Metadata Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 56 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.02% 0.22% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 1.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £475 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £542 £525 -
90th Percentile £609 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £800
% change year-on-year +5.00% -37.50% +52.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 161 97 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.57% 20.95% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 66 20
10th Percentile £318 £419 £268
25th Percentile £400 £500 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +17.33% -14.77%
75th Percentile £525 £622 £569
90th Percentile £600 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in South Yorkshire

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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 within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 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 - 6 £525 - 3
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Yorkshire

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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 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Collibra
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Alation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Ataccama
3 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) DataStage
3 1 (14.29%) DB2
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Hugging Face
1 3 (42.86%) OpenCV
1 3 (42.86%) PyTorch
1 3 (42.86%) Regular Expression
1 3 (42.86%) SpaCy
1 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Great Expectations
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lineage
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Deep Learning
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Image Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Intelligent Automation
2 3 (42.86%) KYC
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
2 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (42.86%) OCR
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
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