Metadata Contracts in the North of England

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England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 174 231
Rank change year-on-year +17 +57 -76
Contract jobs citing Metadata 27 34 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.57% 0.61% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 4.28% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 15
10th Percentile £485 £440 £371
25th Percentile £550 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £590
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -15.25% -9.23%
75th Percentile £800 £600 £719
90th Percentile £849 £619 £745
England median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.50 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £40.25 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% - -
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.50 -
90th Percentile - £58.20 -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.13 £70.00
% change year-on-year -40.98% -45.54% +118.20%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 697 795 1,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.81% 14.35% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 568 908
10th Percentile £350 £361 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +15.47%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £586
90th Percentile £645 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 50
10th Percentile £11.00 £32.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.69 £37.10 £16.64
Median hourly rate £40.25 £40.80 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% +31.60% +42.53%
75th Percentile £44.74 £63.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.44 £65.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +80.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North West +9 17 £550 +10.00% 9
Yorkshire +19 10 £800 +66.61% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
1 7 (25.93%) SharePoint 2010
1 7 (25.93%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (11.11%) ArcGIS
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.11%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (7.41%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
3 1 (3.70%) Collibra
3 1 (3.70%) dbt
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.70%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.93%) PowerPivot
2 7 (25.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Power View
4 5 (18.52%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (11.11%) BigQuery
6 3 (11.11%) GIS
6 3 (11.11%) QGIS
6 3 (11.11%) RDBMS
6 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 3 (11.11%) Spatial Data
7 2 (7.41%) Big Data
7 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
7 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (3.70%) Azkaban
8 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (3.70%) Spark SQL
8 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
1 1 (3.70%) ERwin
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) PyCharm
1 1 (3.70%) RStudio
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Publishing
3 5 (18.52%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Finance
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Electronics
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) SharePoint Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) GIS Technician
5 2 (7.41%) Data Governance Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Governance Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Data Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Data Modeller
5 2 (7.41%) Governance Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Document Controller
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Information Architect
6 1 (3.70%) SAP Manager
6 1 (3.70%) SharePoint Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) CSS
1 7 (25.93%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) LangChain
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (11.11%) Lidar
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.70%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Life Science
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Metadata Management
2 12 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 11 (40.74%) Data Governance
4 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (29.63%) Data Architecture
5 7 (25.93%) Data Strategy
5 7 (25.93%) ITIL
6 6 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (22.22%) Data Management
6 6 (22.22%) Information Architecture
6 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (22.22%) Statistics
7 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.81%) Conceptual Models
9 3 (11.11%) Data Science
9 3 (11.11%) Image Processing
9 3 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
9 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
9 3 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
3 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
4 4 (14.81%) Python
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GDPR
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (3.70%) GxP
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) VMware
2 4 (14.81%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) ESRI
3 3 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (11.11%) Sparx
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle