Metadata Management Contracts

Metadata Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 506 540
Rank change year-on-year +48 +34 +111
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 93 89 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.24% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 51 107
10th Percentile £313 £400 £463
25th Percentile £428 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £666 £688 £744
90th Percentile £775 £775 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -39.26% +35.00% -13.04%
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% -5.71%
75th Percentile - £46.18 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -39.02% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,676 37,017 50,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.74% 85.22% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,067 23,615 34,636
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,409 2,525 1,716
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.06 £16.59
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 July 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
England +70 81 £575 - 262
London +50 61 £625 +11.11% 174
Work from Home +48 38 £588 +25.00% 87
UK excluding London +26 22 £410 -39.26% 99
North of England +3 7 £315 -49.60% 31
North West 0 5 £313 -40.38% 14
Wales +8 4 £263 - 1
South East +36 3 £775 +8.77% 20
Midlands - 3 £355 - 24
South West +31 2 £470 -30.37% 11
East of England +24 2 £500 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £300 - 15
Yorkshire +3 1 £375 -53.13% 11
Scotland -1 1 - - 3
North East - 1 £463 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £410 - 8

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (9.68%) Apache
2 6 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 4 (4.30%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.23%) CMS
4 3 (3.23%) Confluence
5 2 (2.15%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) HFM
1 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.08%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (44.09%) Azure
2 27 (29.03%) AWS
3 21 (22.58%) GCP
4 17 (18.28%) Power Platform
5 10 (10.75%) Collibra
6 8 (8.60%) dbt
7 7 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (6.45%) Snowflake
9 5 (5.38%) SaaS
10 4 (4.30%) Alation
11 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
12 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
13 1 (1.08%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (1.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (1.08%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (100.00%) Metadata
2 32 (34.41%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (26.88%) Data Lake
4 17 (18.28%) Power BI
5 13 (13.98%) Big Data
5 13 (13.98%) NoSQL
6 8 (8.60%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.60%) Tableau
7 7 (7.53%) BigQuery
8 6 (6.45%) Delta Lake
8 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.38%) Data Mining
9 5 (5.38%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (5.38%) WebFOCUS
10 4 (4.30%) RDBMS
11 3 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (3.23%) Apache Hive
11 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) ERwin
2 9 (9.68%) ER Studio
3 5 (5.38%) JIRA
4 3 (3.23%) Git
4 3 (3.23%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.08%) Postman
General
1 30 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.35%) Finance
3 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.68%) Banking
4 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.38%) Retail
7 4 (4.30%) Police
8 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Front Office
9 1 (1.08%) Local Government
9 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Publishing
9 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) Architect
2 15 (16.13%) Analyst
3 14 (15.05%) Data Architect
4 13 (13.98%) Data Modeller
5 10 (10.75%) Data Engineer
6 9 (9.68%) Lead
7 8 (8.60%) Data Analyst
8 6 (6.45%) Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.38%) Senior
9 5 (5.38%) SQL Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) Data Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) Data Manager
10 4 (4.30%) GCP Architect
10 4 (4.30%) GCP Data Architect
10 4 (4.30%) Governance Analyst
11 3 (3.23%) Data Governance Analyst
11 3 (3.23%) Data Governance Manager
11 3 (3.23%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.53%) Kafka
2 3 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.15%) PySpark
4 1 (1.08%) ADO
4 1 (1.08%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.08%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.08%) JDBC
4 1 (1.08%) ODBC
4 1 (1.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.60%) Data Fabric
3 5 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.23%) NHS
4 3 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.15%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Clustering
6 1 (1.08%) Derivative
6 1 (1.08%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.08%) Equities
6 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.08%) Life Science
6 1 (1.08%) LIMS
6 1 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Linux
1 2 (2.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (69.89%) Data Governance
2 55 (59.14%) Data Modelling
3 32 (34.41%) Analytics
3 32 (34.41%) Data Management
4 28 (30.11%) Data Architecture
5 27 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (29.03%) Data Lineage
6 23 (24.73%) ETL
7 21 (22.58%) Data Integration
8 20 (21.51%) Data Engineering
9 17 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (17.20%) Data Security
10 16 (17.20%) Data Strategy
11 15 (16.13%) Data Science
11 15 (16.13%) DevOps
11 15 (16.13%) Logical Data Model
11 15 (16.13%) Physical Data Model
11 15 (16.13%) Visualisation
12 13 (13.98%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.94%) SQL
2 21 (22.58%) Python
3 7 (7.53%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.30%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.15%) C++
5 2 (2.15%) Java
5 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.15%) R
5 2 (2.15%) Scala
6 1 (1.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (8.60%) Azure Certification
1 8 (8.60%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.38%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.30%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (38.71%) Data Quality
2 16 (17.20%) GDPR
3 7 (7.53%) QA
4 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (3.23%) Solvency II
6 2 (2.15%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.08%) Basel III
7 1 (1.08%) GxP
7 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.13%) Informatica
3 13 (13.98%) Databricks
4 9 (9.68%) Google
5 7 (7.53%) Oracle
6 5 (5.38%) Talend
7 4 (4.30%) SAP
7 4 (4.30%) Sparx
8 3 (3.23%) Duck Creek
8 3 (3.23%) Guidewire
9 2 (2.15%) Cloudera
9 2 (2.15%) OpenText
10 1 (1.08%) Adobe
10 1 (1.08%) Hyperion
10 1 (1.08%) IBM
10 1 (1.08%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.08%) Teradata