Metadata Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

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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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 62 65
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Metadata 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.49% 0.52% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.80% 4.04% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% - -
75th Percentile £525 £423 -
90th Percentile - £427 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.83 - -
England median hourly rate £67.49 £19.25 £20.90
% change year-on-year +250.57% -7.89% -51.40%

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 158 99 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.00% 12.87% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 74 90
10th Percentile £304 £291 £312
25th Percentile £394 £364 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £420 £406
Median % change year-on-year +10.12% +3.58% -9.89%
75th Percentile £538 £491 £484
90th Percentile £600 £537 £575
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 3
10th Percentile - £19.40 £20.25
25th Percentile £13.51 £20.75 £20.63
Median hourly rate £19.29 £23.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +2.22% +93.59%
75th Percentile £74.00 £30.98 £37.83
90th Percentile - £35.77 £46.27
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

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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 17 August 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 +17 3 £494 +20.43% 2
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Nottinghamshire -13 1 £500 - 2
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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) SAP HR
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Police
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Document Manager
3 1 (16.67%) GDPR Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (16.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Records Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) CAD
3 1 (16.67%) CAE
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Document Management
3 1 (16.67%) Master Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
1 3 (50.00%) Workday
2 1 (16.67%) Autodesk