Metadata Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Metadata
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.96% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £541 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 149 85 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 23.80% 20.48% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 59 16
10th Percentile £326 £425 £313
25th Percentile £396 £500 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +11.39% -10.23%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £700
90th Percentile £600 £700 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £469
% change year-on-year -13.64% +17.33% -14.77%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Metadata

Metadata
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Collibra
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (16.67%) DataStage
3 1 (16.67%) DB2
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 3 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 3 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (50.00%) Regular Expression
1 3 (50.00%) SpaCy
1 3 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 3 (50.00%) Image Processing
2 3 (50.00%) Intelligent Automation
2 3 (50.00%) KYC
2 3 (50.00%) LLM
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (50.00%) OCR
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle