Metadata Contracts in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 140 154 181
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing Metadata 26 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.79% 0.65% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.48% 4.44% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 29
10th Percentile £363 £520 £390
25th Percentile £450 £588 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £480
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +51.04% -18.64%
75th Percentile £624 £800 £600
90th Percentile £700 £839 -
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 4
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £25.43 £40.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% +7.33% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £46.18 £46.50
90th Percentile £29.50 - £58.20
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year - -24.14% -48.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the North of England

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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 within the North of England 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
North West +13 17 £545 -17.74% 13
North East - 6 £543 - 7
Yorkshire +1 3 £375 -53.10% 6
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England

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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 2 (7.69%) Jupyter
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP ERP
1 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (11.54%) Serverless
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Metadata Repository
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server
1 6 (23.08%) Tableau
2 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (15.38%) Essbase
3 3 (11.54%) Big Data
3 3 (11.54%) Delta Lake
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) ERwin
1 3 (11.54%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Data Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Essbase Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Report Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.85%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) MDX
1 4 (15.38%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 2 (7.69%) ADO
3 2 (7.69%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 5 (19.23%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (7.69%) Taxonomies
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 11 (42.31%) Data Management
3 10 (38.46%) Metadata Management
4 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
5 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Analytics
6 6 (23.08%) Data Architecture
6 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
7 5 (19.23%) Agile
7 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (19.23%) Data Integration
7 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (19.23%) Data Science
7 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
7 5 (19.23%) Information Retrieval
7 5 (19.23%) Mathematics
7 5 (19.23%) Pattern Recognition
7 5 (19.23%) Statistical Modelling
7 5 (19.23%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) Degree
3 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Databricks
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (23.08%) Oracle
4 4 (15.38%) SAP
5 2 (7.69%) Informatica
5 2 (7.69%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (3.85%) Ariba
6 1 (3.85%) IBM
6 1 (3.85%) Talend