Metadata Contracts in Manchester

Metadata
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 95
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +37
Contract jobs citing Metadata 6 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.65% 0.53% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.00% 3.09% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £379 £481 £438
25th Percentile £488 £609 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £713 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% +42.50% -29.82%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £600
90th Percentile £635 £741 £623
North West median daily rate £545 £663 £500
% change year-on-year -17.74% +32.50% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £46.50
90th Percentile - - £58.20
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £43.22 £37.50
% change year-on-year -41.15% +15.24% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 200 259 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 21.60% 17.07% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 201 226
10th Percentile £378 £363 £351
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £656
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile - £35.45 £35.92
25th Percentile £24.25 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £68.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.36% +5.77% +348.28%
75th Percentile £40.75 £74.63 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £78.45 £65.80
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in Manchester

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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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Big Data
2 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) HBase
3 1 (16.67%) Pentaho
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) ERwin
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ADO
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) DataOps
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 2 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Reconciliation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Informatica
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Talend