Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Metadata Management
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 81 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% 0.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £431 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £525 -
90th Percentile £638 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £900
% change year-on-year -5.00% -44.44% +100.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 650 422 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.73% 89.22% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 220 259
10th Percentile £305 £230 £375
25th Percentile £387 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £518 £582
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -11.03% +16.33%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £651
90th Percentile £638 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £18.82 £21.31
% change year-on-year +33.05% -11.70% +12.16%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in South Yorkshire

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 2 £438 - 1
Metadata Management
Yorkshire

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Collibra
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Alation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Ataccama
3 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (33.33%) DataStage
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Steward
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Great Expectations
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle