Metadata Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Metadata
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Metadata 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.40% - 2.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.34% - 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £289 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £293 - £410
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.89%
75th Percentile £296 - £415
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £293 - £410
% change year-on-year - - -8.89%

All Database & BI Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 29 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 13.55% 7.75% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 9
10th Percentile £211 £379 £383
25th Percentile £344 £389 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £488 £410
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +18.90% -8.89%
75th Percentile £562 £566 £415
90th Percentile £585 £648 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £530 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +8.72% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.44 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £23.72 £17.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.26% -35.27% +71.88%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £28.24 £19.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +47.47% -30.36% +71.88%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Metadata

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Celery
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) LIMS
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Informatics
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
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