Metadata Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Metadata
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Metadata 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.59% - 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.66% - 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £556 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.65%
75th Percentile £838 - £669
90th Percentile £853 - £688
South East median daily rate £469 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -18.48% +27.78% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.73
Median hourly rate - - £31.45
75th Percentile - - £32.18
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £13.50 £48.18 £51.73
% change year-on-year -71.98% -6.85% +283.15%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 106 100 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.48% 8.08% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 80 96
10th Percentile £371 £360 £406
25th Percentile £449 £424 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £556 £625 £636
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.32% +7.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 20
10th Percentile - - £20.42
25th Percentile - £52.50 £21.05
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £56.80
Median % change year-on-year - -3.16% +155.26%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £70.93
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £51.59 £49.50
% change year-on-year -53.48% +4.22% +128.64%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Metadata

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Hampshire over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Hampshire

Metadata
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Metadata

Metadata
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 within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Basingstoke - 3 £375 -
Southampton - 2 £775 -
Metadata
South East

Metadata
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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Dagster
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ER Studio
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Poetry
1 1 (16.67%) Pylint
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Report Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Insight
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce