Metadata Management Contracts in the North of England

Metadata Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 174 205
Rank change year-on-year +18 +31 +17
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 10 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 9
10th Percentile £351 £471 £419
25th Percentile £363 £569 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £775 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.65% +63.11% -34.48%
75th Percentile - £812 £500
90th Percentile £639 £849 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.03% -
England median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the North of England

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the North of England

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the North of England

Metadata Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in the North of England

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +10 6 £545 +3.81% 1
Yorkshire +4 2 £375 -53.10% 2
North East - 2 £543 -
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (10.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) Essbase
3 3 (30.00%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) Big Data
4 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (10.00%) HBase
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
5 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) ERwin
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Essbase Consultant
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Report Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modeller
3 1 (10.00%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) MDX
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 4 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 4 (40.00%) Financial Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Case Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (10.00%) Data Lineage
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (10.00%) Informatica