Metadata Job Trends in Preston

Metadata
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 1.88% - 1.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% - 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 30 20 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 18.75% 19.42% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 17
10th Percentile - £53,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £56,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,850 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.08% +30.00% +18.21%
75th Percentile £55,000 £81,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £89,500 £61,250
Lancashire median annual salary £45,000 £50,890 £45,249
% change year-on-year -11.57% +12.47% +0.55%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Preston

Metadata
Salary Trend in Preston

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Metadata

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks