Metadata Contracts in Cardiff

Metadata
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £180 - -
25th Percentile £200 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 - -
75th Percentile £236 - -
90th Percentile £249 - -
South Wales median daily rate £213 - £663
% change year-on-year - - +14.97%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18 55 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.25% 25.94% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 48 40
10th Percentile £185 £381 £309
25th Percentile £200 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £236 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -55.26% +0.48% +13.51%
75th Percentile £288 £588 £650
90th Percentile £381 £652 £675
South Wales median daily rate £247 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -52.00% -6.36% +6.80%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (20.00%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Junior
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Junior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) Data Development
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google
2 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (20.00%) Remedy