Metadata Management Contracts in Manchester

Metadata Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 87 111
Rank change year-on-year +6 +24 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Metadata Management 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% 0.084% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.097% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile - £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.92% - -
75th Percentile £319 £663 -
90th Percentile £443 - -
North West median daily rate £313 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -49.92% +38.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
North West median hourly rate - - £66.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 911 1,036 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.05% 86.55% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 651 1,149
10th Percentile £305 £350 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £454 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.30% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 47 54
10th Percentile £17.26 £15.97 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.43 £16.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% +11.43%
75th Percentile £57.75 £62.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.50 £87.00 £68.80
North West median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -22.86% +14.20% +40.71%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in Manchester

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in Manchester

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) WebFOCUS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (20.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft