Metadata Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Metadata
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Metadata 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.91% 0.22% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 0.98% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £381 - -
25th Percentile £439 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +67.81% -33.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £780 - £781
90th Percentile - - £793
West Yorkshire median daily rate £671 £375 £750
% change year-on-year +79.00% -50.00% +56.25%

All Database & BI Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 152 102 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 17.33% 22.08% 15.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 68 100
10th Percentile £400 £400 £394
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £596
90th Percentile £675 £738 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +2.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £29.60 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £31.54 £19.44
Median hourly rate £74.00 £32.96 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +124.51% +59.19% -
75th Percentile - £34.38 £21.97
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £74.00 £32.96 £20.71
% change year-on-year +124.51% +59.19% -

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Leeds

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Metadata

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Leeds over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Leeds

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (37.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
3 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 3 (37.50%) Marketing
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Law
5 1 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (12.50%) Social Science
5 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
2 6 (75.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
3 3 (37.50%) Insight Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Lead
4 2 (25.00%) Data Insight Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Insight Data Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Lead Data Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Product Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 3 (37.50%) Data Design
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Physical Data Model
3 3 (37.50%) Pricing Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Stress Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Teradata
3 1 (12.50%) Foundry