Metadata Contracts in the East of England

Metadata
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 102 111
Rank change year-on-year +32 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing Metadata 12 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.28% 0.52% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.16% 8.62% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £318 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.97% -8.89% -25.00%
75th Percentile £474 £415 £522
90th Percentile £606 £458 £651
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £43.75
25th Percentile £78.75 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £80.50 - £62.75
75th Percentile £82.25 - £64.88
90th Percentile - - £65.55
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year - -24.14% -48.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 131 116 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.97% 6.08% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 172
10th Percentile £327 £303 £250
25th Percentile £419 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £552 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 18
10th Percentile £19.84 £16.15 £21.38
25th Percentile £31.64 £22.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%
75th Percentile £65.63 £33.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.38 £34.40 £68.33
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the East of England

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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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +34 7 £404 - 4
Essex - 3 £318 -
Bedfordshire +2 2 £675 -
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) dbt
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (8.33%) Big Data
4 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (8.33%) Looker
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ER Studio
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Automotive
3 2 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
1 6 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Associate Director
3 1 (8.33%) DBA
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) NumPy
2 1 (8.33%) Pandas
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (41.67%) Reference Data
3 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (8.33%) Life Science
4 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 6 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 6 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) Conceptual Models
3 5 (41.67%) Data Science
3 5 (41.67%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (41.67%) ETL
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Use Case
3 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 3 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) GMP
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
3 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace