Metadata Contracts in the North West

Metadata
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 121 163
Rank change year-on-year +5 +42 -47
Contract jobs citing Metadata 21 32 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.76% 1.00% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.07% 6.24% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 15
10th Percentile £471 £430 £362
25th Percentile £541 £450 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% -2.91% -28.97%
75th Percentile £738 £600 £738
90th Percentile £740 - -
England median daily rate £619 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £25.81 - -
25th Percentile £37.63 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £43.22 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% - -
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.50 -
90th Percentile - £58.20 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £36.25 £65.75
% change year-on-year -24.14% -44.87% +104.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 414 513 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.98% 15.97% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 376 569
10th Percentile £350 £338 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £583 £586 £588
90th Percentile £636 £667 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 37
10th Percentile £26.85 £35.00 £13.09
25th Percentile £39.44 £39.70 £16.23
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.29 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +52.53% +32.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.30 £61.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the North West

Metadata
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the North West

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the North West

Metadata
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the North West

Metadata
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the North West

Metadata
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester 0 8 £713 +42.50% 6
Cheshire +10 7 £538 +19.44%
Lancashire +7 6 - -
Metadata
England

Metadata
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 7 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 7 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) GitHub
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Collibra
2 1 (4.76%) dbt
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 7 (33.33%) PowerPivot
2 7 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Power View
4 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
4 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
5 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (9.52%) Big Data
6 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.76%) Azkaban
7 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.76%) Power BI
7 1 (4.76%) Spark SQL
7 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) ERwin
2 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) PyCharm
2 1 (4.76%) RStudio
General
1 7 (33.33%) Publishing
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (19.05%) Electronics
3 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 4 (19.05%) Marketing
3 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Data Architect
2 6 (28.57%) SharePoint Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Data Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Data Modeller
4 2 (9.52%) Governance Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Document Controller
5 1 (4.76%) Information Architect
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Manager
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Manager
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (4.76%) SharePoint Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) CSS
1 7 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (19.05%) Wiki
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Life Science
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Metadata Management
2 9 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 8 (38.10%) Data Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Data Governance
4 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 7 (33.33%) ITIL
5 6 (28.57%) Data Management
5 6 (28.57%) Information Architecture
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) Physical Data Model
5 6 (28.57%) Statistics
6 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
7 4 (19.05%) Conceptual Models
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (19.05%) Data Flow Diagram
7 4 (19.05%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (19.05%) Domain Models
7 4 (19.05%) Master Data Management
7 4 (19.05%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) Groovy
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) GDPR
2 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (4.76%) GxP
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) SAP
1 7 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (19.05%) Sparx
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow