Metadata Jobs in the North West

Metadata
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 263 283
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 +22
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 7 32 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.088% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.92% 1.77% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 10
10th Percentile - £65,066 £49,200
25th Percentile - £84,575 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £96,389 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.38% +85.36% -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 -
90th Percentile - - £72,531
England median annual salary £66,934 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% +7.69% -12.16%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 761 1,804 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.51% 18.29% 18.74%
Number of salaries quoted 439 1,280 875
10th Percentile £32,800 £33,609 £33,850
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% +4.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Metadata in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Manchester +41 7 £70,000 -30.00% 14
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Hub
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
1 3 (42.86%) SQL CLR
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Back Office
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SaaS Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Microsoft Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior SQL Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Enterprise Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SEO Executive
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 1 (14.29%) Blog
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
2 3 (42.86%) Fintech
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Refactoring
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Statistics
2 3 (42.86%) Wealth Management
2 3 (42.86%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Vision
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Google