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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 308 199
Rank change year-on-year +74 -109 +181
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 56 19 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.63% 0.16% 1.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.28% 1.02% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 11
10th Percentile £31,250 - £46,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £37,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £38,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% -33.04% -14.50%
75th Percentile £67,563 £39,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £67,750 £66,822 £100,000
England median annual salary £64,350 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.96% -7.41% -3.57%

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 1,060 1,861 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.85% 16.07% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 587 1,052 1,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,668 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -0.60% -
75th Percentile £69,102 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,350
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

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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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +45 46 £49,000 +27.27% 18
Berkshire +36 40 £47,000 +22.08% 13
Buckinghamshire +8 6 £49,000 - 3
Hampshire +47 3 £82,500 +114.29% 2
West Sussex - 3 £32,500 - 1
Kent - 2 £65,000 - 2
Middlesex - 2 - - 1
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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 3 (5.36%) CMS
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.79%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Maximo
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.00%) Azure
1 14 (25.00%) Salsify
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) GCP
3 9 (16.07%) Snowflake
4 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.36%) Collibra
5 3 (5.36%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.79%) H2O.ai
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) ADSL2
1 1 (1.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.71%) Data Lake
2 18 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.71%) Power BI
3 6 (10.71%) Tableau
4 4 (7.14%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (5.36%) Data Mining
5 3 (5.36%) SAP BW
5 3 (5.36%) SAP HANA
6 2 (3.57%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.57%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.79%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) ERwin
1 3 (5.36%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (3.57%) MLflow
3 1 (1.79%) ER Studio
General
1 37 (66.07%) Social Skills
2 26 (46.43%) Law
3 22 (39.29%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (30.36%) Marketing
5 14 (25.00%) Legal
6 12 (21.43%) Finance
7 8 (14.29%) Retail
8 3 (5.36%) Publishing
9 1 (1.79%) Games
9 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Senior
2 22 (39.29%) Lead
3 16 (28.57%) Senior Manager
4 5 (8.93%) Data Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Data Model Manager
6 3 (5.36%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.36%) SAP Data Manager
6 3 (5.36%) SAP Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.36%) SAP Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Business Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) FHIR
2 3 (5.36%) Keras
2 3 (5.36%) PyTorch
2 3 (5.36%) TensorFlow
3 2 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (3.57%) Metaflow
3 2 (3.57%) NumPy
3 2 (3.57%) Pandas
3 2 (3.57%) PySpark
3 2 (3.57%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.14%) Management Information System
2 14 (25.00%) Taxonomies
3 10 (17.86%) Algorithms
3 10 (17.86%) Life Science
3 10 (17.86%) Omics
4 3 (5.36%) Blog
4 3 (5.36%) FMCG
4 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.79%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (85.71%) Analytics
2 42 (75.00%) Metadata Management
3 34 (60.71%) Data Governance
4 32 (57.14%) Data Management
5 28 (50.00%) AI
6 27 (48.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (46.43%) Matrix Organization
8 25 (44.64%) Data Architecture
9 22 (39.29%) Data Modelling
9 22 (39.29%) Roadmaps
10 20 (35.71%) Content Management
10 20 (35.71%) Data Strategy
11 19 (33.93%) Data Integration
11 19 (33.93%) Translating Business Requirements
12 18 (32.14%) Strategic Roadmap
13 17 (30.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (30.36%) Data Privacy
13 17 (30.36%) ETL
13 17 (30.36%) Master Data Management
13 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) SQL
2 15 (26.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (48.21%) Degree
2 10 (17.86%) PhD
3 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.36%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.36%) PMP
4 3 (5.36%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.79%) CISSP
5 1 (1.79%) MCSE
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.79%) OCP
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (66.07%) Data Quality
2 22 (39.29%) Accessibility
3 10 (17.86%) CDISC
3 10 (17.86%) GxP
3 10 (17.86%) HL7
4 9 (16.07%) QA
5 1 (1.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Kubeflow
1 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Databricks
2 3 (5.36%) Google
2 3 (5.36%) SAP
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) Dell
4 1 (1.79%) ESRI
4 1 (1.79%) IBM
4 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.79%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) Talend