Metadata Repository Contracts in England

Metadata Repository
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Metadata Repository skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Repository 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 475 499 634
Rank change year-on-year +24 +135 +82
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 10 43 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.12% 0.038%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.22% 0.69% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 16
10th Percentile £302 £663 £525
25th Percentile £363 £750 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £900 £650
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +38.46% -10.34%
75th Percentile £653 £925 £735
90th Percentile £747 £975 £754
UK median daily rate £375 £900 £650
% change year-on-year -58.33% +38.46% -10.34%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Metadata Repository 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Metadata Repository
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Repository in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Repository in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Repository in England

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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 Repository within the 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
North of England - 6 £413 -
North East - 4 £537 -
London +11 3 £725 -19.44% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £375 -
Metadata Repository
UK

Metadata Repository
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 2 (20.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) dbt
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Report Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) Metadata Management
3 5 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (40.00%) ETL
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Data Development
5 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Case Management
6 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (20.00%) ERP
6 2 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
6 2 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
6 2 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy
4 1 (10.00%) Sparx