Metadata Management Jobs

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 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 719 786 876
Rank change year-on-year +67 +90 -51
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 190 162 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 138 85 247
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,200 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,125 £65,299
% change year-on-year +24.74% -7.92% +29.30%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 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
England +64 177 £80,000 +23.08% 38
London +145 92 £80,000 +16.24% 23
UK excluding London -19 85 £75,000 +24.74% 19
Work from Home +20 61 £80,000 +19.67% 24
South East +1 32 £85,000 -15.00% 4
North of England +51 30 £96,389 +85.36% 7
North West +8 17 £100,000 +92.31% 4
Midlands -11 15 £60,000 +20.32% 1
West Midlands -10 14 £60,000 +17.07% 1
Yorkshire +67 9 £60,000 -7.69% 2
South West -35 6 £75,000 -36.12% 1
North East -8 4 £42,500 - 1
Scotland -65 2 £73,750 - 4
East Midlands -20 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 (5.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.74%) Apache
3 7 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.68%) SAS
4 6 (3.16%) Confluence
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.63%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 90 (47.37%) Azure
2 49 (25.79%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.95%) AWS
4 27 (14.21%) GCP
5 24 (12.63%) Snowflake
6 23 (12.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (11.58%) Matillion
8 19 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (9.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (9.47%) Collibra
10 17 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (7.89%) Serverless
12 12 (6.32%) GitHub
13 7 (3.68%) Alation
13 7 (3.68%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (3.68%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (3.68%) Dagster
13 7 (3.68%) dbt
13 7 (3.68%) Prefect
14 6 (3.16%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (100.00%) Metadata
2 58 (30.53%) Data Lake
3 55 (28.95%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (23.16%) Power BI
5 23 (12.11%) Relational Database
6 20 (10.53%) SQL Server
7 18 (9.47%) Big Data
8 16 (8.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (8.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (5.79%) Ataccama
10 9 (4.74%) NoSQL
11 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.21%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (3.68%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.63%) Metadata Repository
14 3 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.58%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.58%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Git
1 8 (4.21%) GitLab
2 6 (3.16%) JIRA
3 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.11%) Spinnaker
4 3 (1.58%) ERwin
5 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 94 (49.47%) Finance
2 75 (39.47%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (27.89%) Social Skills
4 39 (20.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (18.95%) Banking
6 17 (8.95%) Financial Institution
6 17 (8.95%) Retail Banking
7 9 (4.74%) Law
7 9 (4.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.68%) Billing
8 7 (3.68%) Legal
9 5 (2.63%) Marketing
9 5 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.11%) Wearables
11 3 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 87 (45.79%) Architect
2 83 (43.68%) Data Architect
3 56 (29.47%) Senior
4 37 (19.47%) Senior Architect
4 37 (19.47%) Senior Data Architect
5 29 (15.26%) Data Engineer
6 28 (14.74%) Analyst
7 23 (12.11%) Data Analyst
8 15 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
8 15 (7.89%) Enterprise Architect
8 15 (7.89%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 14 (7.37%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (6.84%) Governance Analyst
10 13 (6.84%) Lead
10 13 (6.84%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (5.79%) Data Manager
12 9 (4.74%) Banking Analyst
13 8 (4.21%) Data Governance Analyst
13 8 (4.21%) Data Governance Manager
13 8 (4.21%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.16%) .NET
1 6 (3.16%) Lambda Expressions
2 5 (2.63%) J2EE
3 2 (1.05%) Great Expectations
3 2 (1.05%) SPFx
3 2 (1.05%) XML
4 1 (0.53%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.53%) FHIR
4 1 (0.53%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.53%) JSON
4 1 (0.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.89%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.95%) Reference Data
3 16 (8.42%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.21%) NHS
7 6 (3.16%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (2.11%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.58%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.58%) iPhone
10 3 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
11 2 (1.05%) W3C
12 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.11%) Windows
2 3 (1.58%) Android
2 3 (1.58%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (60.53%) Data Modelling
2 99 (52.11%) Data Management
3 94 (49.47%) Analytics
4 92 (48.42%) Data Governance
5 91 (47.89%) Data Architecture
6 90 (47.37%) Agile
7 86 (45.26%) Data Strategy
8 77 (40.53%) Business Intelligence
9 57 (30.00%) Data Analysis
10 56 (29.47%) DevOps
11 49 (25.79%) Logical Data Model
12 48 (25.26%) ETL
13 41 (21.58%) Physical Data Model
14 40 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (19.47%) Roadmaps
16 36 (18.95%) Data Design
16 36 (18.95%) Data Privacy
17 35 (18.42%) DataOps
18 31 (16.32%) Strategic Roadmap
19 28 (14.74%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 83 (43.68%) SQL
2 36 (18.95%) T-SQL
3 21 (11.05%) Python
4 15 (7.89%) Java
5 4 (2.11%) R
6 3 (1.58%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.05%) C#
7 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (11.05%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.95%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.26%) Degree
4 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.58%) 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
1 122 (64.21%) Data Quality
2 32 (16.84%) GDPR
3 6 (3.16%) GRC
4 3 (1.58%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (1.05%) HL7
6 1 (0.53%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
Systems Management
1 14 (7.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (33.68%) Microsoft
2 41 (21.58%) Databricks
3 11 (5.79%) Oracle
4 10 (5.26%) Informatica
5 6 (3.16%) SAP
6 5 (2.63%) Google
7 4 (2.11%) Talend
8 3 (1.58%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.58%) Cisco
8 3 (1.58%) iManage
9 2 (1.05%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.05%) SnapLogic
9 2 (1.05%) Sparx
10 1 (0.53%) Marketo
10 1 (0.53%) Remedy
10 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow