Metadata Contracts in the UK excluding London

Metadata
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 245 284 305
Rank change year-on-year +39 +21 +56
Contract jobs citing Metadata 91 116 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.56% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.51% 4.47% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 71 114
10th Percentile £107 £375 £402
25th Percentile £270 £471 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £545 £693 £600
90th Percentile £662 £800 £731
UK median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 13
10th Percentile £22.63 £13.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £20.97 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.14% -42.15% +149.14%
75th Percentile £56.13 £44.53 £64.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.18 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% -46.97%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +14 26 £525 -27.59% 23
South East +49 21 £478 -13.18% 47
North West +13 17 £545 -17.74% 11
East of England +32 12 £320 -21.97% 7
Midlands +19 12 £107 -81.79% 13
West Midlands +13 12 £107 -82.17% 11
South West +36 9 £550 -2.22% 11
Wales +6 6 £224 - 3
North East - 6 £543 - 7
Scotland -5 5 £529 +0.76% 9
Yorkshire +1 3 £375 -53.10% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 -
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UK

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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 6 (6.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.20%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.27%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) GCP
3 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
4 9 (9.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (8.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (6.59%) Serverless
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.30%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.30%) PaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.20%) dbt
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.10%) GitHub
10 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.37%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (14.29%) Big Data
3 12 (13.19%) Metadata Repository
4 11 (12.09%) Power BI
4 11 (12.09%) Tableau
5 10 (10.99%) Data Lake
5 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
6 7 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 6 (6.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.40%) Data Mining
8 4 (4.40%) Essbase
8 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.30%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (2.20%) Apache Hive
10 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.20%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) ERwin
2 4 (4.40%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (3.30%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.30%) Git
3 3 (3.30%) GitLab
4 2 (2.20%) JIRA
5 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.10%) Postman
5 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.29%) Finance
3 13 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.20%) Automotive
7 2 (2.20%) Billing
7 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.20%) Legal
7 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Electronics
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Architect
2 16 (17.58%) Data Architect
2 16 (17.58%) Data Engineer
3 13 (14.29%) Lead
4 9 (9.89%) Analyst
4 9 (9.89%) Audio Visual Technician
4 9 (9.89%) Data Modeller
4 9 (9.89%) Senior
5 6 (6.59%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) Essbase Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Governance Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Governance Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Architect
9 2 (2.20%) Data Manager
9 2 (2.20%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) PySpark
2 5 (5.49%) Kafka
3 4 (4.40%) MDX
4 3 (3.30%) Spring
5 2 (2.20%) ADO
5 2 (2.20%) React
5 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.10%) NumPy
6 1 (1.10%) Pandas
6 1 (1.10%) Swagger
6 1 (1.10%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.89%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.59%) Reference Data
4 5 (5.49%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.30%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.20%) Data Fabric
7 2 (2.20%) NHS
7 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.20%) Replication
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.10%) IoT
8 1 (1.10%) Life Science
8 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Unix
2 1 (1.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 34 (37.36%) Metadata Management
3 26 (28.57%) Analytics
3 26 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 24 (26.37%) Data Architecture
4 24 (26.37%) Data Management
5 23 (25.27%) Data Engineering
5 23 (25.27%) ETL
6 22 (24.18%) Data Governance
7 21 (23.08%) Data Science
8 20 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (18.68%) Agile
10 16 (17.58%) Migration
10 16 (17.58%) Visualisation
11 15 (16.48%) Artificial Intelligence
12 14 (15.38%) Data Integration
13 13 (14.29%) Computer Science
13 13 (14.29%) Data Security
14 11 (12.09%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (12.09%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.66%) SQL
2 17 (18.68%) Python
3 6 (6.59%) Java
4 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.20%) Scala
4 2 (2.20%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.10%) C#
5 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.10%) Perl
5 1 (1.10%) R
5 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (19.78%) Degree
2 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (6.59%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.10%) CITP
8 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.27%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.69%) GDPR
3 4 (4.40%) QA
4 2 (2.20%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.10%) GMP
5 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.68%) Databricks
3 10 (10.99%) SAP
4 8 (8.79%) Google
4 8 (8.79%) Oracle
5 4 (4.40%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.30%) Talend
7 2 (2.20%) Autodesk
7 2 (2.20%) IBM
7 2 (2.20%) Informatica
7 2 (2.20%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.10%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.10%) Adobe
8 1 (1.10%) Ariba
8 1 (1.10%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) Remedy
8 1 (1.10%) Sparx
8 1 (1.10%) StreamSets