Metadata Contract Job Trends in the North West

Metadata
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Metadata skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 114 127
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing Metadata 12 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.55% 0.25% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 1.87% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 10
10th Percentile £313 £403 £360
25th Percentile £315 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £419 £563
Median % change year-on-year +13.13% -25.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £528 £433 £716
90th Percentile £564 £439 £738
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 331 321 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.25% 13.34% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 204 346
10th Percentile £313 £350 £314
25th Percentile £361 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.76% -4.50%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £582
90th Percentile £600 £600 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile - £28.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £21.02 £37.81 £39.60
Median hourly rate £30.64 £56.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +7.14% -19.23%
75th Percentile £52.19 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.13 £67.38 £64.60
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +11.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the North West over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 September 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 -1 8 £474 +13.13% 8
Cheshire -18 3 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) WebFOCUS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (16.67%) Big Data
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
1 7 (58.33%) Data Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Information Architect
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
1 1 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Fabric
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Conceptual Models
5 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (25.00%) Information Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
5 3 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Use Case
6 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Data Management
6 2 (16.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) Talend