Metadata Contracts in the South East

Metadata
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 177 166
Rank change year-on-year +49 -11 +59
Contract jobs citing Metadata 21 19 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 0.34% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 3.14% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 32
10th Percentile £300 £290 £266
25th Percentile £466 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £455
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +20.88% -19.11%
75th Percentile £509 £688 £550
90th Percentile £706 £775 £623
England median daily rate £515 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -17.60% +13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.99 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +22.22% -40.98% -45.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 399 606 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.37% 10.98% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 376 594
10th Percentile £321 £314 £313
25th Percentile £408 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -5.34% +3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 32 44
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £22.08 £26.21
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +7.10% +144.44%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £75.53
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.25 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.37% -28.63% +25.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata 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 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata 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 in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata 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 within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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 +43 9 £500 +4.17% 13
Berkshire +29 7 £503 +4.69% 5
Hampshire +24 6 £513 -21.15% 1
West Sussex - 4 £469 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £425 - 5
Surrey - 1 £475 - 1
Kent - 1 £500 - 1
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England

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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 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (33.33%) Big Data
3 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 3 (14.29%) Tableau
5 2 (9.52%) NewSQL
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (9.52%) Power BI
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.76%) DB2
6 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.76%) HBase
6 1 (4.76%) HDInsight
6 1 (4.76%) Impala
6 1 (4.76%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) ERwin
2 4 (19.05%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (4.76%) ER Studio
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Billing
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Advertising
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Data Modeller
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Data Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Document Controller
3 2 (9.52%) Platform Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Data Governance Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Data Governance Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Development Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Governance Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Report Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.52%) Replication
2 1 (4.76%) Data Fabric
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
2 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Migration
2 9 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (42.86%) ETL
3 8 (38.10%) Data Modelling
4 6 (28.57%) Analytics
4 6 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 6 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 6 (28.57%) Data Security
4 6 (28.57%) Metadata Management
4 6 (28.57%) Validation
5 5 (23.81%) Data Management
5 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
5 5 (23.81%) Physical Data Model
6 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Data Science
6 4 (19.05%) Data Validation
7 3 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Flume
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) Autodesk
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.52%) Talend
4 1 (4.76%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) StreamSets