Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Metadata Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - 91
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.076% - 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% - 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
South East median daily rate £463 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -7.50% +4.17% +5.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,097 740 1,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.92% 85.16% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 516 602
10th Percentile £311 £356 £350
25th Percentile £447 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.06% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 43 84
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -37.16% +29.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Basingstoke - 1 £375 -
Metadata Management
South East

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Poetry
1 1 (100.00%) Pylint
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Google