Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Metadata Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.33%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £555 £375 £575
% change year-on-year +48.00% -34.78% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 694 578 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.97% 89.20% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 393 376
10th Percentile £263 £200 £273
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £736 £678
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £493
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.60% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 15 37
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.78
25th Percentile £15.91 £21.25 £19.95
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -3.35% +123.71%
75th Percentile £23.52 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £68.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £24.65
% change year-on-year -6.21% -12.41% +39.19%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes