Metadata Repository Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Metadata Repository
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Metadata Repository skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 136 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.28% 0.038% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.49% 0.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £537 - -
25th Percentile £542 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.76% - -
75th Percentile £581 £369 -
90th Percentile £583 - -
England median daily rate £558 £625 £720
% change year-on-year -10.72% -13.19% +37.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

Metadata Repository 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 537 428 418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.55% 16.15% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 274 293
10th Percentile £350 £325 £308
25th Percentile £410 £377 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +0.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £559 £586 £575
90th Percentile £639 £675 £688
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £31.15 £23.79 £11.39
25th Percentile £33.88 £27.59 £11.67
Median hourly rate £34.98 £33.93 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +98.97% -33.13%
75th Percentile £36.00 £34.47 £25.56
90th Percentile £37.78 £34.79 £28.85
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year +24.29% -27.76% -7.72%

Metadata Repository
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Metadata Repository job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Metadata Repository
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Metadata Repository.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Metadata Repository

Metadata Repository
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 Repository within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
West Midlands -18 8 £561 +54.76% 5
Metadata Repository
England

Metadata Repository
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (62.50%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Metadata
2 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (50.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Architect
1 8 (100.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SAS Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 8 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 8 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 8 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 7 (87.50%) Reverse Engineering
3 6 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (75.00%) Data Design
3 6 (75.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (62.50%) Data Analysis
4 5 (62.50%) Impact Analysis
4 5 (62.50%) Problem Management
5 4 (50.00%) Scrum
5 4 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
6 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
6 3 (37.50%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
8 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Remedy
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle