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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - +26
Contract jobs citing Metadata 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.76% - 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.38% - 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +75.44%
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.32%
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 £22.00 £39.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year -44.30% -14.13% +1.95%

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 94 130 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.97% 16.58% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 89 85
10th Percentile £304 £320 £300
25th Percentile £368 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £411 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -13.47% -4.52%
75th Percentile £492 £475 £530
90th Percentile £537 £580 £677
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £20.55 - £11.27
25th Percentile £23.62 £21.25 £11.36
Median hourly rate £28.98 £22.50 £11.62
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +93.59% -66.79%
75th Percentile £34.10 £23.75 £11.78
90th Percentile £37.01 - £11.81
England median hourly rate £42.00 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.85% -34.09% +22.22%

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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

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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 17 September 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 - 4 £415 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 3
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Metadata
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (16.67%) Alfresco
2 1 (16.67%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Documentum
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) FrameMaker
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (50.00%) HBase
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (16.67%) Military
4 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Content Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) PLM
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (50.00%) Oozie
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) OpenText
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle