Metadata Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Metadata
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	72	69	-
Rank change year-on-year	-3	-	-
Contract jobs citing Metadata	9	6	0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands	0.65%	0.71%	-
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	6.00%	6.00%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	4	4	0
10^th Percentile	£405	-	-
25^th Percentile	£450	£405	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£494	£415	-
Median % change year-on-year	+18.98%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£506	£430	-
90^th Percentile	£518	-	-
England median daily rate	£550	£538	£523
% change year-on-year	+2.33%	+2.87%	-5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	0	0
Median hourly rate	£12.83	-	-
England median hourly rate	£61.45	£30.50	£43.84
% change year-on-year	+101.48%	-30.43%	-5.07%

All Database & BI Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills	150	100	138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands	10.79%	11.79%	18.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	81	76	93
10^th Percentile	£300	£313	£323
25^th Percentile	£356	£371	£358
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£420	£411
Median % change year-on-year	+1.19%	+2.19%	-13.47%
75^th Percentile	£513	£492	£490
90^th Percentile	£625	£537	£581
England median daily rate	£513	£510	£550
% change year-on-year	+0.49%	-7.27%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	35	2	1
10^th Percentile	£13.10	£20.55	-
25^th Percentile	£13.51	£23.62	£21.25
Median hourly rate	£19.29	£28.98	£22.50
Median % change year-on-year	-33.44%	+28.80%	+93.59%
75^th Percentile	£38.03	£34.10	£23.75
90^th Percentile	£57.50	£37.01	-
England median hourly rate	£41.36	£42.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-1.52%	+19.99%	-33.33%

Metadata Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Metadata Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Metadata.

Metadata Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the East Midlands

Metadata Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Metadata.

Metadata Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 October 2026. 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
Northamptonshire	+16	4	£488	+17.47%	1
Lincolnshire	-	4	-	-	1
Metadata England

Metadata Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Metadata also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region with a requirement for Metadata.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Data Protection	55.6%	5
2	Data Governance	44.4%	4
2	Data Management	44.4%	4
2	Data Quality	44.4%	4
2	Microsoft	44.4%	4
2	Microsoft Office	44.4%	4
2	Records Management	44.4%	4
8	Data Lineage	33.3%	3
8	Data Modelling	33.3%	3
8	Metadata Management	33.3%	3
8	SAP	33.3%	3
8	SAP HR	33.3%	3
8	Workday	33.3%	3
8	Workshop Facilitation	33.3%	3
15	Analytics	22.2%	2
15	Data Mapping	22.2%	2
15	Decision-Making	22.2%	2
15	Master Data Management	22.2%	2
15	Stakeholder Engagement	22.2%	2
15	Stakeholder Management	22.2%	2
15	Validation	22.2%	2
22	Accessibility	11.1%	1
22	Architecture Governance	11.1%	1
22	AWS	11.1%	1
22	Business Intelligence	11.1%	1
22	Business Transformation	11.1%	1
22	Continuous Improvement	11.1%	1
22	Data Analysis	11.1%	1
22	Data Architecture	11.1%	1
22	Data Engineering	11.1%	1

Metadata Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Hadoop	11.1%	1