Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Metadata Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 112 111 131
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +44
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 7 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% 0.054% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.063% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £429 - £380
25th Percentile £450 - £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.92%
75th Percentile £491 - £588
90th Percentile £535 - £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £534
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.69% -11.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,432 1,598 2,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.18% 86.38% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 943 1,338
10th Percentile £263 £207 £232
25th Percentile £400 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £560
90th Percentile £604 £670 £652
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 44 53
10th Percentile £16.44 £12.41 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.88 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +5.32% +0.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.40
90th Percentile £41.16 £43.58 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in Scotland

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 7 £458 - 2
Metadata Management
UK

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe XD
1 1 (14.29%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Figma
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) ERwin
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modeller
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (85.71%) Data Lineage
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) API Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
5 2 (28.57%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (14.29%) AI
6 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Data Security
6 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Usability Testing
6 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Adobe