Metadata
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 527 505
Rank change year-on-year +9 -22 +92
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 422 501 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.51% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.31% 2.37% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 236 311 525
10th Percentile £39,125 £46,250 £41,350
25th Percentile £55,105 £53,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £103,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,249 £55,750
% change year-on-year +3.74% +8.07% +6.19%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,281 21,129 46,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.11% 21.45% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,536 13,165 21,039
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK

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Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Metadata in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK

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Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -7 314 £70,000 +3.70% 110
UK excluding London +32 237 £62,500 +3.74% 55
London +32 146 £77,500 +10.71% 63
Work from Home -49 116 £70,000 +2.79% 55
Scotland -2 70 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Midlands +20 62 £55,000 +4.76% 12
West Midlands +36 58 £57,500 +4.55% 12
North of England +51 51 £75,000 +15.38% 15
South East -13 37 £85,000 +3.03% 8
North West +20 31 £100,000 +92.31% 10
Yorkshire +74 13 £60,000 -19.46% 3
South West -43 13 £68,937 +14.42% 6
North East -6 7 £42,500 +7.66% 2
East Midlands -5 4 £50,000 +11.45%
East of England -3 3 £31,000 -43.64% 4
Wales +4 1 £47,500 -15.75% 4

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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 18 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.84%) SAS
3 11 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.61%) Confluence
4 9 (2.13%) Apache
5 6 (1.42%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.95%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.47%) CMS
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.24%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.24%) Documentum
8 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 12 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.95%) Trello
4 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.18%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.18%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 134 (31.75%) Azure
2 68 (16.11%) AWS
3 56 (13.27%) Power Platform
4 44 (10.43%) GCP
5 27 (6.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (6.40%) Snowflake
6 26 (6.16%) Collibra
7 25 (5.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 23 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (5.45%) Matillion
8 23 (5.45%) Serverless
9 19 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (3.55%) GitHub
11 11 (2.61%) PaaS
12 9 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.13%) SaaS
13 8 (1.90%) dbt
14 7 (1.66%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (1.66%) Dagster
14 7 (1.66%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.40%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.47%) WebEx
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (18.96%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (15.88%) Data Lake
3 51 (12.09%) Power BI
4 33 (7.82%) SQL Server
5 26 (6.16%) Relational Database
6 25 (5.92%) Big Data
7 20 (4.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (4.27%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (2.84%) Metadata Repository
10 12 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (2.61%) Ataccama
11 11 (2.61%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.90%) Data Hub
12 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (1.90%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.42%) Data Vault
14 6 (1.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (19.67%) Git
2 74 (17.54%) Jenkins
3 65 (15.40%) Artifactory
3 65 (15.40%) Bitbucket
4 11 (2.61%) JIRA
5 9 (2.13%) GitLab
6 6 (1.42%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.71%) ERwin
8 2 (0.47%) Ant
8 2 (0.47%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.47%) Subversion
9 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.24%) JMeter
9 1 (0.24%) Postman
9 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 182 (43.13%) Finance
2 120 (28.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 92 (21.80%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (21.33%) Social Skills
5 86 (20.38%) Marketing
6 74 (17.54%) Law
7 53 (12.56%) Banking
8 20 (4.74%) Retail Banking
9 18 (4.27%) Legal
10 16 (3.79%) Financial Institution
11 15 (3.55%) Public Sector
