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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 519 574
Rank change year-on-year +30 +55 -41
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 102 191 299
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.32% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.35% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 141 206
10th Percentile - £425 £425
25th Percentile £400 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -20.69%
75th Percentile £721 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £800 £784
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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% +551.16%
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 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +46 91 £538 -2.27% 28
London +65 51 £438 -32.69% 15
UK excluding London +22 41 £575 +15.00% 15
Work from Home +65 36 £475 -24.00% 11
North of England +32 15 £775 +63.11% 7
North West +14 10 £525 +7.69% 3
South West +14 9 £613 +22.50% 3
South East 0 8 £578 +28.33% 2
Yorkshire +25 5 £800 +99.88% 4
Scotland +33 4 £525 -34.38%
West Midlands +35 2 £573 +20.53% 1
Midlands +32 2 £573 +20.53% 1
East of England +14 2 £500 -24.53% 1
Wales +12 1 - - 1

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 14 (13.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.84%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (6.86%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.98%) Apache
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.98%) CMS
5 1 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.57%) Collibra
2 16 (15.69%) Azure
3 13 (12.75%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.84%) AWS
4 8 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.86%) GCP
6 6 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.90%) Alation
7 5 (4.90%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.90%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.94%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.94%) Serverless
9 3 (2.94%) ShareGate
9 3 (2.94%) Veeva
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.98%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.98%) Firewall
1 1 (0.98%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (100.00%) Metadata
2 21 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (15.69%) SQL Server
4 11 (10.78%) Big Data
4 11 (10.78%) NoSQL
5 10 (9.80%) Power BI
6 8 (7.84%) Metadata Repository
6 8 (7.84%) Relational Database
6 8 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (6.86%) Data Lake
7 7 (6.86%) PowerPivot
8 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Power View
8 6 (5.88%) RDBMS
9 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.94%) EDMS
10 3 (2.94%) OLAP
10 3 (2.94%) OLTP
11 2 (1.96%) Tableau
12 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (2.94%) ERwin
2 2 (1.96%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.96%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) kappa
3 1 (0.98%) Git
General
1 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.67%) Finance
3 17 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (7.84%) Banking
6 6 (5.88%) Publishing
7 5 (4.90%) Legal
7 5 (4.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.96%) Marketing
9 2 (1.96%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.96%) Retail
10 1 (0.98%) Electronics
10 1 (0.98%) Law
10 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (32.35%) Architect
2 25 (24.51%) Data Architect
3 19 (18.63%) Integration Engineer
4 8 (7.84%) Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) Data Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) Data Modeller
5 7 (6.86%) SharePoint Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Data Manager
7 4 (3.92%) Administrator
7 4 (3.92%) Consultant
7 4 (3.92%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Senior
8 3 (2.94%) Data Governance Consultant
8 3 (2.94%) Data Integration Engineer
8 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 3 (2.94%) Governance Analyst
8 3 (2.94%) Information Architect
8 3 (2.94%) Lead
8 3 (2.94%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.80%) CSS
1 10 (9.80%) HTML
2 3 (2.94%) SPFx
3 2 (1.96%) jQuery
4 1 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.98%) CAML
4 1 (0.98%) JSON
4 1 (0.98%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.98%) Kafka
4 1 (0.98%) LDAP
4 1 (0.98%) PySpark
4 1 (0.98%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Taxonomies
2 8 (7.84%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.96%) Life Science
6 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.98%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.98%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (0.98%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.98%) CentOS
2 1 (0.98%) Mac OS X
2 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.98%) Unix
2 1 (0.98%) Windows
2 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (68.63%) Data Governance
2 48 (47.06%) Data Management
3 42 (41.18%) Data Modelling
4 39 (38.24%) Data Lineage
5 30 (29.41%) Data Architecture
6 24 (23.53%) Data Analysis
6 24 (23.53%) Data Strategy
6 24 (23.53%) ETL
7 20 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (17.65%) Data Integration
9 16 (15.69%) Analytics
9 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (13.73%) Data Security
11 13 (12.75%) Information Architecture
11 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.76%) Data Privacy
13 11 (10.78%) Agile
13 11 (10.78%) Project Management
14 10 (9.80%) Information Management
14 10 (9.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 29 (28.43%) SQL
2 13 (12.75%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.88%) T-SQL
5 5 (4.90%) Python
6 4 (3.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.98%) Java
7 1 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Degree
2 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (25.49%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.82%) GDPR
3 7 (6.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.98%) GRC
4 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 7 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (0.98%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) Informatica
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Oracle
2 7 (6.86%) VMware
3 6 (5.88%) Remedy
4 5 (4.90%) Okta
4 5 (4.90%) SAP
4 5 (4.90%) Sparx
4 5 (4.90%) Symantec
4 5 (4.90%) Talend
4 5 (4.90%) Varonis
5 4 (3.92%) IBM
6 2 (1.96%) Databricks
6 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.98%) Aprimo
7 1 (0.98%) Cadence
7 1 (0.98%) Google
7 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.98%) Snow