Metadata Repository Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Metadata Repository
England > North of England

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 188 164
Rank change year-on-year -65 -24 -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.053% 0.025% 0.024%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.40% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% -
75th Percentile £568 - £444
90th Percentile £691 - -
England median daily rate £540 £505 £875
% change year-on-year +6.93% -42.29% +21.53%

All Database & BI Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,005 687 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.27% 17.10% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 474 406
10th Percentile £350 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.83% -2.35%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £575
90th Percentile £665 £613 £649
England median daily rate £501 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 6 15
10th Percentile £20.41 £21.02 £11.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.71 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.50 £34.56 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.67% +81.87% -52.50%
75th Percentile £74.38 £39.00 £34.38
90th Percentile £77.00 £64.38 £60.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £38.23 £33.22
% change year-on-year +0.71% +15.10% -39.61%

Metadata Repository
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Metadata Repository job vacancy trend in the North of England

Metadata Repository
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Metadata Repository.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Metadata Repository

Metadata Repository
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Repository in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Repository in the North of England

Metadata Repository
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 Repository within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 2
North West - 2 £598 - 1
Metadata Repository
England

Metadata Repository
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FHIR
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (25.00%) API Management
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Development
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks