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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 495 584
Rank change year-on-year -11 +89 +160
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 6 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.090% 0.073%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% 0.49% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 27
10th Percentile £466 £663 £550
25th Percentile £489 £700 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £875 £720
Median % change year-on-year -29.71% +21.61% +33.86%
75th Percentile £755 £925 £742
90th Percentile £785 - £755
UK median daily rate £505 £875 £675
% change year-on-year -42.29% +29.63% +22.73%

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 5,007 6,140 7,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.15% 18.33% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,461 4,382 5,531
10th Percentile £348 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £760
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.95% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 91 146
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £21.05
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.38 £33.05
Median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +35.04%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.78 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.74 £71.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% -35.45% +35.04%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -14 5 £725 -19.44% 10
North of England -9 1 £450 +2.86% 1
North East - 1 £450 - 1
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 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Management Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Conceptual Models
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Data Design
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 3 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Sparx
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Sage