Metadata Management Contracts in South Wales

Metadata Management
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 6 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 39 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.85% 0.31% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.40% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £238 - -
25th Percentile £241 - £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £246 - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.26%
75th Percentile £252 - £684
90th Percentile £255 - £694
Wales median daily rate £257 - £663
% change year-on-year - - +23.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 249 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.36% 76.15% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 166 317
10th Percentile £190 £143 £190
25th Percentile £300 £258 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £588
90th Percentile £630 £641 £650
Wales median daily rate £405 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -14.74% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 23
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.51 £16.37
25th Percentile £14.42 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £19.25 £20.24 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +11.55% -15.11%
75th Percentile £41.25 £50.88 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.72 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £23.83 £19.09 £18.14
% change year-on-year +24.84% +5.21% -15.11%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in South Wales

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in South Wales

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Cardiff - 2 £246 - 4
Metadata Management
Wales

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Repository
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Designer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Architect
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Junior
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudera