Metadata Contracts in the Midlands

Metadata
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 99 118 160
Rank change year-on-year +19 +42 +14
Contract jobs citing Metadata 12 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 0.54% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.24% 3.61% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 6
10th Percentile - £556 £403
25th Percentile - £563 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £107 £588 £475
Median % change year-on-year -81.79% +23.68% -12.04%
75th Percentile - £794 £603
90th Percentile £388 £925 £644
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +13 12 £107 -82.17% 11
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England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Audio Visual Technician
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 9 (75.00%) ITSM
2 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Security
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Modelling
4 1 (8.33%) Data Development
4 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Metadata Management
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CITP
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft