Metadata Jobs in the North of England

Metadata
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 349 392
Rank change year-on-year +13 +43 -47
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 11 50 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.094% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.92% 1.61% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 34 30
10th Percentile £35,500 £38,750 £41,143
25th Percentile £45,875 £60,625 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +13.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £100,000 £81,688
90th Percentile £80,000 - £82,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,937 £65,689
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.95% -12.42%

All Database and 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 1,199 3,105 3,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.28% 16.91% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 799 2,264 1,768
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,579 £34,723
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the North of England.

Salary trend for Metadata in the North of England

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 -13 8 £70,000 -30.00% 76
Yorkshire +49 2 £53,250 -11.25% 59
North East +41 1 £47,500 +11.76% 23
Metadata
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (9.09%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) SaaS
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Intranet
2 1 (9.09%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 3 (27.27%) Data Hub
3 3 (27.27%) SQL CLR
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
4 2 (18.18%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (18.18%) EDRMS
5 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
5 1 (9.09%) MySQL
5 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (9.09%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (9.09%) QlikView
5 1 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
5 1 (9.09%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Back Office
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Developer
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior SQL Developer
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Records Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SEO Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Plotly
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) Regular Expression
1 1 (9.09%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (18.18%) e-Learning
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Blog
3 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Statistics
2 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Data Privacy
3 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
3 3 (27.27%) Fintech
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Wealth Management
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Data Stewardship
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Go
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) PROC SQL
4 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Flume
2 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
2 1 (9.09%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) MicroStrategy