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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 303 316
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing Metadata 186 249 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.68% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.09% 4.00% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 159 248
10th Percentile £235 £400 £413
25th Percentile £452 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £669 £825 £713
90th Percentile £775 £925 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -12.61% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 14
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.50 £22.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £25.43 £22.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% -40.98% -45.54%
75th Percentile £30.00 £42.88 £64.31
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.18 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £25.43 £32.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -21.75% -8.77% -47.61%

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 4,546 6,228 8,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.95% 17.06% 17.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,167 4,502 6,098
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 135 158
10th Percentile £20.05 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -19.88% -31.09% +32.07%
75th Percentile £65.34 £56.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £76.88 £74.00 £83.60
UK median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -15.49% -31.73% +30.20%

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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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 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 -1 102 £600 -11.76% 265
North of England +15 27 £513 -26.79% 244
South East +55 24 £478 -7.28% 283
North West +7 19 £545 -0.91% 117
West Midlands +18 13 £107 -84.71% 103
Midlands +11 13 £107 -83.54% 183
East of England +29 12 £321 -21.61% 138
South West +29 6 £588 -12.96% 111
North East - 5 £463 - 34
Yorkshire +9 3 £375 -53.11% 93
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 16 (8.60%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.30%) SAS
3 7 (3.76%) CMS
4 6 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.61%) Apache
6 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.08%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.54%) Confluence
7 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (8.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.76%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.08%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.08%) HFM
2 2 (1.08%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 53 (28.49%) Azure
2 33 (17.74%) AWS
3 23 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 21 (11.29%) Collibra
5 17 (9.14%) GCP
6 14 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (6.45%) dbt
8 11 (5.91%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (4.84%) GitHub
10 8 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.69%) SaaS
13 4 (2.15%) Alation
13 4 (2.15%) Dropbox
13 4 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.15%) Serverless
14 3 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) SMS
2 1 (0.54%) FTP
2 1 (0.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (14.52%) Data Lake
3 23 (12.37%) Power BI
4 17 (9.14%) Big Data
5 15 (8.06%) Tableau
6 12 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 11 (5.91%) SQL Server
8 10 (5.38%) Data Mining
8 10 (5.38%) Delta Lake
8 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.30%) Metadata Repository
10 7 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.69%) Essbase
11 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (2.15%) Base SAS
12 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.61%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.91%) ERwin
2 5 (2.69%) Git
3 4 (2.15%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (1.61%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.08%) GitLab
5 2 (1.08%) JIRA
6 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (14.52%) Finance
4 25 (13.44%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.60%) Banking
6 11 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (4.84%) Legal
9 6 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.69%) Marketing
10 5 (2.69%) Publishing
11 4 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.15%) Police
12 3 (1.61%) Military
12 3 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.08%) Automotive
13 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.08%) Law
13 2 (1.08%) Retail
13 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (23.12%) Architect
2 40 (21.51%) Data Architect
3 32 (17.20%) Data Engineer
4 21 (11.29%) Analyst
5 20 (10.75%) Lead
6 15 (8.06%) Senior
7 11 (5.91%) Data Modeller
8 10 (5.38%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.84%) Audio Visual Technician
10 8 (4.30%) Consultant
11 6 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.69%) Governance Analyst
12 5 (2.69%) Senior Data Engineer
13 4 (2.15%) Azure Architect
13 4 (2.15%) Data Consultant
13 4 (2.15%) Developer
13 4 (2.15%) Essbase Consultant
13 4 (2.15%) Oracle Consultant
13 4 (2.15%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.60%) PySpark
2 12 (6.45%) Kafka
3 7 (3.76%) Jinja
4 5 (2.69%) React
5 4 (2.15%) ADO
5 4 (2.15%) MDX
6 3 (1.61%) Plotly
7 2 (1.08%) HTML
7 2 (1.08%) Spring
7 2 (1.08%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.54%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.54%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.54%) JDBC
8 1 (0.54%) LDAP
8 1 (0.54%) NumPy
8 1 (0.54%) ODBC
8 1 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.54%) Pandas
8 1 (0.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.45%) Reference Data
3 11 (5.91%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.30%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.30%) Taxonomies
6 7 (3.76%) Data Fabric
6 7 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.15%) Freedom of Information
8 4 (2.15%) Replication
9 3 (1.61%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.61%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.08%) Life Science
10 2 (1.08%) NHS
11 1 (0.54%) CMDB
11 1 (0.54%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.30%) Unix
2 6 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Android
3 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (43.01%) Data Modelling
2 75 (40.32%) Data Governance
3 65 (34.95%) Metadata Management
4 56 (30.11%) Data Management
5 53 (28.49%) Analytics
6 52 (27.96%) Data Architecture
7 48 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (23.12%) ETL
9 42 (22.58%) Data Engineering
10 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (18.28%) Agile
12 29 (15.59%) Data Integration
13 27 (14.52%) Data Science
13 27 (14.52%) Migration
13 27 (14.52%) Visualisation
14 25 (13.44%) Data Security
15 23 (12.37%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (11.83%) Data Lineage
17 21 (11.29%) Decision-Making
18 20 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.63%) SQL
2 47 (25.27%) Python
3 8 (4.30%) Scala
4 6 (3.23%) Java
5 5 (2.69%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.15%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.61%) C++
7 3 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.61%) PROC SQL
7 3 (1.61%) SAS Macro
8 2 (1.08%) Bash
8 2 (1.08%) R
9 1 (0.54%) C#
9 1 (0.54%) Perl
9 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.90%) Degree
4 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.54%) ACCA
9 1 (0.54%) CIMA
9 1 (0.54%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.54%) CITP
9 1 (0.54%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (31.18%) Data Quality
2 21 (11.29%) GDPR
3 8 (4.30%) QA
4 7 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.15%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.54%) GxP
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (2.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.54%) NFS
2 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.23%) Terraform
2 4 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.44%) Databricks
2 25 (13.44%) Informatica
3 15 (8.06%) SAP
4 11 (5.91%) Google
4 11 (5.91%) Oracle
5 6 (3.23%) Talend
6 4 (2.15%) Adobe
6 4 (2.15%) Sparx
7 3 (1.61%) IBM
7 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.08%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.08%) Autodesk
8 2 (1.08%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.08%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.08%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.54%) Aveksa
9 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.54%) CyberArk