Metadata Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 350 383
Rank change year-on-year +38 +33 +81
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 31 36 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.21% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 57
10th Percentile £215 £475 £404
25th Percentile £279 £523 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £540 £794 £575
90th Percentile £685 £832 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £490 £575
% change year-on-year +7.14% -14.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £19.89 £62.85
25th Percentile £78.75 £29.06 £64.88
Median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £46.18 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,573 17,298 21,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.48% 84.45% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,212 10,313 14,528
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,056 1,281
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.44
Median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.26 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in the UK excluding London

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +15 9 £504 -34.98% 5
South East +45 6 £638 +10.39% 23
East of England +28 6 £500 - 1
North West +15 6 £545 +3.81% 1
Wales +9 6 £224 - 4
South West +40 2 £470 -30.37% 3
Yorkshire +12 2 £375 -53.10% 4
Midlands +18 1 £375 -34.50% 2
West Midlands +17 1 £375 -34.50% 2
Scotland +8 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £463 -
Metadata Management
UK

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) GCP
2 7 (22.58%) Power Platform
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.68%) PaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
5 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.23%) Apigee
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (100.00%) Metadata
2 7 (22.58%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (22.58%) Metadata Repository
2 7 (22.58%) Power BI
3 5 (16.13%) Big Data
3 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
4 4 (12.90%) Data Mining
4 4 (12.90%) Essbase
5 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.68%) Tableau
6 2 (6.45%) Apache Hive
6 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.45%) HBase
6 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) ERwin
2 1 (3.23%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Data Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Lead
4 4 (12.90%) Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Essbase Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Consultant
5 3 (9.68%) Data Modeller
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Report Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Junior
7 1 (3.23%) Junior Technical Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Quality Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) MDX
2 2 (6.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.13%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (12.90%) Reference Data
4 2 (6.45%) Data Fabric
4 2 (6.45%) NHS
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
5 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Data Modelling
2 15 (48.39%) Analytics
3 11 (35.48%) Data Governance
4 10 (32.26%) Data Architecture
4 10 (32.26%) Data Science
4 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (29.03%) Data Integration
6 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
6 8 (25.81%) Data Engineering
6 8 (25.81%) Visualisation
7 7 (22.58%) Data Strategy
7 7 (22.58%) ETL
7 7 (22.58%) Logical Data Model
8 6 (19.35%) Data Management
8 6 (19.35%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (19.35%) DevOps
9 5 (16.13%) Data Analytics
10 4 (12.90%) Financial Modelling
10 4 (12.90%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) Perl
4 1 (3.23%) R
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Azure Certification
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.68%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Flume
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Databricks
2 7 (22.58%) Google
3 6 (19.35%) Oracle
4 4 (12.90%) Cloudera
5 2 (6.45%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (6.45%) SAP
6 1 (3.23%) Adobe
6 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
6 1 (3.23%) IBM
6 1 (3.23%) Informatica
6 1 (3.23%) Remedy
6 1 (3.23%) StreamSets
6 1 (3.23%) Talend