Metadata Contracts in the UK excluding London

Metadata
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 301 375
Rank change year-on-year +24 +74 -75
Contract jobs citing Metadata 114 157 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.41% 4.27% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 113 98
10th Percentile £368 £401 £305
25th Percentile £475 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +1.29%
75th Percentile £705 £600 £653
90th Percentile £800 £720 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 1
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.00 -
25th Percentile £13.75 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £20.97 £36.25 £14.55
Median % change year-on-year -42.15% +149.14% -66.55%
75th Percentile £44.53 £64.50 -
90th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% -46.97% +65.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,584 3,676 5,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.57% 15.38% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,646 3,885
10th Percentile £324 £339 £326
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £580
90th Percentile £676 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 115 134
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £32.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +44.33%
75th Percentile £59.00 £66.28 £55.81
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.50 £68.96
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%

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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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +18 31 £725 +51.04% 11
Scotland +48 22 £550 -6.78% 3
North West +10 21 £663 +32.50% 6
South East -11 19 £550 +20.88% 9
South West +6 17 £625 +25.00% 6
Midlands +37 15 £588 +23.68% 11
West Midlands +33 13 £600 +26.32% 10
Yorkshire +25 10 £800 +66.56% 5
East of England +10 10 £410 -8.89% 7
East Midlands +23 2 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales +13 1 - - 2
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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 15 (13.16%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.14%) Confluence
2 7 (6.14%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (6.14%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.51%) CMS
4 3 (2.63%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.88%) Drupal
Applications
1 10 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.63%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 8 (7.02%) GCP
3 7 (6.14%) Azure
3 7 (6.14%) GitHub
4 6 (5.26%) Collibra
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.63%) AWS
7 3 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.63%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.63%) Veeva
8 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.75%) Serverless
8 2 (1.75%) ShareGate
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.88%) dbt
9 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (14.04%) Oracle Database
3 14 (12.28%) Metadata Repository
4 11 (9.65%) SQL Server
5 10 (8.77%) Power BI
6 8 (7.02%) BigQuery
7 7 (6.14%) PowerPivot
7 7 (6.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (5.26%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Power View
9 5 (4.39%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (4.39%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.51%) Big Data
10 4 (3.51%) GIS
10 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.51%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (3.51%) Oracle8/8i Database
11 3 (2.63%) EDMS
11 3 (2.63%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Oracle APEX
2 6 (5.26%) Eclipse
2 6 (5.26%) JIRA
2 6 (5.26%) PyCharm
3 5 (4.39%) ERwin
4 2 (1.75%) kappa
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) RStudio
General
1 33 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.44%) Public Sector
3 21 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.79%) Finance
5 11 (9.65%) Manufacturing
5 11 (9.65%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (9.65%) Publishing
6 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.39%) Law
6 5 (4.39%) Retail
7 4 (3.51%) Electronics
7 4 (3.51%) Marketing
7 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.63%) Legal
8 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.75%) Automotive
10 1 (0.88%) Banking
10 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (28.95%) Architect
2 28 (24.56%) Data Architect
3 15 (13.16%) Senior
4 11 (9.65%) Analyst
5 10 (8.77%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Data Analyst
7 8 (7.02%) Data Manager
8 6 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.26%) Developer
8 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 6 (5.26%) SharePoint Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Administrator
9 4 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) Data Product Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) DBA
9 4 (3.51%) Product Business Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) Product Owner
9 4 (3.51%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.77%) CSS
1 10 (8.77%) HTML
2 4 (3.51%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (1.75%) jQuery
3 2 (1.75%) PySpark
3 2 (1.75%) SPFx
4 1 (0.88%) .NET
4 1 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.88%) HTML5
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) Kafka
4 1 (0.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (0.88%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.14%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.39%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.39%) Taxonomies
4 5 (4.39%) Wiki
5 3 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.63%) Lidar
5 3 (2.63%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) CMDB
6 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.75%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) FMCG
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.88%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.88%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Unix
2 4 (3.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.96%) Data Governance
2 38 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 38 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 34 (29.82%) Data Management
4 28 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (24.56%) Data Architecture
5 25 (21.93%) Data Strategy
6 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (16.67%) Migration
8 16 (14.04%) Data Analysis
8 16 (14.04%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (13.16%) Data Migration
10 14 (12.28%) Analytics
11 12 (10.53%) Data Engineering
11 12 (10.53%) SQL Optimisation
12 11 (9.65%) Computer Science
12 11 (9.65%) ETL
12 11 (9.65%) Roadmaps
13 10 (8.77%) Agile
13 10 (8.77%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.95%) SQL
2 16 (14.04%) Python
3 14 (12.28%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.40%) PL/SQL
5 10 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.26%) Groovy
6 6 (5.26%) Java
7 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) Bash
8 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (25.44%) Degree
2 26 (22.81%) Security Cleared
3 15 (13.16%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 15 (13.16%) GDPR
3 6 (5.26%) Good Clinical Practice
3 6 (5.26%) GxP
4 4 (3.51%) QA
5 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.75%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.75%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.51%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Data Guard
1 4 (3.51%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) Oracle
2 9 (7.89%) SAP
3 7 (6.14%) Sparx
3 7 (6.14%) VMware
4 6 (5.26%) Remedy
5 4 (3.51%) Informatica
5 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.63%) ESRI
6 3 (2.63%) Google
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.75%) Databricks
8 1 (0.88%) Cadence
8 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce