Metadata Contracts in Hertfordshire

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East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 73 69
Rank change year-on-year +34 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Metadata 7 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.18% 0.12% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.86% 3.03% 5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £321 - -
25th Percentile £347 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £504 - -
East of England median daily rate £320 £410 £450
% change year-on-year -21.97% -8.89% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £61.30
25th Percentile £78.75 - £61.38
Median hourly rate £80.50 - £63.00
75th Percentile £82.25 - £65.25
90th Percentile - - £65.70
East of England median hourly rate £80.50 - £62.75

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 59 33 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 18.38% 3.95% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 57
10th Percentile £409 £325 £388
25th Percentile £425 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.28% +13.16%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £788
East of England median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £31.64 - £61.28
25th Percentile £39.11 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 £15.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +320.00% -77.10% +87.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 - £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 - £72.98
East of England median hourly rate £49.00 £24.84 £63.00
% change year-on-year +97.26% -60.57% +80.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Stevenage - 6 £308 - 3
Letchworth - 1 £500 -
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ER Studio
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Data Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modeller
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (57.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (57.14%) Reference Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
1 6 (85.71%) Data Strategy
1 6 (85.71%) Logical Data Model
1 6 (85.71%) Metadata Management
2 5 (71.43%) Data Architecture
3 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 4 (57.14%) Conceptual Models
3 4 (57.14%) Data Science
3 4 (57.14%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Physical Data Model
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GMP
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft