Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Metadata Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £479 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 387 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.83% 89.79% 96.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 203 244
10th Percentile £313 £250 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% -11.48% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £663
90th Percentile £633 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £518 £582
% change year-on-year -7.25% -11.03% +16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £14.66 £13.14 £18.33
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £18.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -1.23% +6.58%
75th Percentile £20.44 £21.50 £24.88
90th Percentile £25.15 - £28.70
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
% change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Collibra
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) DataStage
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle