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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 317 357
Rank change year-on-year +25 +40 -42
Contract jobs citing Metadata 258 373 512
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.16% 4.29% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 255 346
10th Percentile £400 £413 £331
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £825 £700 £725
90th Percentile £925 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 5
10th Percentile £13.50 £22.75 £35.30
25th Percentile £14.00 £35.00 £58.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £38.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.98% -45.54% +118.20%
75th Percentile £42.88 £64.31 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.63 £66.00
% change year-on-year -8.77% -46.02% +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 6,201 8,694 14,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.00% 17.84% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,467 6,258 10,229
10th Percentile £355 £375 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 165 177
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.22% +27.78% +83.15%
75th Percentile £58.68 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% +31.77% +69.81%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +26 156 £680 +9.68% 47
North of England +20 30 £725 +45.00% 18
North West +19 20 £625 +25.00% 11
South East -11 17 £480 +5.49% 8
South West -6 16 £625 +25.00% 5
Midlands +31 13 £600 +26.32% 14
West Midlands +28 11 £650 +36.84% 12
Yorkshire +27 10 £800 +66.56% 4
East of England +12 9 £410 -8.89% 4
East Midlands +18 2 £400 -23.81% 2
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UK

Metadata
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 31 (12.02%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.10%) Confluence
3 7 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.71%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (2.71%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.16%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.78%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Drupal
Applications
1 21 (8.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.59%) MS Visio
3 8 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.16%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 25 (9.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.94%) Relativity
3 4 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.78%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.39%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.39%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 50 (19.38%) Collibra
2 42 (16.28%) Power Platform
3 30 (11.63%) Azure
4 21 (8.14%) AWS
5 18 (6.98%) GCP
6 16 (6.20%) GitHub
7 11 (4.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (4.26%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.88%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.94%) Alation
10 5 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.94%) Serverless
11 4 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.55%) Slack
11 4 (1.55%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.16%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.94%) WebEx
2 2 (0.78%) Intranet
3 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (21.32%) NoSQL
2 45 (17.44%) Data Vault
2 45 (17.44%) SQL Server
3 43 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (15.89%) Metadata Repository
5 39 (15.12%) Power BI
6 14 (5.43%) Big Data
6 14 (5.43%) Data Lake
7 11 (4.26%) BigQuery
7 11 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (3.10%) Pentaho
9 8 (3.10%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (3.10%) QlikView
10 7 (2.71%) PowerPivot
10 7 (2.71%) RDBMS
11 6 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 16 (6.20%) ERwin
2 12 (4.65%) JIRA
3 6 (2.33%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.33%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.55%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.55%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.78%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.78%) kappa
6 1 (0.39%) GCC
6 1 (0.39%) Git
6 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.39%) RStudio
General
1 89 (34.50%) Finance
2 60 (23.26%) Public Sector
3 51 (19.77%) Social Skills
4 40 (15.50%) Manufacturing
5 34 (13.18%) Marketing
6 33 (12.79%) Electronics
6 33 (12.79%) Telecoms
7 29 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
8 24 (9.30%) Banking
8 24 (9.30%) Publishing
9 15 (5.81%) Retail
10 14 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.33%) Law
11 6 (2.33%) Legal
12 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.16%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Automotive
13 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 90 (34.88%) Architect
2 82 (31.78%) Data Architect
3 36 (13.95%) Analyst
4 31 (12.02%) Data Analyst
5 24 (9.30%) Chief Architect
5 24 (9.30%) Chief Data Architect
6 22 (8.53%) Data Engineer
7 19 (7.36%) Enterprise Architect
7 19 (7.36%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 19 (7.36%) Integration Engineer
8 16 (6.20%) Governance Analyst
9 14 (5.43%) Consultant
9 14 (5.43%) Developer
10 11 (4.26%) Senior
11 10 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (3.88%) Head of Architecture
11 10 (3.88%) Head of Data Architecture
11 10 (3.88%) Power BI Developer
12 9 (3.49%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.49%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.26%) CSS
1 11 (4.26%) HTML
2 3 (1.16%) .NET
2 3 (1.16%) SPFx
3 2 (0.78%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.78%) JDBC
3 2 (0.78%) jQuery
3 2 (0.78%) Kafka
3 2 (0.78%) Node.js
3 2 (0.78%) ODBC
3 2 (0.78%) PySpark
3 2 (0.78%) REST
4 1 (0.39%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.39%) HTML5
4 1 (0.39%) JSON
4 1 (0.39%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (0.39%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.89%) Reference Data
2 19 (7.36%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (5.04%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.65%) Wiki
6 10 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.88%) Taxonomies
7 8 (3.10%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.94%) Life Science
9 4 (1.55%) Derivative
9 4 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.16%) Lidar
11 2 (0.78%) Omics
12 1 (0.39%) Industry 4.0
12 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.39%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.39%) Unix
1 1 (0.39%) Windows
1 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (57.36%) Data Governance
2 124 (48.06%) Data Modelling
3 90 (34.88%) Data Architecture
4 89 (34.50%) Metadata Management
5 85 (32.95%) Business Intelligence
6 79 (30.62%) Data Management
7 68 (26.36%) Data Lineage
8 60 (23.26%) Data Strategy
9 52 (20.16%) Data Integration
9 52 (20.16%) ETL
10 43 (16.67%) UML
11 38 (14.73%) Data Design
11 38 (14.73%) Programme Management
12 37 (14.34%) Data Analysis
13 33 (12.79%) Digital Marketing
14 27 (10.47%) Analytics
15 26 (10.08%) Business Strategy
16 25 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (8.53%) Project Delivery
17 22 (8.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.42%) SQL
2 30 (11.63%) Python
3 19 (7.36%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.81%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.71%) MATLAB
7 6 (2.33%) Groovy
7 6 (2.33%) Java
7 6 (2.33%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.55%) Go
9 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.78%) R
9 2 (0.78%) VBA
10 1 (0.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 57 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.85%) Degree
4 6 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (21.71%) Data Quality
2 27 (10.47%) GDPR
3 6 (2.33%) Good Clinical Practice
3 6 (2.33%) GxP
3 6 (2.33%) QA
4 4 (1.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.71%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (2.33%) Terraform
3 5 (1.94%) EnCase
4 1 (0.39%) Kibana
4 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 44 (17.05%) SAP
2 41 (15.89%) Sparx
3 29 (11.24%) Microsoft
4 20 (7.75%) Informatica
5 19 (7.36%) Oracle
6 11 (4.26%) Databricks
7 10 (3.88%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.71%) Nexthink
8 7 (2.71%) VMware
9 6 (2.33%) Remedy
9 6 (2.33%) Talend
10 5 (1.94%) Google
10 5 (1.94%) IBM
10 5 (1.94%) Nuix
10 5 (1.94%) Okta
10 5 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.94%) Snow
10 5 (1.94%) Symantec
10 5 (1.94%) Varonis
11 4 (1.55%) Splunk