Metadata Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Metadata
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 90 122
Rank change year-on-year -5 +32 +73
Permanent jobs citing Metadata 28 13 17
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.54% 0.90% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.89% 6.57% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile - £45,596 £53,875
25th Percentile £74,500 £48,433 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £58,886 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.86% -1.86% -25.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,379 £67,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,822 £80,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £79,000 £58,886 £60,000
% change year-on-year +34.16% -1.86% -17.24%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 257 198 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.14% 13.64% 22.56%
Number of salaries quoted 161 147 342
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,575 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £68,125 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,100 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Metadata.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Metadata

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Metadata in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Metadata in West Yorkshire

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Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
Leeds +5 26 £80,000 -8.34% 7
Bradford - 2 - - 3
Metadata
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (7.14%) CMS
1 2 (7.14%) Drupal
1 2 (7.14%) EPiServer
1 2 (7.14%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (10.71%) Azure App Service
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (7.14%) Figma
6 2 (7.14%) npm
7 1 (3.57%) Alation
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.57%) Collibra
7 1 (3.57%) dbt
7 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) DynamoDB
1 9 (32.14%) NoSQL
2 6 (21.43%) Data Vault
3 5 (17.86%) Delta Lake
4 3 (10.71%) TIBCO EBX
5 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.57%) Looker
6 1 (3.57%) Power BI
6 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Grunt
2 2 (7.14%) gulp
2 2 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Architect
2 18 (64.29%) Data Architect
3 7 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Principal Data Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Principal Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Principal Data Architect
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Data Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Digital Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) CSS3
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) HTML5
2 2 (7.14%) Node.js
2 2 (7.14%) Redux
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
2 2 (7.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Taxonomies
3 2 (7.14%) Graphic Design
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Data Governance
2 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 14 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 14 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (35.71%) Agile
4 10 (35.71%) Data Lineage
5 9 (32.14%) Data Integration
5 9 (32.14%) Logical Data Model
5 9 (32.14%) Physical Data Model
6 8 (28.57%) AI
6 8 (28.57%) Analytics
6 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
7 7 (25.00%) Data Design
7 7 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 7 (25.00%) Data Security
7 7 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Python
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Databricks
2 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (14.29%) Informatica
4 3 (10.71%) TIBCO