12 13 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (2.13%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.66%) Billing
15 7 (1.66%) Retail
16 6 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.95%) Wearables
18 3 (0.71%) Publishing
19 2 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (41.71%) Architect
2 152 (36.02%) Data Architect
3 124 (29.38%) Senior
4 84 (19.91%) Lead
5 73 (17.30%) Software Engineer
6 67 (15.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 53 (12.56%) Senior Architect
7 53 (12.56%) Senior Data Architect
8 45 (10.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 44 (10.43%) Data Engineer
10 32 (7.58%) Analyst
11 26 (6.16%) Data Analyst
12 22 (5.21%) Data Manager
13 18 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (4.03%) Azure Data Engineer
14 17 (4.03%) Enterprise Architect
14 17 (4.03%) Salesforce Architect
15 15 (3.55%) DevOps Architect
15 15 (3.55%) Enterprise Data Architect
16 11 (2.61%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.77%) XML
2 70 (16.59%) Web Services
3 67 (15.88%) JSON
4 65 (15.40%) JSON-LD
4 65 (15.40%) LDAP
4 65 (15.40%) OpenID
4 65 (15.40%) RESTful
4 65 (15.40%) SAML
5 8 (1.90%) .NET
6 6 (1.42%) Lambda Expressions
7 5 (1.18%) HTML
7 5 (1.18%) Itk
7 5 (1.18%) J2EE
8 4 (0.95%) Anaconda
8 4 (0.95%) Flask
8 4 (0.95%) Kafka
8 4 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (0.95%) Pandas
8 4 (0.95%) PySpark
8 4 (0.95%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 129 (30.57%) Management Information System
2 83 (19.67%) Reference Data
3 65 (15.40%) Enterprise Cloud
4 25 (5.92%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.55%) PlayStation
7 14 (3.32%) Algorithms
8 13 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.84%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.90%) Blog
11 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.90%) NHS
12 6 (1.42%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.42%) Taxonomies
13 5 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.61%) Windows
2 3 (0.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.71%) Unix
3 2 (0.47%) Android
3 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (61.85%) Data Modelling
2 194 (45.97%) Agile
3 189 (44.79%) Metadata Management
4 152 (36.02%) Data Management
5 148 (35.07%) Data Architecture
6 143 (33.89%) Analytics
7 125 (29.62%) Data Pipeline
8 116 (27.49%) Data Governance
9 108 (25.59%) CI/CD
10 105 (24.88%) Data Strategy
10 105 (24.88%) Roadmaps
11 98 (23.22%) SDLC
12 96 (22.75%) Software Engineering
13 92 (21.80%) Business Intelligence
13 92 (21.80%) DevOps
14 87 (20.62%) Use Case
15 79 (18.72%) Data Transformation
16 78 (18.48%) Architectural Design
17 77 (18.25%) ETL
18 76 (18.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 127 (30.09%) SQL
2 65 (15.40%) Go
2 65 (15.40%) Prolog
2 65 (15.40%) SPARQL
3 56 (13.27%) Python
4 41 (9.72%) T-SQL
5 24 (5.69%) Java
6 9 (2.13%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.90%) R
7 8 (1.90%) Scala
8 5 (1.18%) C
8 5 (1.18%) C++
8 5 (1.18%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.95%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.95%) C#
9 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.71%) VBA
11 2 (0.47%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (8.53%) Degree
2 22 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.74%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.79%) AWS Certification
5 14 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (2.37%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.37%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.18%) MCAD
8 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) MCSE
11 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (35.31%) Data Quality
2 47 (11.14%) GDPR
3 6 (1.42%) GRC
4 5 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.95%) QA
6 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
7 2 (0.47%) HL7
7 2 (0.47%) IEC 61131
7 2 (0.47%) SLA
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (15.40%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (3.79%) Terraform
2 2 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.47%) WebSphere Cast Iron
3 1 (0.24%) Control-M
Vendors
1 82 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 60 (14.22%) Databricks
3 33 (7.82%) Oracle
4 20 (4.74%) Salesforce
5 19 (4.50%) Informatica
6 17 (4.03%) IBM
7 15 (3.55%) Facebook
7 15 (3.55%) Sony
8 14 (3.32%) Google
9 10 (2.37%) SAP
10 4 (0.95%) Adobe
10 4 (0.95%) ESRI
10 4 (0.95%) Talend
11 3 (0.71%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.71%) Sparx
12 2 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
12 2 (0.47%) iManage
12 2 (0.47%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.47%) Screaming Frog
12 2 (0.47%) SnapLogic