Metadata Management Contracts in the South East

Metadata Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 183 196
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 +54
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 6 8 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.14% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.17% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 22
10th Percentile £439 - £252
25th Percentile £478 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £578 £455
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% +26.92% -31.32%
75th Percentile £825 £722 £543
90th Percentile £848 £784 £623
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.99 -
England median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,725 4,675 5,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.68% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,739 2,738 3,584
10th Percentile £256 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.91% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 434 223
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £17.10
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -3.06% +123.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.96
England median hourly rate £29.15 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -19.76% -0.18% +49.47%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Thames Valley +30 3 £425 -11.46% 5
Hampshire +27 2 £800 +12.28% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £425 - 2
Berkshire +24 1 - - 3
Kent - 1 £500 -
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) HBase
3 1 (16.67%) HDInsight
3 1 (16.67%) Impala
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Governance Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Data Management
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) CRM
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
4 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Flume
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Alteryx
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) StreamSets
1 1 (16.67%) Talend