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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 122 138
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Metadata Management 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.060% 0.089% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.11% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £513 £713 £550
% change year-on-year -28.07% +29.55% +9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.30 -
South East median hourly rate - £19.30 -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,523 1,893 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.69% 84.66% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,073 1,694
10th Percentile £300 £263 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 106 87
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £15.35
25th Percentile £15.12 £23.37 £22.88
Median hourly rate £24.58 £55.44 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.67% +10.88% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £66.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.45 £74.87
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +86.12%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Metadata Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £513 - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Alation
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Culture Change
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Enablement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft