 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 19 (29.69%) Microsoft
2 16 (25.00%) Databricks
3 13 (20.31%) Informatica
4 10 (15.63%) Google
5 7 (10.94%) Talend
6 4 (6.25%) Ahrefs
6 4 (6.25%) Screaming Frog
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle