Metadata Jobs in the West Midlands

Metadata
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 175 197 226
Rank change year-on-year +22 +29 +29
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 22 58 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.53% 0.74% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.74% 4.82% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 22 45 16
10th Percentile £50,250 £27,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,325 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £60,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £68,125
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 464 1,203 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.19% 15.28% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 321 986 790
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £34,449
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Metadata in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Metadata in the West Midlands

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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 within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +14 8 £65,000 +18.94% 12
Solihull - 6 £58,750 -
Dudley - 4 £75,000 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £65,000 - 7
Shropshire - 1 £50,000 - 14
Brierley Hill - 1 £82,500 -
Coventry - 1 £62,500 - 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Power Platform
3 6 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 2 (9.09%) Lucidchart
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (54.55%) Metadata Repository
3 10 (45.45%) Power BI
3 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 7 (31.82%) Data Hub
5 4 (18.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
6 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
7 2 (9.09%) Big Data
7 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
7 2 (9.09%) Looker
7 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (9.09%) SQL CLR
7 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (9.09%) Tableau
8 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
8 1 (4.55%) MySQL
8 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) ERwin
2 4 (18.18%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) ER Studio
4 2 (9.09%) PowerDesigner
General
1 8 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 4 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Advertising
5 2 (9.09%) Back Office
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Lead
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Data Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Data Modeller
3 3 (13.64%) Data Quality Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Quality Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Quality Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) EDI
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Virtual Team
2 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Business Intelligence
1 17 (77.27%) Data Management
2 14 (63.64%) Data Modelling
3 10 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (40.91%) Data Governance
5 8 (36.36%) Data Science
6 7 (31.82%) Data Protection
6 7 (31.82%) ETL
7 6 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (27.27%) Data Architecture
7 6 (27.27%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (22.73%) Agile
8 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
8 5 (22.73%) Data Privacy
8 5 (22.73%) Data Security
8 5 (22.73%) ETL Development
8 5 (22.73%) Metadata Management
9 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
9 4 (18.18%) ERP
9 4 (18.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) CITP
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (31.82%) GDPR
3 6 (27.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) Informatica
4 4 (18.18%) Databricks
5 3 (13.64%) Sparx
6 2 (9.09%) VMware