Metadata Contracts in the East Midlands

Metadata
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 68 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.14% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.05% 1.56% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £405 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -23.81% -
75th Percentile £415 £425 £588
90th Percentile - - £625
England median daily rate £523 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.62% +18.18% -

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 95 128 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.57% 14.80% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 88 113
10th Percentile £313 £288 £223
25th Percentile £358 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £473 £508
90th Percentile £516 £536 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile £18.29 £12.51 £19.80
25th Percentile £18.43 - £20.92
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.00 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -40.17% -33.14%
75th Percentile £26.99 £20.00 £25.26
90th Percentile £34.17 £27.77 £25.99
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -15.00% -29.76% +41.84%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the East Midlands

Metadata
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the East Midlands

Metadata
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the East Midlands

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 30 June 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 - 1 £410 - 3
Metadata
England

Metadata
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Banking Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Banking Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft