Metadata Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Metadata
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.38% 0.37% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.26% 3.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
South East median daily rate £506 £478 £550
% change year-on-year +6.02% -13.18% +6.80%

All Database & BI Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 78 33 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 13.43% 12.27% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 22 58
10th Percentile £205 £280 £313
25th Percentile £405 £316 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £389 £455
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -14.56% -17.27%
75th Percentile £600 £494 £538
90th Percentile £635 £538 £683
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.36
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £25.88 £48.18
% change year-on-year +41.85% -46.28% -17.77%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Surrey

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Metadata

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Surrey over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Surrey

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Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Metadata

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Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
Staines - 5 £425 -
Redhill -3 2 - -
Metadata
South East

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) dbt
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Integration Patterns
1 5 (62.50%) Metadata Management
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Anomaly Detection
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Line Management
3 3 (37.50%) LLM
3 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Optimisation
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle