Metadata Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Metadata
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 3.39% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile £725 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £425 £180
% change year-on-year +17.65% +136.11% -

All Database & BI Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 13.56% 15.79% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £278 £354 £369
25th Percentile £300 £360 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -7.10%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £475
90th Percentile £650 - £520
Oxfordshire median daily rate £500 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +21.21% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.72 - -
Median hourly rate £26.44 - -
75th Percentile £27.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £27.16 £27.76 -
% change year-on-year -2.16% - -

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Oxford

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Metadata

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Oxford over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Oxford

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft