Metadata Repository Contracts

Metadata Repository
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 556 691
Rank change year-on-year +55 +135 +88
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 18 44 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.10% 0.037%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.32% 0.60% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 19
10th Percentile £180 £663 £570
25th Percentile £235 £719 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £900 £650
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +38.46% -10.34%
75th Percentile £602 £925 £711
90th Percentile £698 £973 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £270 £675 £723
% change year-on-year -60.00% -6.57% -2.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Metadata Repository
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Repository in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Repository in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Repository over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Repository in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +52 12 £270 -60.00% 3
England +31 11 £550 -38.89% 5
Work from Home +55 10 £270 -64.00% 7
North of England - 6 £413 -
Wales - 5 £213 -
London +9 4 £675 -25.00% 2
North East - 4 £537 -
Yorkshire - 2 £375 -
Scotland +9 1 - -

Metadata Repository
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 3 (16.67%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) GCP
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (27.78%) Amazon S3
4 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
5 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 3 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (16.67%) PaaS
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) Metadata
2 6 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (22.22%) Power BI
5 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.56%) Big Data
6 1 (5.56%) OLAP
6 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Legal
2 1 (5.56%) Publishing
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Report Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Junior
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Junior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Management Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
2 3 (16.67%) PySpark
2 3 (16.67%) Spring
2 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 11 (61.11%) Analytics
2 11 (61.11%) Metadata Management
3 8 (44.44%) Data Engineering
3 8 (44.44%) Data Integration
3 8 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (38.89%) Data Architecture
5 6 (33.33%) Data Development
5 6 (33.33%) Data Science
6 5 (27.78%) Data Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) ETL
7 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 4 (22.22%) DevOps
8 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 3 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
8 3 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Databricks
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) Google
4 5 (27.78%) Cloudera
5 2 (11.11%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (11.11%) Remedy
5 2 (11.11%) SAP
6 1 (5.56%) Sparx