Metadata Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Metadata
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Metadata 15 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.98% 0.14% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.04% 0.81% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 11
10th Percentile £409 - £405
25th Percentile £448 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - £500
75th Percentile £688 - £638
90th Percentile £760 - £688
Scotland median daily rate £475 £685 £500
% change year-on-year -30.66% +37.00% -3.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 213 123 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.10% 17.37% 18.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 81 113
10th Percentile £313 £323 -
25th Percentile £386 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £475 £541
90th Percentile £648 £525 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.10% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £17.72 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +180.76% +0.46% -7.14%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Metadata job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Metadata

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Glasgow

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.67%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (13.33%) dbt
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (6.67%) Figma
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) BigQuery
2 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) ERwin
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) PowerDesigner
General
1 13 (86.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Modeller
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum Master
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Teradata Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Data Governance
2 12 (80.00%) Metadata Management
3 11 (73.33%) Data Lineage
4 10 (66.67%) Data Modelling
5 6 (40.00%) Data Transformation
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) Data Design
7 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (20.00%) Data Mapping
7 3 (20.00%) ETL
7 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (13.33%) Analytics
8 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
8 2 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
8 2 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Teradata
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Sparx