Metadata Management Job Trends in the West Midlands

Metadata Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 192 176
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 +99
Permanent jobs citing Metadata Management 16 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.17% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.18% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 3
10th Percentile £50,200 - -
25th Percentile £56,750 £61,250 £92,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £65,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -31.58% +22.58%
75th Percentile £70,250 £71,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £71,250 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% -17.19% +23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,341 3,795 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.12% 91.62% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,264 1,687 2,757
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,563 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Metadata Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Metadata Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Metadata Management in the West Midlands

Metadata Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Birmingham +24 6 £65,500 -2.96% 1
Coventry +7 6 £67,500 +8.00% 2
Staffordshire - 2 £64,500 -
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) DB2
3 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.25%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (6.25%) Parquet
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Data Manager
2 6 (37.50%) Data Governance Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Data Governance Manager
2 6 (37.50%) Governance Manager
3 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Data Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Report Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
6 1 (6.25%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (6.25%) Head of Data Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) EDI
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 10 (62.50%) Analytics
3 9 (56.25%) Data Architecture
4 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (50.00%) Data Strategy
4 8 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 8 (50.00%) Master Data Management
5 6 (37.50%) Agile
6 5 (31.25%) Data Management
6 5 (31.25%) DevOps
7 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (25.00%) Data Stewardship
7 4 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Technology Enablement
8 3 (18.75%) Building Information Modelling
8 3 (18.75%) DAMA
8 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 3 (18.75%) Information Management
8 3 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) Scala
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bicep
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (31.25%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) BMC
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Talend