Metadata Management Contracts

Metadata Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 492 527 566
Rank change year-on-year +35 +39 -23
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 95 168 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.33% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 132 183
10th Percentile £400 £450 £430
25th Percentile £408 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -20.69%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £713
90th Percentile £786 £913 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% -20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £19.89 £62.85 -
25th Percentile £29.06 £64.88 £65.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% -5.71% +75.00%
75th Percentile £46.18 - £75.00
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 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

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 29 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Top 14 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 29 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
England +40 85 £550 - 44
London +53 50 £488 -25.00% 28
Work from Home +71 35 £470 -24.80% 23
UK excluding London +22 34 £675 +35.00% 16
North of England +29 14 £800 +64.00% 6
North West +20 10 £525 +7.69% 2
South West +1 8 £675 +35.00% 3
South East -6 7 £713 +56.59% 2
Yorkshire +16 4 £800 +23.04% 2
Midlands +16 2 £573 +20.53% 1
West Midlands +13 2 £573 +20.53% 1
Scotland +28 1 £475 -40.63% 1
Wales +17 1 - - 1
East of England +6 1 - - 3

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 11 (11.58%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.42%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (7.37%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.11%) Apache
4 2 (2.11%) Confluence
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.05%) CMS
5 1 (1.05%) IIS
5 1 (1.05%) nginx
5 1 (1.05%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.26%) Collibra
2 14 (14.74%) Azure
2 14 (14.74%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.42%) AWS
4 6 (6.32%) GCP
5 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (4.21%) Alation
7 3 (3.16%) Veeva
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.11%) Serverless
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.05%) Cloudinary
9 1 (1.05%) SaaS
9 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Firewall
1 1 (1.05%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (100.00%) Metadata
2 30 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (21.05%) SQL Server
4 13 (13.68%) Power BI
5 10 (10.53%) NoSQL
6 9 (9.47%) Big Data
6 9 (9.47%) Relational Database
7 8 (8.42%) Data Lake
7 8 (8.42%) Metadata Repository
7 8 (8.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.37%) PowerPivot
9 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Power View
9 6 (6.32%) RDBMS
10 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.16%) EDMS
11 3 (3.16%) OLAP
11 3 (3.16%) OLTP
12 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
12 2 (2.11%) Tableau
13 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.16%) ERwin
1 3 (3.16%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.11%) kappa
3 1 (1.05%) Git
General
1 26 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.63%) Finance
5 8 (8.42%) Banking
6 7 (7.37%) Legal
7 6 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (6.32%) Publishing
8 5 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.16%) Public Speaking
10 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.05%) Law
11 1 (1.05%) Marketing
11 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (31.58%) Architect
2 24 (25.26%) Data Architect
3 14 (14.74%) Integration Engineer
4 7 (7.37%) Analyst
4 7 (7.37%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.37%) SharePoint Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Data Modeller
6 5 (5.26%) Consultant
7 4 (4.21%) Data Consultant
7 4 (4.21%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Data Governance Consultant
8 3 (3.16%) Governance Analyst
8 3 (3.16%) Governance Consultant
8 3 (3.16%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Technical Project Manager
8 3 (3.16%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.42%) CSS
1 8 (8.42%) HTML
2 1 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.05%) CAML
2 1 (1.05%) Flask
2 1 (1.05%) Kafka
2 1 (1.05%) LDAP
2 1 (1.05%) REST
2 1 (1.05%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.37%) Taxonomies
3 5 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Life Science
5 2 (2.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) CentOS
2 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
2 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (73.68%) Data Governance
2 44 (46.32%) Data Modelling
3 43 (45.26%) Data Management
4 37 (38.95%) Data Lineage
5 29 (30.53%) Data Architecture
6 27 (28.42%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (28.42%) ETL
7 20 (21.05%) Data Analysis
8 18 (18.95%) Data Strategy
9 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (16.84%) Data Security
11 15 (15.79%) Data Integration
11 15 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (14.74%) Analytics
13 13 (13.68%) Data Privacy
14 12 (12.63%) Information Management
14 12 (12.63%) Project Management
14 12 (12.63%) Quality Management
15 11 (11.58%) Asset Management
15 11 (11.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.42%) SQL
2 10 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 9 (9.47%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.26%) Python
5 4 (4.21%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.05%) Bash
7 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.05%) PHP
7 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.26%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 9 (9.47%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.37%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.05%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) Nexthink
2 7 (7.37%) Remedy
2 7 (7.37%) VMware
3 6 (6.32%) Informatica
4 5 (5.26%) Oracle
4 5 (5.26%) Snow
5 4 (4.21%) Okta
5 4 (4.21%) SAP
5 4 (4.21%) Symantec
5 4 (4.21%) Talend
5 4 (4.21%) Varonis
6 3 (3.16%) IBM
6 3 (3.16%) Sparx
7 2 (2.11%) Databricks
7 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.05%) Sybase