Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Metadata Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.67% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £604 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £608 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +62.35% -53.19%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £405
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £608 £500
% change year-on-year -25.99% +21.60% -24.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 574 819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.50% 93.79% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 312 492
10th Percentile £190 £193 £221
25th Percentile £406 £380 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £637 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 26
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.49% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £70.50 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Data Security
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (75.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Informatica
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Talend
2 2 (50.00%) Google