Metadata Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 705 808 859
Rank change year-on-year +103 +51 -54
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 187 169 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 136 104 245
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,150 £50,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £58,464
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £64,691 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.80% -13.75% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,313 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £104,375 £114,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £60,050
% change year-on-year +33.33% -0.08% +18.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Metadata Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management.

Salary trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
England +104 172 £80,000 +23.66% 49
London +124 87 £82,500 +20.08% 31
UK excluding London -11 85 £80,000 +33.33% 26
Work from Home +50 61 £85,000 +30.08% 24
South East +9 32 £85,000 +30.77% 9
North of England +71 31 £92,778 +78.42% 8
North West +16 18 £100,000 +92.31% 2
Midlands -7 14 £61,250 +22.83% 3
West Midlands +15 13 £60,000 +17.07% 3
Yorkshire +87 9 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South West -31 6 £75,000 -36.12% 3
North East - 4 £42,500 - 3
Scotland -61 2 £73,750 - 1
East Midlands -9 1 £62,500 +39.31%

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.35%) Confluence
3 9 (4.81%) Apache
4 8 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (3.74%) SAS
6 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.07%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (51.87%) Azure
2 49 (26.20%) Power Platform
3 36 (19.25%) AWS
4 29 (15.51%) GCP
5 25 (13.37%) Snowflake
6 23 (12.30%) Matillion
6 23 (12.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 20 (10.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (10.16%) Collibra
9 18 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (8.56%) GitHub
10 16 (8.56%) Serverless
11 7 (3.74%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (3.74%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (3.74%) Dagster
11 7 (3.74%) dbt
11 7 (3.74%) Prefect
12 6 (3.21%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (3.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (100.00%) Metadata
2 58 (31.02%) Data Lake
3 54 (28.88%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (23.53%) Power BI
5 22 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 19 (10.16%) Big Data
6 19 (10.16%) SQL Server
7 15 (8.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 15 (8.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (5.35%) Ataccama
8 10 (5.35%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (4.28%) RDBMS
10 7 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (3.74%) Data Hub
10 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (2.67%) Data Vault
11 5 (2.67%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (2.14%) Delta Lake
12 4 (2.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (5.35%) JIRA
2 9 (4.81%) Git
3 8 (4.28%) GitLab
4 7 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.74%) Spinnaker
5 3 (1.60%) ERwin
6 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 94 (50.27%) Finance
2 76 (40.64%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 35 (18.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (18.18%) Banking
6 15 (8.02%) Financial Institution
6 15 (8.02%) Retail Banking
7 8 (4.28%) Law
7 8 (4.28%) Legal
7 8 (4.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.74%) Billing
9 5 (2.67%) Marketing
9 5 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.14%) Wearables
11 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.07%) Retail
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (45.45%) Architect
2 81 (43.32%) Data Architect
3 51 (27.27%) Senior
4 35 (18.72%) Senior Architect
4 35 (18.72%) Senior Data Architect
5 34 (18.18%) Data Engineer
6 22 (11.76%) Analyst
7 17 (9.09%) Data Analyst
7 17 (9.09%) Lead
8 16 (8.56%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (8.02%) Azure Data Engineer
9 15 (8.02%) Enterprise Architect
9 15 (8.02%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 11 (5.88%) Data Manager
11 10 (5.35%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.74%) Data Governance Analyst
12 7 (3.74%) Data Governance Manager
12 7 (3.74%) Governance Analyst
12 7 (3.74%) Governance Manager
13 6 (3.21%) Data Analytics Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.74%) .NET
2 6 (3.21%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (2.67%) J2EE
4 3 (1.60%) XML
5 2 (1.07%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.07%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.53%) FHIR
6 1 (0.53%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.53%) JSON
6 1 (0.53%) Kafka
6 1 (0.53%) PySpark
6 1 (0.53%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 20 (10.70%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.56%) Reference Data
4 11 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.81%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.28%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.74%) NHS
8 6 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (2.14%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.60%) IoT
11 3 (1.60%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.07%) e-Learning
12 2 (1.07%) iPhone
12 2 (1.07%) W3C
13 1 (0.53%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.14%) Windows
2 2 (1.07%) Android
2 2 (1.07%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (59.89%) Data Modelling
2 95 (50.80%) Data Management
3 94 (50.27%) Analytics
4 91 (48.66%) Agile
5 90 (48.13%) Data Architecture
6 87 (46.52%) Data Governance
7 85 (45.45%) Data Strategy
8 78 (41.71%) Business Intelligence
9 61 (32.62%) DevOps
10 53 (28.34%) Data Analysis
11 49 (26.20%) ETL
12 45 (24.06%) Logical Data Model
13 43 (22.99%) Data Pipeline
14 37 (19.79%) Data Design
14 37 (19.79%) Physical Data Model
15 36 (19.25%) Roadmaps
16 33 (17.65%) Data Privacy
17 31 (16.58%) Data Science
17 31 (16.58%) DataOps
18 30 (16.04%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 80 (42.78%) SQL
2 36 (19.25%) T-SQL
3 25 (13.37%) Python
4 16 (8.56%) Java
5 4 (2.14%) R
6 3 (1.60%) C#
6 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.07%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.07%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (10.16%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.02%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.35%) Degree
4 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) MCSE
6 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (61.50%) Data Quality
2 32 (17.11%) GDPR
3 6 (3.21%) GRC
4 3 (1.60%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (1.07%) HL7
5 2 (1.07%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (6.95%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 44 (23.53%) Databricks
3 11 (5.88%) Oracle
4 9 (4.81%) Google
5 8 (4.28%) Informatica
6 6 (3.21%) SAP
7 4 (2.14%) Talend
8 3 (1.60%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.07%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.07%) Cisco
9 2 (1.07%) iManage
9 2 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.07%) SnapLogic
9 2 (1.07%) Sparx
10 1 (0.53%) Apple
10 1 (0.53%) Facebook
10 1 (0.53%) IBM
10 1 (0.53%) Marketo
10 1 (0.53%) Remedy
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce