Metadata Job Trends in the North of England

Metadata
England > North of England

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 232 328
Rank change year-on-year -27 +96 +34
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 53 16 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.96% 1.50% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 40 8 34
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,263 £38,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £57,017 £58,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £80,875 £82,705 £96,539
90th Percentile £85,750 £90,822 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% -7.14% +7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,340 1,070 2,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.11% 16.59% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 840 783 2,325
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,813 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Metadata
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Metadata in the North of England

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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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Yorkshire -28 33 £76,840 +29.01% 15
North West -27 12 £70,932 -11.34% 11
North East -21 8 £65,466 - 4
Metadata
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.66%) CMS
2 3 (5.66%) SAS
3 2 (3.77%) WordPress
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 29 (54.72%) Azure
2 22 (41.51%) AWS
3 16 (30.19%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (11.32%) Snowflake
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.66%) Azure App Service
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.66%) Collibra
7 3 (5.66%) GitHub
7 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.77%) Google Ads
8 2 (3.77%) Google Analytics
8 2 (3.77%) SaaS
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.89%) dbt
9 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) DynamoDB
1 9 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 8 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (9.43%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.55%) BigQuery
5 4 (7.55%) Delta Lake
6 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.66%) Power BI
6 3 (5.66%) Tableau
6 3 (5.66%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (3.77%) Ataccama
7 2 (3.77%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.89%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.89%) Looker
8 1 (1.89%) QGIS
8 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.89%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.19%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (28.30%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.32%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Marketing
6 4 (7.55%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Games
7 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Publishing
8 1 (1.89%) Local Government
8 1 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (52.83%) Architect
2 21 (39.62%) Data Architect
3 11 (20.75%) Data Engineer
3 11 (20.75%) Senior
4 10 (18.87%) Lead
4 10 (18.87%) Senior Architect
5 7 (13.21%) Senior Data Architect
6 6 (11.32%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Ontologist
7 3 (5.66%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) JSON
1 6 (11.32%) PySpark
2 4 (7.55%) XML
3 3 (5.66%) HTML
4 2 (3.77%) CSS
4 2 (3.77%) XBRL
5 1 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Data Structures
2 7 (13.21%) Taxonomies
3 6 (11.32%) Public Cloud
4 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
4 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
5 4 (7.55%) Social Media
6 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
6 3 (5.66%) Semantic Web
7 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.77%) Blog
8 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (71.70%) Data Governance
2 32 (60.38%) Data Modelling
3 22 (41.51%) Analytics
3 22 (41.51%) Data Architecture
4 20 (37.74%) Metadata Management
5 17 (32.08%) Mentoring
6 16 (30.19%) Agile
7 13 (24.53%) Data Integration
7 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
8 12 (22.64%) Data Engineering
9 11 (20.75%) Translating Business Requirements
10 10 (18.87%) AI
10 10 (18.87%) Coaching
10 10 (18.87%) Data Lineage
10 10 (18.87%) Data Management
10 10 (18.87%) Logical Data Model
10 10 (18.87%) Physical Data Model
11 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (16.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.30%) SQL
2 13 (24.53%) Python
3 3 (5.66%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) Degree
1 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (49.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.75%) Databricks
2 11 (20.75%) Google
3 4 (7.55%) Ahrefs
3 4 (7.55%) Informatica
4 3 (5.66%) Talend
4 3 (5.66%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.77%) Hotjar
5 2 (3.77%) Screaming Frog
6 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.89%) ESRI
6 1 (1.89%) Splunk