Metadata Management Job Trends in the North of England

Metadata Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 267 283
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +111
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 8 12 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.075% 0.13% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile - £45,525 £60,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £74,246 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £93,642 £92,778
Median % change year-on-year -43.40% +0.93% +45.53%
75th Percentile £54,500 £100,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £60,800 - -
England median annual salary £68,750 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -15.63% +23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,534 8,257 7,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.28% 90.52% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 3,687 5,939
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,102
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,850 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Metadata Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Metadata Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in the North of England

Metadata Management
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
North West +20 4 £47,750 -52.25% 6
Yorkshire -14 4 £65,000 -25.53% 6
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (37.50%) TIBCO EBX
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) IT Trainer
2 2 (25.00%) Legal IT Trainer
2 2 (25.00%) Trainer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Informatica Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Taxonomies
2 2 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 2 (25.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 5 (62.50%) Workflow
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) ETL
4 3 (37.50%) CRM
4 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Data Stewardship
4 3 (37.50%) ERP
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) PLM
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Management
5 2 (25.00%) Document Management
5 2 (25.00%) Expense Management
5 2 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow Management
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Informatica
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) TIBCO
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) iManage