Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Metadata Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 120 146
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.27% 0.083% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.099% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £314 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £525 £388 -
90th Percentile £575 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £534
% change year-on-year - +3.00% -11.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,950 2,015 2,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.72% 83.54% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,101 1,709
10th Percentile £256 £294 £270
25th Percentile £363 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 111 172
10th Percentile £13.93 £16.85 £15.78
25th Percentile £17.30 £29.00 £17.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +45.92%
75th Percentile £45.37 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £71.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the North West over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the North West

Metadata Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Metadata Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Manchester +4 6 £408 +8.67%
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) WebFOCUS
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (16.67%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) SFIA
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft