Metadata Jobs in Wales

Metadata
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 120 121
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 2 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.19% 0.049% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.63% 0.33% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £54,625 - £44,550
25th Percentile £57,813 £46,250 £47,318
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £47,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.47% -18.10% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,313 £48,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £78,875 - £69,750
UK median annual salary £66,367 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.19% +7.69% -7.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 76 301 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.30% 14.75% 19.83%
Number of salaries quoted 71 169 183
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,600 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £72,277 £61,250 £68,263
90th Percentile £78,750 £71,250 £75,000
UK 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 Wales

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Wales

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Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Metadata in Wales.

Salary trend for Metadata in Wales

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Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Wales over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in Wales

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Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 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
South Wales +39 2 £66,250 +39.47% 4
Metadata
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Governance Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft