Metadata Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Metadata
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing Metadata 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.41% - 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.15% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £481 - £288
25th Percentile £485 - £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £504 - £469
90th Percentile £510 - £503
East of England median daily rate £500 £318 £450
% change year-on-year +57.23% -29.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.52
East of England median hourly rate - - £21.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 33 20 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.30% 5.10% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 25
10th Percentile £381 £312 £307
25th Percentile £452 £348 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £634 £585 £575
90th Percentile £719 £605 £690
East of England median daily rate £500 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £33.45 £18.83 £15.51
25th Percentile £36.75 £20.06 £29.77
Median hourly rate £43.50 £22.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% -69.67% +215.79%
75th Percentile £50.30 £26.06 £77.50
90th Percentile £53.63 £27.68 -
East of England median hourly rate £32.50 £16.99 £61.25
% change year-on-year +91.29% -72.26% +50.38%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Metadata

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Huntingdon - 3 £492 - 1
Cambridge - 1 - - 1
Metadata
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 5 (100.00%) SAP FI
1 5 (100.00%) SAP MM
1 5 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Consultant
1 5 (100.00%) SAP Consultant
1 5 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) SAP Basis
1 5 (100.00%) SAP Business Workflow
1 5 (100.00%) SAP Fiori
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Accounts Payable
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 5 (100.00%) Invoice Processing
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (100.00%) OCR
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
1 5 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) OpenText
1 5 (100.00%) SAP
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow