Metadata Jobs

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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 515 513
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +69
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 421 507 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.54% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.27% 2.53% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 233 303 540
10th Percentile £39,500 £46,250 £41,503
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -8.97% +11.54%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £87,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,500 £104,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.74% +0.42% +14.29%

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 18,555 20,054 48,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.20% 21.40% 28.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,591 12,842 21,109
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 £102,500 £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

Metadata
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 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
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 7 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 -63 314 £68,714 +0.02% 81
UK excluding London -24 238 £62,500 +3.74% 35
London +4 146 £80,000 +14.29% 52
Work from Home -78 115 £65,000 -5.39% 47
Scotland -5 71 £67,500 +3.85% 6
Midlands +7 62 £55,000 - 6
West Midlands +22 58 £57,500 - 6
North of England +46 51 £70,000 +5.66% 9
South East -48 37 £85,000 - 10
North West +18 32 £100,000 +92.31% 6
South West -58 13 £68,937 +14.42% 1
Yorkshire +65 12 £60,000 -19.46% 2
North East -16 7 £42,500 +7.66% 1
East Midlands -23 4 £50,000 +0.54%
East of England -14 3 £31,000 -43.64% 5
Wales +2 1 £47,500 -15.75%

Metadata
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 17 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.09%) SAS
3 11 (2.61%) Confluence
4 10 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 9 (2.14%) Apache
6 4 (0.95%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.48%) CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.24%) Documentum
8 1 (0.24%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 13 (3.09%) 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 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) HFM
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 130 (30.88%) Azure
2 65 (15.44%) AWS
3 59 (14.01%) Power Platform
4 42 (9.98%) GCP
5 27 (6.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (6.18%) Snowflake
7 25 (5.94%) Collibra
7 25 (5.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 22 (5.23%) Matillion
9 21 (4.99%) Serverless
10 20 (4.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (3.56%) GitHub
13 11 (2.61%) PaaS
14 10 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.14%) SaaS
16 8 (1.90%) Alation
16 8 (1.90%) dbt
17 7 (1.66%) Amazon EventBridge
17 7 (1.66%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.44%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.71%) WebEx
3 1 (0.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (19.48%) Data Warehouse
2 67 (15.91%) Data Lake
3 54 (12.83%) Power BI
4 34 (8.08%) SQL Server
5 26 (6.18%) Relational Database
6 25 (5.94%) Big Data
7 22 (5.23%) NoSQL
7 22 (5.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (3.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (2.61%) Ataccama
9 11 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.14%) Metadata Repository
11 8 (1.90%) Data Hub
11 8 (1.90%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 8 (1.90%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.66%) Data Mining
13 6 (1.43%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 83 (19.71%) Git
2 71 (16.86%) Jenkins
3 65 (15.44%) Artifactory
3 65 (15.44%) Bitbucket
4 11 (2.61%) JIRA
5 9 (2.14%) GitLab
6 3 (0.71%) ERwin
6 3 (0.71%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.48%) Ant
7 2 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.48%) Subversion
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.24%) JMeter
8 1 (0.24%) Postman
8 1 (0.24%) Toad
General
1 183 (43.47%) Finance
2 119 (28.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 90 (21.38%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (20.67%) Social Skills
5 82 (19.48%) Marketing
6 75 (17.81%) Law
7 55 (13.06%) Banking
8 21 (4.99%) Retail Banking
9 17 (4.04%) Financial Institution
9 17 (4.04%) Legal
