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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 369 390
Rank change year-on-year +37 +21 +86
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 23 32 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 36
10th Percentile £269 £473 £438
25th Percentile £311 £588 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -41.85% +35.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £476 £800 £556
90th Percentile £711 £844 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - £19.89 £62.85
25th Percentile - £29.06 £64.88
Median hourly rate - £40.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.02% -
75th Percentile - £46.18 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -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 12,355 17,496 20,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.47% 82.80% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,548 10,267 13,881
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £366 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 2,162 1,257
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.86 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%
75th Percentile £53.94 £61.90 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 0 8 £345 -56.85% 8
North West +8 5 £313 -40.38% 2
Wales +7 4 £263 - 2
South East +41 3 £775 +8.77% 17
Midlands - 3 £355 - 10
South West +38 2 £470 -30.37%
East of England +28 2 £500 -
Yorkshire -5 2 £375 -53.11% 6
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 7
Scotland +8 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £410 - 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 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
1 8 (34.78%) Power Platform
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
4 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (100.00%) Metadata
2 8 (34.78%) Power BI
3 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
4 4 (17.39%) Big Data
4 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (17.39%) Metadata Repository
4 4 (17.39%) Tableau
5 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
5 3 (13.04%) WebFOCUS
6 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
7 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 1 (4.35%) HBase
7 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.35%) Pentaho
7 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) ERwin
2 1 (4.35%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Data Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Data Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modeller
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 3 (13.04%) SQL Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Report Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Architect
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) SharePoint Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Data Modelling
2 12 (52.17%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (52.17%) Data Governance
3 10 (43.48%) Analytics
4 8 (34.78%) Data Analysis
5 6 (26.09%) Data Architecture
5 6 (26.09%) Visualisation
6 5 (21.74%) Data Management
6 5 (21.74%) ETL
7 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Data Integration
7 4 (17.39%) Data Transformation
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.04%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (13.04%) Data Analytics
8 3 (13.04%) DevOps
8 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (13.04%) Logical Data Model
8 3 (13.04%) Physical Data Model
8 3 (13.04%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) T-SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Azure Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.35%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
3 3 (13.04%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) Cloudera
4 2 (8.70%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (8.70%) OpenText
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) Adobe
5 1 (4.35%) IBM
5 1 (4.35%) Informatica
5 1 (4.35%) Talend