Metadata Contracts in the Thames Valley

Metadata
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata 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 93 138 129
Rank change year-on-year +45 -9 +26
Contract jobs citing Metadata 9 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.26% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 2.05% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 12
10th Percentile £445 - -
25th Percentile £466 - £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% +26.76%
75th Percentile £509 - £494
90th Percentile £524 - £550
South East median daily rate £478 £550 £455
% change year-on-year -13.18% +20.88% -19.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.99 -
South East median hourly rate - £19.99 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the Thames Valley

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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 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
Berkshire +31 7 £503 +4.69% 12
Oxfordshire - 2 £425 - 4
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South East

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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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (55.56%) Big Data
2 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) HBase
3 1 (11.11%) HDInsight
3 1 (11.11%) Impala
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) ERwin
1 4 (44.44%) PowerDesigner
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Modeller
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Quality Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Data Migration
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
2 4 (44.44%) Data Cleansing
2 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Data Science
2 4 (44.44%) Data Security
2 4 (44.44%) Physical Data Model
3 3 (33.33%) Data Management
3 3 (33.33%) Metadata Management
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Conceptual Models
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Validation
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Flume
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) StreamSets
3 1 (11.11%) Talend