Metadata Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Metadata
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Norfolk requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 2.73% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £320 £410
% change year-on-year +79.74% -21.97% -8.89%

All Database & BI Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 25 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 11.36% 35.48% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 6
10th Percentile £143 £364 £234
25th Percentile £313 - £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £306
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +46.82% +11.45%
75th Percentile £438 - £368
90th Percentile £558 - £431
East of England median daily rate £525 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +7.69% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £13.95
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.20 £17.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.40 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -12.65% -
75th Percentile £23.25 £21.60 £29.88
90th Percentile £23.85 - £32.05
East of England median hourly rate £32.00 £49.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year -34.69% +94.60% -60.81%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Metadata

Metadata
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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
Norwich - 6 £475 - 3
Metadata
East of England

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Collibra
2 2 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Boomi
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Designer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) DataOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
1 4 (66.67%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (50.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
1 5 (83.33%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Design Thinking
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (33.33%) ERP
4 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica
1 3 (50.00%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft