Metadata Job Trends in the East Midlands

Metadata
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 134 177
Rank change year-on-year -32 +43 -60
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 9 8 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.14% 0.35% 0.025%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 3.03% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £41,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -52.78% +71.87%
75th Percentile £42,121 £43,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £43,393 - -
England median annual salary £70,752 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.85% - -1.89%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 385 264 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.08% 11.47% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 221 176 196
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.83% -5.00% +0.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Metadata

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Northamptonshire -1 4 - -
Leicestershire -36 4 £40,000 - 3
Nottinghamshire -12 1 £44,241 +4.10% 2
Metadata
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon EMR
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Collibra
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Retail
3 2 (22.22%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Marketing
3 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Data Architect
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Architect
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Migration Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) SEO Executive
3 2 (22.22%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blog
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Data Architecture
1 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Content Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Data Transformation
2 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) SEO
3 3 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Ahrefs
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Google
1 2 (22.22%) Informatica
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Screaming Frog