Metadata Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Metadata
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 77 98
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +28
Contract jobs citing Metadata 7 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.66% 0.52% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.00% 3.57% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £313 £370 £350
25th Percentile £314 £381 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £400 £688
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% -41.82% +28.50%
75th Percentile £525 £422 £738
90th Percentile £565 £435 -
North West median daily rate £386 £400 £580
% change year-on-year -3.44% -31.03% +16.00%

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 175 168 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.51% 14.60% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 100 221
10th Percentile £315 £375 £300
25th Percentile £363 £412 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £565 £606
90th Percentile £602 £594 £688
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £494
% change year-on-year -5.56% -8.86% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £28.50 £37.50
25th Percentile - £37.81 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -14.29%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £68.13
90th Percentile - £67.38 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £56.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +7.14% -24.18%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Manchester

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Metadata

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Manchester over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Manchester

Metadata
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Metadata

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) WebFOCUS
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
1 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Metadata Management
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Encryption
5 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (14.29%) Data Lineage
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Document Management
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) SFIA
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft