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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 700 805 860
Rank change year-on-year +105 +55 -34
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 186 170 402
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 135 104 247
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,150 £50,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £58,464
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £64,691 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -13.75% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,313 £96,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £104,375 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £61,275
% change year-on-year +33.33% -2.08% +21.34%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +98 171 £80,000 +23.66% 55
London +122 86 £83,750 +21.90% 37
UK excluding London +9 85 £80,000 +33.33% 27
Work from Home +59 61 £85,000 +30.08% 24
South East +19 32 £85,000 +30.77% 10
North of England +53 31 £92,778 +78.42% 7
North West +10 18 £100,000 +92.31% 2
Midlands -5 14 £61,250 +22.83% 3
West Midlands +16 13 £60,000 +17.07% 3
Yorkshire +86 9 £60,000 -7.69% 3
South West -27 6 £75,000 -36.12% 3
North East +1 4 £42,500 - 2
Scotland -63 2 £73,750 - 1
East Midlands -19 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 (5.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.84%) Apache
2 9 (4.84%) Confluence
3 7 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.76%) SAS
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.69%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 96 (51.61%) Azure
2 49 (26.34%) Power Platform
3 35 (18.82%) AWS
4 28 (15.05%) GCP
5 25 (13.44%) Snowflake
6 23 (12.37%) Matillion
6 23 (12.37%) Microsoft Purview
7 20 (10.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (10.22%) Collibra
9 18 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (8.60%) Serverless
11 15 (8.06%) GitHub
12 7 (3.76%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (3.76%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (3.76%) Dagster
12 7 (3.76%) dbt
12 7 (3.76%) Prefect
13 6 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (100.00%) Metadata
2 58 (31.18%) Data Lake
3 54 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (23.66%) Power BI
5 22 (11.83%) Relational Database
6 19 (10.22%) Big Data
6 19 (10.22%) SQL Server
7 15 (8.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 15 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (5.38%) Ataccama
9 9 (4.84%) NoSQL
10 8 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (4.30%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (3.76%) Data Hub
11 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 5 (2.69%) Data Vault
12 5 (2.69%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (2.15%) Delta Lake
13 4 (2.15%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (4.84%) JIRA
2 8 (4.30%) Git
2 8 (4.30%) GitLab
3 7 (3.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.76%) Spinnaker
4 3 (1.61%) ERwin
5 1 (0.54%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 94 (50.54%) Finance
2 75 (40.32%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (29.57%) Social Skills
4 35 (18.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (18.28%) Banking
6 15 (8.06%) Financial Institution
6 15 (8.06%) Retail Banking
7 8 (4.30%) Law
7 8 (4.30%) Legal
7 8 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.76%) Billing
9 5 (2.69%) Marketing
9 5 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.15%) Wearables
11 3 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.08%) Retail
13 1 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (45.70%) Architect
2 81 (43.55%) Data Architect
3 51 (27.42%) Senior
4 35 (18.82%) Senior Architect
4 35 (18.82%) Senior Data Architect
5 34 (18.28%) Data Engineer
6 22 (11.83%) Analyst
7 17 (9.14%) Data Analyst
7 17 (9.14%) Lead
8 16 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (8.06%) Azure Data Engineer
9 15 (8.06%) Enterprise Architect
9 15 (8.06%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 10 (5.38%) Data Manager
10 10 (5.38%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (3.76%) Data Governance Analyst
11 7 (3.76%) Data Governance Manager
11 7 (3.76%) Governance Analyst
11 7 (3.76%) Governance Manager
12 6 (3.23%) Data Analytics Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.76%) .NET
2 6 (3.23%) Lambda Expressions
3 5 (2.69%) J2EE
4 3 (1.61%) XML
5 2 (1.08%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.08%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.54%) FHIR
6 1 (0.54%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.54%) JSON
6 1 (0.54%) PySpark
6 1 (0.54%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.74%) Management Information System
2 19 (10.22%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.60%) Reference Data
4 11 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.84%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.84%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (3.76%) NHS
8 6 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (2.15%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.61%) IoT
11 3 (1.61%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.08%) e-Learning
12 2 (1.08%) iPhone
12 2 (1.08%) W3C
13 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.15%) Windows
2 2 (1.08%) Android
2 2 (1.08%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (60.22%) Data Modelling
2 95 (51.08%) Data Management
3 93 (50.00%) Analytics
4 90 (48.39%) Agile
4 90 (48.39%) Data Architecture
5 86 (46.24%) Data Governance
6 85 (45.70%) Data Strategy
7 78 (41.94%) Business Intelligence
8 60 (32.26%) DevOps
9 53 (28.49%) Data Analysis
10 49 (26.34%) ETL
11 45 (24.19%) Logical Data Model
12 43 (23.12%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (19.89%) Data Design
13 37 (19.89%) Physical Data Model
14 35 (18.82%) Roadmaps
15 33 (17.74%) Data Privacy
16 31 (16.67%) DataOps
17 30 (16.13%) Data Science
18 29 (15.59%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.47%) SQL
2 36 (19.35%) T-SQL
3 24 (12.90%) Python
4 15 (8.06%) Java
5 4 (2.15%) R
6 3 (1.61%) C#
6 3 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.08%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (10.22%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.06%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.38%) Degree
4 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) MCSE
6 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (61.83%) Data Quality
2 32 (17.20%) GDPR
3 6 (3.23%) GRC
4 3 (1.61%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (1.08%) HL7
5 2 (1.08%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (6.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 60 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 44 (23.66%) Databricks
3 11 (5.91%) Oracle
4 8 (4.30%) Google
4 8 (4.30%) Informatica
5 6 (3.23%) SAP
6 4 (2.15%) Talend
7 3 (1.61%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.08%) Cisco
8 2 (1.08%) iManage
8 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.08%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.08%) Sparx
9 1 (0.54%) Marketo
9 1 (0.54%) Remedy
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce