Metadata Management Contracts in the Midlands

Metadata Management
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +63
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £332 - £416
25th Percentile £379 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.17%
75th Percentile £419 - £625
90th Percentile £426 - £644
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,158 2,158 2,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.69% 81.19% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,471 1,863
10th Percentile £223 £275 £254
25th Percentile £356 £371 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £649 £713 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 100 79
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.74 £13.59
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £20.24
Median hourly rate £20.83 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -32.73% +44.74%
75th Percentile £26.51 £37.50 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the Midlands

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the Midlands

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
East Midlands - 3 £410 -
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 8
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (60.00%) Big Data
2 3 (60.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (40.00%) HBase
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Scala Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Content Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Content Management
2 2 (40.00%) MapReduce
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 2 (40.00%) Oozie
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) OpenText
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft