Metadata Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Metadata Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 140 142
Rank change year-on-year +41 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 3 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.21% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £438 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £638 £578 £455
% change year-on-year +10.39% +26.92% -35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.99 -
South East median hourly rate - £19.99 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the Thames Valley

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the Thames Valley

Metadata Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in the Thames Valley

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Oxfordshire - 2 £425 - 2
Berkshire +27 1 - - 8
Metadata Management
South East

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (33.33%) HBase
3 1 (33.33%) HDInsight
3 1 (33.33%) Impala
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) MapReduce
3 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Flume
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Alteryx
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) StreamSets
1 1 (33.33%) Talend