Metadata Contracts in England

Metadata
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 295 312
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +53
Contract jobs citing Metadata 189 264 390
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.71% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.09% 4.25% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 173 265
10th Percentile £270 £400 £408
25th Percentile £455 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.10% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £646 £800 £688
90th Percentile £781 £925 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 13
10th Percentile £22.63 £13.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.72 £15.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year - -24.14% -48.21%
75th Percentile £56.13 £43.53 £64.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.18 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% -46.97%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,624 6,216 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.00% 16.70% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,460 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £350 £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 £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £781 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 131 166
10th Percentile £19.41 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.43 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -31.09% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.74 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata 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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -8 106 £600 -11.76% 119
North of England +23 26 £525 -27.59% 22
South East +46 21 £478 -13.18% 23
North West +7 17 £545 -17.74% 11
Midlands +22 13 £107 -81.79% 13
West Midlands +16 13 £107 -82.17% 11
East of England +35 12 £320 -21.97% 7
South West +34 8 £525 -6.67% 11
North East - 6 £543 - 5
Yorkshire +8 3 £375 -53.10% 7
Metadata
UK

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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 13 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.29%) SAS
3 5 (2.65%) Confluence
4 4 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.12%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.06%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.76%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.06%) HFM
3 2 (1.06%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.51%) Azure
2 36 (19.05%) AWS
3 27 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 21 (11.11%) GCP
5 20 (10.58%) Collibra
6 16 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.88%) GitHub
8 11 (5.82%) dbt
9 9 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (3.70%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.17%) Serverless
13 5 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
13 5 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.65%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (2.65%) SaaS
14 4 (2.12%) Dropbox
15 3 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) SMS
2 1 (0.53%) FTP
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (28.04%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (14.29%) Power BI
3 25 (13.23%) Data Lake
4 19 (10.05%) Tableau
5 16 (8.47%) Big Data
6 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
7 11 (5.82%) Metadata Repository
7 11 (5.82%) Relational Database
8 10 (5.29%) Data Mining
8 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.70%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.17%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.65%) Essbase
11 5 (2.65%) Neo4j
11 5 (2.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.12%) Base SAS
12 4 (2.12%) QlikView
12 4 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.59%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 12 (6.35%) ERwin
2 8 (4.23%) Git
3 6 (3.17%) ER Studio
3 6 (3.17%) JIRA
4 4 (2.12%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (1.06%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.81%) Finance
3 28 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.52%) Banking
5 10 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (3.70%) Legal
7 7 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Publishing
8 4 (2.12%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Retail
10 2 (1.06%) Billing
10 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Military
10 2 (1.06%) Police
Job Titles
1 50 (26.46%) Architect
2 46 (24.34%) Data Architect
3 27 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 23 (12.17%) Analyst
5 17 (8.99%) Lead
6 16 (8.47%) Senior
7 15 (7.94%) Data Modeller
8 13 (6.88%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.76%) Audio Visual Technician
10 8 (4.23%) Governance Analyst
11 7 (3.70%) Consultant
12 5 (2.65%) Banking Analyst
12 5 (2.65%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.65%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.65%) Senior Data Architect
12 5 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.12%) Azure Architect
13 4 (2.12%) Essbase Consultant
13 4 (2.12%) GCP Engineer
13 4 (2.12%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.88%) PySpark
2 11 (5.82%) Kafka
3 8 (4.23%) Jinja
4 6 (3.17%) React
5 5 (2.65%) Plotly
6 4 (2.12%) ADO
6 4 (2.12%) MDX
7 3 (1.59%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.59%) pytest
8 2 (1.06%) Spring
8 2 (1.06%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.53%) JDBC
9 1 (0.53%) LDAP
9 1 (0.53%) NumPy
9 1 (0.53%) ODBC
9 1 (0.53%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.53%) Pandas
9 1 (0.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.47%) Reference Data
2 15 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.76%) Taxonomies
5 7 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.17%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.17%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.65%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.65%) Data Fabric
7 5 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.12%) Freedom of Information
8 4 (2.12%) Replication
9 3 (1.59%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.06%) Life Science
10 2 (1.06%) NHS
11 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.23%) Unix
2 5 (2.65%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 68 (35.98%) Data Governance
2 68 (35.98%) Metadata Management
3 58 (30.69%) Data Architecture
4 54 (28.57%) Analytics
4 54 (28.57%) Data Management
5 51 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
6 39 (20.63%) ETL
7 36 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (18.52%) Agile
8 35 (18.52%) Data Engineering
9 32 (16.93%) Visualisation
10 31 (16.40%) Data Integration
11 26 (13.76%) Migration
12 25 (13.23%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (13.23%) Data Science
13 24 (12.70%) Machine Learning
14 22 (11.64%) Data Security
14 22 (11.64%) Data Visualisation
15 20 (10.58%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 69 (36.51%) SQL
2 44 (23.28%) Python
3 6 (3.17%) Java
4 5 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.65%) Scala
5 4 (2.12%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.12%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.59%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.59%) PROC SQL
6 3 (1.59%) SAS Macro
7 2 (1.06%) Bash
7 2 (1.06%) C++
7 2 (1.06%) R
8 1 (0.53%) C#
8 1 (0.53%) Perl
8 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (21.16%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.17%) Degree
4 6 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.59%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) ACCA
8 1 (0.53%) CIMA
8 1 (0.53%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.53%) CITP
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (29.10%) Data Quality
2 20 (10.58%) GDPR
3 9 (4.76%) QA
4 8 (4.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (3.17%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.12%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.53%) GMP
8 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 6 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.53%) NFS
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.65%) Terraform
2 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.76%) Databricks
3 23 (12.17%) Informatica
4 15 (7.94%) SAP
5 12 (6.35%) Google
6 10 (5.29%) Oracle
7 6 (3.17%) Sparx
8 5 (2.65%) IBM
8 5 (2.65%) Talend
9 4 (2.12%) Ab Initio
10 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.06%) Autodesk
11 2 (1.06%) Hyperion
11 2 (1.06%) Liquidlogic
12 1 (0.53%) Checkmarx
12 1 (0.53%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.53%) Remedy
12 1 (0.53%) StreamSets