10 13 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.61%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.66%) Billing
13 7 (1.66%) Retail
14 6 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.95%) Wearables
16 3 (0.71%) Publishing
17 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 176 (41.81%) Architect
2 152 (36.10%) Data Architect
3 131 (31.12%) Senior
4 80 (19.00%) Lead
5 73 (17.34%) Software Engineer
6 67 (15.91%) Lead Software Engineer
7 53 (12.59%) Senior Architect
7 53 (12.59%) Senior Data Architect
8 45 (10.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 40 (9.50%) Data Engineer
10 39 (9.26%) Analyst
11 33 (7.84%) Data Analyst
12 22 (5.23%) Data Manager
13 18 (4.28%) Governance Analyst
14 17 (4.04%) Enterprise Architect
14 17 (4.04%) Salesforce Architect
15 15 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (3.56%) DevOps Architect
15 15 (3.56%) Enterprise Data Architect
15 15 (3.56%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (17.10%) XML
2 70 (16.63%) Web Services
3 66 (15.68%) JSON
4 65 (15.44%) JSON-LD
4 65 (15.44%) LDAP
4 65 (15.44%) OpenID
4 65 (15.44%) RESTful
4 65 (15.44%) SAML
5 7 (1.66%) PySpark
6 6 (1.43%) Lambda Expressions
7 5 (1.19%) .NET
7 5 (1.19%) HTML
7 5 (1.19%) Itk
7 5 (1.19%) J2EE
8 4 (0.95%) Kafka
8 4 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.71%) Anaconda
9 3 (0.71%) Flask
9 3 (0.71%) Pandas
9 3 (0.71%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 129 (30.64%) Management Information System
2 84 (19.95%) Reference Data
3 65 (15.44%) Enterprise Cloud
4 21 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (4.04%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.56%) PlayStation
7 14 (3.33%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.14%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.90%) Blog
9 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.90%) NHS
10 6 (1.43%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.95%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.38%) Windows
2 3 (0.71%) Android
2 3 (0.71%) Linux
2 3 (0.71%) Unix
2 3 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (61.76%) Data Modelling
2 191 (45.37%) Metadata Management
3 190 (45.13%) Agile
4 159 (37.77%) Data Management
5 147 (34.92%) Analytics
5 147 (34.92%) Data Architecture
6 124 (29.45%) Data Governance
6 124 (29.45%) Data Pipeline
7 111 (26.37%) CI/CD
8 110 (26.13%) Roadmaps
9 106 (25.18%) Data Strategy
10 97 (23.04%) SDLC
11 96 (22.80%) Software Engineering
12 93 (22.09%) Business Intelligence
13 91 (21.62%) Use Case
14 87 (20.67%) DevOps
15 83 (19.71%) Data Transformation
16 78 (18.53%) Architectural Design
17 77 (18.29%) ETL
18 75 (17.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 130 (30.88%) SQL
2 65 (15.44%) Go
2 65 (15.44%) Prolog
2 65 (15.44%) SPARQL
3 55 (13.06%) Python
4 40 (9.50%) T-SQL
5 24 (5.70%) Java
6 8 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.90%) R
6 8 (1.90%) Scala
7 5 (1.19%) C
7 5 (1.19%) C++
7 5 (1.19%) Shell Script
8 4 (0.95%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.95%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.71%) VBA
10 2 (0.48%) Ladder Logic
11 1 (0.24%) C#
11 1 (0.24%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (8.55%) Degree
2 22 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.99%) Azure Certification
4 17 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.43%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.43%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.19%) MCAD
8 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.24%) MCSE
10 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (37.53%) Data Quality
2 46 (10.93%) GDPR
3 6 (1.43%) GRC
4 5 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.71%) QA
5 3 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
6 2 (0.48%) HL7
6 2 (0.48%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 65 (15.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.95%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (3.80%) Terraform
2 3 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) Control-M
3 2 (0.48%) WebSphere Cast Iron
Vendors
1 81 (19.24%) Microsoft
2 58 (13.78%) Databricks
3 34 (8.08%) Oracle
4 25 (5.94%) Informatica
5 20 (4.75%) Salesforce
6 17 (4.04%) IBM
7 15 (3.56%) Facebook
7 15 (3.56%) Sony
8 11 (2.61%) Google
9 10 (2.38%) SAP
10 4 (0.95%) Adobe
10 4 (0.95%) ESRI
10 4 (0.95%) Talend
11 3 (0.71%) Ab Initio
11 3 (0.71%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.71%) Cisco
11 3 (0.71%) iManage
11 3 (0.71%) Sparx
12 2 (0.48%) Screaming Frog
12 2 (0.48%) Siemens