Metadata Contracts in the North of England

Metadata
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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 152 172
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +51
Contract jobs citing Metadata 27 26 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 0.56% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.63% 3.73% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 26
10th Percentile £363 £485 £440
25th Percentile £438 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +40.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £581 £800 £600
90th Percentile £700 £849 £619
England median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -
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 £25.43 £22.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +13.02% -40.98% -45.54%

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 583 697 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.61% 14.88% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 522 577
10th Percentile £352 £351 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £583 £620
90th Percentile £618 £644 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 15
10th Percentile £21.61 £11.00 £32.00
25th Percentile £22.72 £15.69 £36.40
Median hourly rate £25.43 £40.25 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% -0.84% +30.94%
75th Percentile £32.08 £44.74 £60.70
90th Percentile £55.78 £48.44 £65.60
England median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -20.39% -31.73% +33.31%

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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 29 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 29 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 +7 19 £545 -0.91% 86
North East - 5 £463 - 29
Yorkshire +4 3 £375 -53.11% 70
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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 (7.41%) Jupyter
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP ERP
1 2 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) dbt
6 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 6 (22.22%) Tableau
2 5 (18.52%) Metadata Repository
3 4 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (14.81%) Essbase
4 3 (11.11%) Big Data
4 3 (11.11%) Delta Lake
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.41%) Power BI
5 2 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) ERwin
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Data Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Essbase Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Information Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Report Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Associate Director
5 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Data Modeller
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Architect
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Data Architect
5 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) MDX
1 4 (14.81%) PySpark
2 2 (7.41%) ADO
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) Spring
2 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 5 (18.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Data Fabric
3 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Data Modelling
2 12 (44.44%) Data Management
3 11 (40.74%) Data Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (33.33%) Metadata Management
5 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.93%) Agile
7 6 (22.22%) Analytics
7 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
8 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (18.52%) Data Architecture
8 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
8 5 (18.52%) Data Integration
8 5 (18.52%) Data Science
8 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
8 5 (18.52%) Information Retrieval
8 5 (18.52%) Mathematics
8 5 (18.52%) Pattern Recognition
8 5 (18.52%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (18.52%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
3 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Databricks
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
3 6 (22.22%) Oracle
4 4 (14.81%) SAP
5 2 (7.41%) Informatica
5 2 (7.41%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (3.70%) Ariba
6 1 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (3.70%) Talend