Metadata Jobs in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 524 583
Rank change year-on-year -15 +59 -6
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 237 217 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.91% 1.99% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 133 132 141
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £52,325 £51,063 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,249 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% +0.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,066 £90,000
UK median annual salary £68,937 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.34% +11.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,407 10,930 16,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.33% 19.33% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,121 6,530 10,124
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Scotland -10 70 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Midlands +13 62 £55,000 - 9
West Midlands +13 58 £57,500 - 8
North of England +47 51 £70,000 +7.69% 13
South East -31 37 £85,000 +1.49% 14
North West +16 31 £100,000 +92.31% 10
Yorkshire +57 13 £60,000 -19.46% 2
South West -59 13 £68,937 +14.42% 2
North East -10 7 £42,500 +7.66% 1
East Midlands -19 4 £50,000 +0.54% 1
East of England -13 3 £31,000 -43.64% 6
Wales +4 1 £47,500 -15.75% 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.53%) Confluence
2 6 (2.53%) SAS
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.42%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.43%) Azure
2 44 (18.57%) Power Platform
3 24 (10.13%) Snowflake
4 22 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (9.28%) Matillion
5 15 (6.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (5.91%) Serverless
7 12 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.64%) Collibra
9 10 (4.22%) AWS
10 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.95%) SaaS
11 5 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.69%) Alation
12 4 (1.69%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (1.69%) GitHub
12 4 (1.69%) Google Docs
12 4 (1.69%) Google Sheets
13 3 (1.27%) OCI
14 2 (0.84%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (27.43%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (22.78%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (18.57%) Power BI
3 43 (18.14%) Data Lake
4 21 (8.86%) SQL Server
5 19 (8.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (7.17%) Relational Database
7 15 (6.33%) Big Data
7 15 (6.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 6 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.69%) OLAP
10 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.27%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.27%) Oracle OLAP
11 3 (1.27%) SAS EBI
12 2 (0.84%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 74 (31.22%) Git
2 67 (28.27%) Jenkins
3 65 (27.43%) Artifactory
3 65 (27.43%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.53%) JIRA
5 2 (0.84%) Spinnaker
General
1 128 (54.01%) Finance
2 78 (32.91%) Marketing
3 71 (29.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 65 (27.43%) Law
5 47 (19.83%) Social Skills
6 38 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (7.17%) Banking
8 12 (5.06%) Legal
9 11 (4.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (2.53%) Billing
10 6 (2.53%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.69%) Wearables
12 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Publishing
14 1 (0.42%) Electronics
14 1 (0.42%) Local Government
14 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (36.71%) Architect
1 87 (36.71%) Data Architect
2 76 (32.07%) Lead
3 67 (28.27%) Senior
3 67 (28.27%) Software Engineer
4 65 (27.43%) Lead Software Engineer
5 42 (17.72%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (10.55%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.17%) Senior Architect
7 17 (7.17%) Senior Data Architect
8 14 (5.91%) Enterprise Architect
8 14 (5.91%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 12 (5.06%) Azure Data Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.64%) Data Manager
11 9 (3.80%) Analyst
12 8 (3.38%) Data Analyst
13 7 (2.95%) Consultant
14 6 (2.53%) Junior
14 6 (2.53%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (27.43%) JSON
1 65 (27.43%) JSON-LD
1 65 (27.43%) LDAP
1 65 (27.43%) OpenID
1 65 (27.43%) RESTful
1 65 (27.43%) SAML
1 65 (27.43%) Web Services
1 65 (27.43%) XML
2 4 (1.69%) PySpark
3 2 (0.84%) Kafka
3 2 (0.84%) SPFx
4 1 (0.42%) EDI
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.42%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 114 (48.10%) Management Information System
2 66 (27.85%) Reference Data
3 65 (27.43%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (5.06%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.38%) Blog
5 8 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.38%) NHS
6 6 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.69%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.69%) Photography
8 3 (1.27%) Life Science
8 3 (1.27%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.84%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.84%) PACS
9 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.84%) Social Media
10 1 (0.42%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.95%) Windows
2 3 (1.27%) Linux
2 3 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (72.15%) Data Modelling
2 128 (54.01%) Agile
3 97 (40.93%) Data Pipeline
4 87 (36.71%) Roadmaps
5 85 (35.86%) Analytics
5 85 (35.86%) Metadata Management
6 84 (35.44%) Data Architecture
7 82 (34.60%) CI/CD
7 82 (34.60%) Data Management
7 82 (34.60%) SDLC
8 72 (30.38%) Software Engineering
9 71 (29.96%) Data Transformation
10 69 (29.11%) Information Architecture
10 69 (29.11%) Use Case
11 66 (27.85%) Ontologies
12 65 (27.43%) Community of Practice
12 65 (27.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 65 (27.43%) Operational Stability
12 65 (27.43%) RDF
12 65 (27.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (27.43%) Go
1 65 (27.43%) Prolog
1 65 (27.43%) SPARQL
2 62 (26.16%) SQL
3 40 (16.88%) T-SQL
4 8 (3.38%) Python
5 2 (0.84%) Ladder Logic
5 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (4.64%) Degree
2 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (31.65%) Data Quality
2 45 (18.99%) GDPR
3 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.27%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) GRC
5 2 (0.84%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 65 (27.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (5.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (17.30%) Databricks
2 36 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 12 (5.06%) Oracle
4 10 (4.22%) Informatica
5 6 (2.53%) Google
6 4 (1.69%) Adobe
6 4 (1.69%) Talend
7 2 (0.84%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.84%) Siemens
8 1 (0.42%) ESRI
8 1 (0.42%) SAP
8 1 (0.42%) Sparx