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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Metadata 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.60% - 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.69% - 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £400
75th Percentile - - £425
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £523 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +2.45% -11.30% +4.55%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 128 85 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.72% 16.70% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 58 69
10th Percentile £333 £310 £285
25th Percentile £375 £357 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £423 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -0.59% +1.19%
75th Percentile £475 £508 £538
90th Percentile £568 £561 £696
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 11
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.68 -
25th Percentile £13.10 £19.40 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +47.14% -67.62%
75th Percentile £58.91 £21.80 £22.73
90th Percentile £83.45 £22.52 £33.25
England median hourly rate £50.50 £32.81 £40.25
% change year-on-year +53.92% -18.48% -30.00%

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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 20 March 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 - 5 £447 - 4
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Metadata
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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Document Controller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) ETL Development
3 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Data Science
4 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio
2 1 (16.67%) Autodesk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft