Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Metadata Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 119 138
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +43
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 4 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.090% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.10% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £501 - £493
25th Percentile £559 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.69%
75th Percentile £859 - £729
90th Percentile £914 - £738
England median daily rate £525 £575 £534
% change year-on-year -8.70% +7.68% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.02
25th Percentile - - £46.05
Median hourly rate - - £46.09
75th Percentile - - £46.14
90th Percentile - - £46.16
England median hourly rate - £19.30 £46.09
% change year-on-year - -58.13% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 1,912 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.65% 86.36% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,168 1,799
10th Percentile £261 £300 £300
25th Percentile £406 £422 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 133 272
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.46 £20.61
25th Percentile £18.87 £40.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the South West over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
Bristol 0 2 - - 1
Somerset - 1 £525 -
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (75.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) FMCG
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Data Design
4 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft