Metadata Contracts in Berkshire

Metadata
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 115 103
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 +21
Contract jobs citing Metadata 7 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.24% 2.77% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
South East median daily rate £478 £550 £455
% change year-on-year -13.18% +20.88% -19.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.99 -
South East median hourly rate - £19.99 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Metadata falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 165 253 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.03% 12.77% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 138 180
10th Percentile £404 £313 £340
25th Percentile £457 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £604 £663 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £662
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £511
% change year-on-year +3.95% -5.92% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 8
10th Percentile - £19.00 £44.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £38.32 £53.25
Median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £56.25
% change year-on-year -45.59% +4.72% +43.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Windsor - 4 £489 - 1
Reading +38 3 £508 -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Storage
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Big Data
1 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) HBase
3 1 (14.29%) HDInsight
3 1 (14.29%) Impala
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) ERwin
1 4 (57.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modeller
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Modeller
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Migration
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Data Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Data Science
2 4 (57.14%) Data Security
2 4 (57.14%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (28.57%) Conceptual Models
3 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) MapReduce
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Flume
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) StreamSets