Metadata Job Trends in Cheshire

Metadata
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - 98
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.052% - 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.95% - 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - £65,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £68,490
75th Percentile £81,250 - £71,915
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £70,932 £70,000 £92,778
% change year-on-year +1.33% -24.55% +78.42%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

Metadata falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 105 94 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.48% 18.04% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 100 30 151
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,755 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £61,563 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £84,550 £71,915
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,043 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.16% +10.09% -5.66%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Metadata relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Metadata job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Metadata
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Metadata

Metadata
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Warrington - 1 £77,500 - 1
Metadata
North West

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Commercialisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SAP