Metadata Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Metadata
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.30% - 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.26% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £415 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £11.27
25th Percentile - - £11.36
Median hourly rate - - £11.62
75th Percentile - - £11.78
90th Percentile - - £11.81
East Midlands median hourly rate - - £11.62

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 39 68 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 12.70% 26.98% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 55 8
10th Percentile £296 £340 £263
25th Percentile £340 £356 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £355
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +12.68% -29.00%
75th Percentile £449 £445 £398
90th Percentile £480 £484 £399
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £401 £475
% change year-on-year +4.87% -15.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £11.33
25th Percentile - - £11.52
Median hourly rate - - £11.83
75th Percentile - - £17.78
90th Percentile - - £21.35
East Midlands median hourly rate £38.96 £22.50 £11.83
% change year-on-year +73.16% +90.19% -53.61%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Metadata

Metadata
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Metadata

Metadata
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Northampton - 4 £415 - 2
Metadata
East Midlands

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Banking Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) MapReduce
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (75.00%) Oozie
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft