Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Metadata Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East 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 158 173 210
Rank change year-on-year +15 +37 +33
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.17% 0.094% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.11% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £467 - £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.96%
75th Percentile £739 - £788
90th Percentile £838 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £534
% change year-on-year - +3.00% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.30 -
England median hourly rate - £19.30 £46.09
% change year-on-year - -58.13% -

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 3,151 3,565 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.71% 83.53% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,970 2,144 3,286
10th Percentile £213 £255 £239
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 183 258
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £21.25 £58.49 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year -63.67% +7.56% +61.29%
75th Percentile £44.86 £70.00 £67.69
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.19 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the South East

Metadata Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Metadata Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
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 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
Hampshire - 3 £775 -
Thames Valley +8 2 £488 - 5
Berkshire +8 1 £463 - 4
Buckinghamshire +5 1 £513 - 1
West Sussex - 1 £500 -
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Collibra
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Alation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Dagster
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Poetry
1 1 (16.67%) Pylint
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Data Lineage
2 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft