Metadata Management Contracts in England

Metadata Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 449 522
Rank change year-on-year +30 +73 +46
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 67 92 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.29% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 118
10th Percentile £363 - £425
25th Percentile £463 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £713 £697
90th Percentile £775 £788 £783
UK median daily rate £545 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +9.00% -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £19.89 £62.85
25th Percentile £78.75 £29.06 £64.88
Median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -5.71%
75th Percentile £82.25 £46.18 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in England

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in England

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in England

Metadata Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in England

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +26 38 £600 +33.33% 41
North of England +18 10 £545 -29.65% 3
South East +44 6 £638 +10.39% 20
East of England +33 6 £500 - 1
North West +10 6 £545 +3.81% 1
South West +38 3 £470 -30.37% 2
Yorkshire +4 2 £375 -53.10% 2
North East - 2 £543 -
Midlands +18 1 £375 -34.50% 1
West Midlands +14 1 £375 -34.50% 1
Metadata Management
UK

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (7.46%) SAS
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) CMS
2 3 (4.48%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.49%) HFM
2 1 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) Azure
2 17 (25.37%) AWS
2 17 (25.37%) Power Platform
3 11 (16.42%) Collibra
4 8 (11.94%) GCP
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (5.97%) Serverless
7 3 (4.48%) Alation
7 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.99%) SaaS
9 1 (1.49%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.49%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (100.00%) Metadata
2 21 (31.34%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (25.37%) Power BI
4 12 (17.91%) Data Lake
5 11 (16.42%) Data Mining
6 10 (14.93%) NoSQL
7 9 (13.43%) Tableau
8 7 (10.45%) Big Data
9 6 (8.96%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (7.46%) Essbase
10 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
11 4 (5.97%) QlikView
12 3 (4.48%) Apache Hive
12 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
12 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
12 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (2.99%) HBase
13 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) ERwin
2 4 (5.97%) JIRA
3 3 (4.48%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.99%) Git
General
1 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Banking
4 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.48%) Police
5 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 2 (2.99%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Advertising
7 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Architect
2 18 (26.87%) Data Architect
3 10 (14.93%) Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) Data Analyst
4 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Consultant
6 6 (8.96%) Lead
7 5 (7.46%) Data Modeller
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
8 4 (5.97%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Essbase Consultant
8 4 (5.97%) Governance Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Data Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Data Quality Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (2.99%) Data Manager
10 2 (2.99%) Principal Architect
10 2 (2.99%) SAS Analyst
10 2 (2.99%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) Kafka
2 4 (5.97%) MDX
3 2 (2.99%) PySpark
4 1 (1.49%) ADO
4 1 (1.49%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.49%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.49%) JDBC
4 1 (1.49%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Reference Data
2 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.46%) Data Fabric
3 5 (7.46%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.97%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.48%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.49%) FMCG
7 1 (1.49%) Life Science
7 1 (1.49%) LIMS
7 1 (1.49%) NHS
7 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Replication
7 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Unix
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (61.19%) Data Governance
1 41 (61.19%) Data Modelling
2 29 (43.28%) Data Management
3 25 (37.31%) Analytics
4 22 (32.84%) Data Architecture
5 20 (29.85%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (26.87%) Visualisation
7 17 (25.37%) Data Integration
7 17 (25.37%) Data Lineage
7 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (22.39%) Data Strategy
8 15 (22.39%) ETL
9 14 (20.90%) Data Science
10 13 (19.40%) Data Visualisation
11 12 (17.91%) Data Security
11 12 (17.91%) Logical Data Model
12 11 (16.42%) Data Analysis
13 10 (14.93%) Data Engineering
14 9 (13.43%) Agile
14 9 (13.43%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.76%) SQL
2 15 (22.39%) Python
3 3 (4.48%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.48%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.99%) R
4 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.49%) C#
5 1 (1.49%) Java
5 1 (1.49%) Perl
5 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (14.93%) Degree
2 8 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (41.79%) Data Quality
2 12 (17.91%) GDPR
3 8 (11.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.99%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.99%) QA
6 1 (1.49%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (19.40%) Informatica
3 8 (11.94%) Databricks
3 8 (11.94%) Oracle
4 5 (7.46%) Google
5 4 (5.97%) IBM
5 4 (5.97%) SAP
6 3 (4.48%) Ab Initio
6 3 (4.48%) Sparx
7 2 (2.99%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (2.99%) Talend
8 1 (1.49%) Adobe
8 1 (1.49%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.49%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.49%) Remedy
8 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.49%) StreamSets