Metadata Management Contracts in the East of England

Metadata Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 112 125
Rank change year-on-year +42 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £476
25th Percentile £475 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% -2.08%
75th Percentile £525 - £666
90th Percentile - - £709
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.95
25th Percentile £78.75 - £62.63
Median hourly rate £80.50 - £64.50
75th Percentile £82.25 - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £65.85
England median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 838 1,647 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.15% 86.01% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 703 1,050
10th Percentile £225 £209 £204
25th Percentile £400 £332 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 611 338
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the East of England

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the East of England

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Hertfordshire - 6 £500 - 1
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 4 (66.67%) Data Mining
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ER Studio
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modeller
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Principal Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (66.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 6 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
2 5 (83.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Conceptual Models
3 4 (66.67%) Data Science
3 4 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Ontologies
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft