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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 733 785 907
Rank change year-on-year +52 +122 -64
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 191 160 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 140 82 245
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,050 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,813 £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 £107,375 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,125 £71,250
% change year-on-year +24.74% -15.61% +39.71%

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £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 9 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 9 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 +56 177 £80,000 +23.08% 26
London +98 93 £80,000 +16.24% 19
UK excluding London -48 85 £75,000 +24.74% 9
Work from Home +33 63 £80,000 +16.44% 16
South East +1 32 £85,000 -15.00% 2
North of England +43 29 £100,000 +92.31% 3
North West +4 17 £100,000 +92.31% 2
Midlands -29 15 £60,000 +20.32% 1
West Midlands -6 14 £60,000 +17.07% 1
Yorkshire +68 8 £60,000 -7.69% 1
South West -38 6 £75,000 -36.12%
North East -13 4 £42,500 -
Scotland -62 3 £75,000 - 3
East Midlands -35 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 10 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.71%) Apache
3 7 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.66%) SAS
4 5 (2.62%) Confluence
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.62%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 88 (46.07%) Azure
2 49 (25.65%) Power Platform
3 36 (18.85%) AWS
4 26 (13.61%) GCP
5 24 (12.57%) Snowflake
6 23 (12.04%) Microsoft Purview
7 22 (11.52%) Matillion
8 19 (9.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (9.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 18 (9.42%) Collibra
10 16 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (7.85%) Serverless
12 11 (5.76%) GitHub
13 8 (4.19%) Alation
14 7 (3.66%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (3.66%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (3.66%) Dagster
14 7 (3.66%) dbt
14 7 (3.66%) Prefect
15 6 (3.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (100.00%) Metadata
2 58 (30.37%) Data Lake
3 56 (29.32%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (23.04%) Power BI
5 23 (12.04%) Relational Database
6 20 (10.47%) SQL Server
7 19 (9.95%) Big Data
8 16 (8.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (8.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (5.76%) Ataccama
10 9 (4.71%) NoSQL
11 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 8 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.19%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (3.66%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.62%) Metadata Repository
14 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.57%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.57%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Git
1 8 (4.19%) GitLab
2 5 (2.62%) JIRA
3 3 (1.57%) ERwin
3 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.57%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.52%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.52%) Toad
General
1 93 (48.69%) Finance
2 75 (39.27%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (26.18%) Social Skills
4 40 (20.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (19.37%) Banking
6 17 (8.90%) Financial Institution
6 17 (8.90%) Retail Banking
7 9 (4.71%) Law
7 9 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.66%) Billing
8 7 (3.66%) Legal
9 5 (2.62%) Marketing
9 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.09%) Wearables
11 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Retail
13 1 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 89 (46.60%) Architect
2 85 (44.50%) Data Architect
3 59 (30.89%) Senior
4 38 (19.90%) Senior Architect
4 38 (19.90%) Senior Data Architect
5 31 (16.23%) Analyst
6 28 (14.66%) Data Engineer
7 26 (13.61%) Data Analyst
8 16 (8.38%) Governance Analyst
9 15 (7.85%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (7.85%) Enterprise Architect
9 15 (7.85%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 15 (7.85%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (7.33%) Azure Data Engineer
11 12 (6.28%) Lead
12 11 (5.76%) Banking Analyst
12 11 (5.76%) Data Manager
13 8 (4.19%) Data Governance Analyst
13 8 (4.19%) Data Governance Manager
13 8 (4.19%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.14%) Lambda Expressions
2 5 (2.62%) .NET
2 5 (2.62%) J2EE
3 2 (1.05%) Great Expectations
3 2 (1.05%) SPFx
4 1 (0.52%) FHIR
4 1 (0.52%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.52%) JSON
4 1 (0.52%) PySpark
4 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.80%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.90%) Reference Data
3 14 (7.33%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.81%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.76%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (5.24%) Algorithms
7 8 (4.19%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (4.19%) NHS
8 6 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.62%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (2.09%) Credit Risk
11 3 (1.57%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.57%) iPhone
11 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.05%) W3C
13 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.52%) IoT
13 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.57%) Android
1 3 (1.57%) Windows
1 3 (1.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (61.78%) Data Modelling
2 102 (53.40%) Data Management
3 96 (50.26%) Data Governance
4 95 (49.74%) Analytics
5 93 (48.69%) Data Architecture
6 89 (46.60%) Agile
7 87 (45.55%) Data Strategy
8 78 (40.84%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (31.41%) Data Analysis
10 55 (28.80%) DevOps
11 51 (26.70%) Logical Data Model
12 48 (25.13%) ETL
13 43 (22.51%) Physical Data Model
14 40 (20.94%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (19.37%) DataOps
15 37 (19.37%) Roadmaps
16 36 (18.85%) Data Design
16 36 (18.85%) Data Privacy
17 32 (16.75%) Strategic Roadmap
18 28 (14.66%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.03%) SQL
2 36 (18.85%) T-SQL
3 21 (10.99%) Python
4 15 (7.85%) Java
5 4 (2.09%) R
6 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
6 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.52%) C#
7 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (10.99%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.90%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.24%) Degree
4 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) MCSE
6 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (65.45%) Data Quality
2 32 (16.75%) GDPR
3 6 (3.14%) GRC
4 3 (1.57%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (1.05%) HL7
Systems Management
1 14 (7.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 41 (21.47%) Databricks
3 11 (5.76%) Informatica
3 11 (5.76%) Oracle
4 6 (3.14%) SAP
5 4 (2.09%) Talend
6 3 (1.57%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.57%) Cisco
6 3 (1.57%) Google
6 3 (1.57%) iManage
7 2 (1.05%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.05%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.05%) Sparx
8 1 (0.52%) Marketo
8 1 (0.52%) Remedy
8 1 (0.52%) Salesforce