Metadata Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Metadata
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.52% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8 12 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.12% 13.79% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 30
10th Percentile £409 - £521
25th Percentile £513 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +3.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £676
90th Percentile £650 £681 £703
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £569 £613
% change year-on-year -3.30% -7.14% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £36.00 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -49.30% +21.89%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £71.50
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +133.33% -61.54%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Metadata

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Alation
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft