Metadata Contracts in England

Metadata
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 314 356
Rank change year-on-year +16 +42 -37
Contract jobs citing Metadata 260 391 528
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.77% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.22% 4.31% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 266 364
10th Percentile £400 £409 £341
25th Percentile £453 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £819 £688 £706
90th Percentile £925 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 5
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.00 £35.30
25th Percentile £15.25 £35.00 £58.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -48.21% +118.20%
75th Percentile £43.53 £64.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -46.97% +65.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,163 9,072 14,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.97% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,507 10,368
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 166 169
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.19 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata in England.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata in England.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +38 150 £680 +8.80% 51
North of England +24 31 £725 +51.04% 13
North West +14 21 £663 +32.50% 7
South West 0 19 £563 +12.50% 7
South East -15 18 £550 +20.88% 7
Midlands +35 15 £588 +23.68% 3
West Midlands +39 13 £600 +26.32% 2
Yorkshire +27 10 £800 +66.56% 5
East of England +7 10 £410 -8.89% 5
East Midlands +19 2 £400 -23.81% 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.08%) Confluence
3 7 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.69%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (2.69%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.15%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.77%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
Applications
1 20 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.54%) MS Visio
3 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.15%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.38%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (9.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.92%) Relativity
3 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.77%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.38%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.38%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 41 (15.77%) Collibra
2 34 (13.08%) Power Platform
3 32 (12.31%) Azure
4 22 (8.46%) AWS
5 19 (7.31%) GCP
6 16 (6.15%) GitHub
7 10 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.46%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.92%) Alation
11 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.92%) Serverless
11 5 (1.92%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.54%) Slack
13 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.15%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.92%) WebEx
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (21.15%) NoSQL
2 45 (17.31%) Data Vault
3 43 (16.54%) Metadata Repository
4 37 (14.23%) SQL Server
5 36 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (11.92%) Power BI
7 15 (5.77%) Data Lake
8 13 (5.00%) Big Data
9 12 (4.62%) BigQuery
9 12 (4.62%) Relational Database
10 11 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (3.46%) RDBMS
13 8 (3.08%) Pentaho
13 8 (3.08%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (3.08%) QlikView
14 7 (2.69%) PowerPivot
15 6 (2.31%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 15 (5.77%) ERwin
2 12 (4.62%) JIRA
3 6 (2.31%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.31%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.54%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.77%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.77%) Git
5 2 (0.77%) kappa
6 1 (0.38%) GCC
6 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.38%) RStudio
General
1 85 (32.69%) Finance
2 62 (23.85%) Public Sector
3 57 (21.92%) Social Skills
4 38 (14.62%) Manufacturing
5 35 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (12.31%) Marketing
7 31 (11.92%) Electronics
7 31 (11.92%) Telecoms
8 24 (9.23%) Publishing
9 22 (8.46%) Banking
10 15 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (5.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (5.38%) Retail
12 6 (2.31%) Law
12 6 (2.31%) Legal
13 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.15%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.77%) Automotive
15 2 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (35.77%) Architect
2 84 (32.31%) Data Architect
3 37 (14.23%) Analyst
4 31 (11.92%) Data Analyst
5 23 (8.85%) Chief Architect
5 23 (8.85%) Chief Data Architect
6 22 (8.46%) Data Engineer
7 19 (7.31%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (6.92%) Enterprise Architect
8 18 (6.92%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 15 (5.77%) Governance Analyst
10 13 (5.00%) Consultant
10 13 (5.00%) Developer
10 13 (5.00%) Senior
11 9 (3.46%) Business Analyst
11 9 (3.46%) Data Manager
11 9 (3.46%) Data Modeller
11 9 (3.46%) Head of Architecture
11 9 (3.46%) Head of Data Architecture
12 8 (3.08%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.23%) CSS
1 11 (4.23%) HTML
2 5 (1.92%) .NET
3 3 (1.15%) SPFx
4 2 (0.77%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.77%) JDBC
4 2 (0.77%) jQuery
4 2 (0.77%) Kafka
4 2 (0.77%) Node.js
4 2 (0.77%) ODBC
4 2 (0.77%) PySpark
4 2 (0.77%) REST
5 1 (0.38%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.38%) HTML5
5 1 (0.38%) JSON
5 1 (0.38%) Middleware
5 1 (0.38%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.38%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.38%) Reference Data
2 19 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 13 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.62%) Wiki
5 9 (3.46%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.46%) Taxonomies
6 5 (1.92%) Life Science
7 4 (1.54%) Derivative
7 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.15%) CMDB
8 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.15%) Lidar
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) Omics
9 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.77%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Unix
2 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (52.69%) Data Governance
2 123 (47.31%) Data Modelling
3 91 (35.00%) Data Architecture
4 86 (33.08%) Metadata Management
5 80 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
5 80 (30.77%) Data Management
6 62 (23.85%) Data Lineage
7 60 (23.08%) Data Strategy
8 51 (19.62%) Data Integration
9 49 (18.85%) ETL
10 42 (16.15%) UML
11 39 (15.00%) Data Design
12 37 (14.23%) Data Analysis
13 36 (13.85%) Programme Management
14 35 (13.46%) Analytics
15 31 (11.92%) Digital Marketing
16 29 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (9.62%) Business Strategy
18 22 (8.46%) Project Delivery
18 22 (8.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.23%) SQL
2 32 (12.31%) Python
3 19 (7.31%) JavaScript
4 17 (6.54%) T-SQL
5 14 (5.38%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.31%) Groovy
6 6 (2.31%) Java
6 6 (2.31%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.92%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.54%) Go
9 3 (1.15%) R
10 1 (0.38%) Bash
10 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (23.46%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.62%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.92%) Degree
4 7 (2.69%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (21.92%) Data Quality
2 25 (9.62%) GDPR
3 6 (2.31%) Good Clinical Practice
3 6 (2.31%) GxP
4 5 (1.92%) QA
5 4 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.31%) Terraform
2 5 (1.92%) EnCase
3 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.38%) Kibana
3 1 (0.38%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 42 (16.15%) SAP
2 40 (15.38%) Sparx
3 29 (11.15%) Microsoft
4 22 (8.46%) Informatica
5 20 (7.69%) Oracle
6 13 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.85%) Databricks
8 7 (2.69%) VMware
9 6 (2.31%) Google
9 6 (2.31%) Remedy
9 6 (2.31%) Talend
10 5 (1.92%) IBM
10 5 (1.92%) Nuix
10 5 (1.92%) Okta
10 5 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.92%) Symantec
10 5 (1.92%) Varonis
11 4 (1.54%) Splunk
12 3 (1.15%) ESRI
13 2 (0.77%) Sage