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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Metadata 10 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.14% - 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.90% - 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £448 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £560
% change year-on-year +5.00% -10.71% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.27
25th Percentile - - £11.36
Median hourly rate - - £11.62
75th Percentile - - £11.78
90th Percentile - - £11.81
England median hourly rate £63.00 £25.43 £46.06
% change year-on-year +147.74% -44.78% +119.31%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 101 104 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.48% 17.45% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 68 76
10th Percentile £325 £318 £325
25th Percentile £380 £356 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -14.98% +11.11%
75th Percentile £474 £531 £563
90th Percentile £563 £591 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £15.63 - £11.39
25th Percentile £18.76 £21.25 £11.67
Median hourly rate £23.71 £22.50 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +31.95% -71.58%
75th Percentile £36.72 £23.75 £26.11
90th Percentile £56.69 - £30.39
England median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%

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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 job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

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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 19 December 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
Northamptonshire - 7 £425 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 2 - - 7
Derbyshire - 1 - - 3
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (10.00%) Alfresco
4 1 (10.00%) CMS
4 1 (10.00%) Documentum
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) FrameMaker
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (40.00%) Big Data
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (30.00%) HBase
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (10.00%) Military
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Hadoop Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Document Controller
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (60.00%) Metadata Management
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Data Science
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (40.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) ETL Development
4 3 (30.00%) MapReduce
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (30.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Informatica
1 3 (30.00%) Talend
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (10.00%) Autodesk
3 1 (10.00%) OpenText
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle