Metadata Repository Contracts in the UK excluding London

Metadata Repository
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Metadata Repository skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Repository over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 389 451
Rank change year-on-year +67 +62 +49
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 12 14 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.068% 0.021%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.59% 0.54% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 5
10th Percentile £193 £585 £484
25th Percentile £213 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £675 £723
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -6.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £388 £688 £740
90th Percentile £485 £743 £743
UK median daily rate £375 £900 £650
% change year-on-year -58.33% +38.46% -10.34%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Metadata Repository 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,017 2,593 3,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.78% 12.55% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 1,829 2,654
10th Percentile £315 £324 £343
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 97 115
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.53
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.20 £32.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.62 £59.00 £66.28
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.98% -31.73% +37.86%

Metadata Repository
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Repository in the UK excluding London

Metadata Repository
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Repository in the UK excluding London

Metadata Repository
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Repository in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Repository in the UK excluding London

Metadata Repository
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 Repository within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 - 6 £413 -
Wales - 5 £213 -
North East - 4 £537 -
Yorkshire - 2 £375 -
Scotland +13 1 - -
Metadata Repository
UK

Metadata Repository
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 (16.67%) Jupyter
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Report Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 9 (75.00%) Analytics
3 8 (66.67%) Metadata Management
4 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (41.67%) Data Architecture
5 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (41.67%) Data Science
6 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (33.33%) Data Analytics
6 4 (33.33%) Data Development
6 4 (33.33%) DevOps
7 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (25.00%) ETL
8 2 (16.67%) Case Management
8 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (16.67%) ERP
8 2 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
8 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Databricks
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Google
4 4 (33.33%) Cloudera
5 2 (16.67%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (16.67%) SAP
6 1 (8.33%) Remedy