Metadata Contracts

Metadata
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 322 340
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -20
Contract jobs citing Metadata 303 447 698
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.75% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.15% 4.14% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 301 468
10th Percentile £388 £406 £359
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £555
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% -3.48%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £688
90th Percentile £925 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 6
10th Percentile £13.50 £24.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.37 - £29.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -45.10% +59.38%
75th Percentile £45.57 £64.13 £72.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £36.25 £14.55
% change year-on-year +11.03% +149.14% -66.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,306 10,806 17,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.77% 18.02% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,191 7,697 12,774
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £542
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.41% +8.45%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.50% +2.56% +10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 184 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%
75th Percentile £57.61 £71.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +15 263 £606 +10.23% 87
London +39 149 £680 +8.80% 48
UK excluding London +25 120 £575 +15.00% 40
Work from Home +17 86 £513 -13.14% 42
North of England +22 35 £725 +51.04% 15
Scotland +42 23 £525 -11.02% 1
North West +12 22 £663 +32.50% 7
South West +8 19 £563 +12.50% 6
South East -11 18 £550 +20.88% 8
Midlands +36 15 £588 +23.68% 2
West Midlands +39 13 £600 +26.32% 2
Yorkshire +25 12 £800 +66.56% 6
East of England +13 10 £410 -30.21% 5
East Midlands +22 2 £400 -23.81%
North East +20 2 - - 2
Wales +14 1 - - 3

Metadata
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 36 (11.88%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.64%) Confluence
3 8 (2.64%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (2.31%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.99%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.99%) CMS
7 2 (0.66%) Apache
8 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.61%) MS Visio
3 12 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.99%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (8.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.65%) Relativity
3 4 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.66%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.33%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 40 (13.20%) Collibra
1 40 (13.20%) Power Platform
2 37 (12.21%) Azure
3 23 (7.59%) AWS
3 23 (7.59%) GCP
4 19 (6.27%) GitHub
5 11 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (3.63%) Power Automate
6 10 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (3.30%) PowerApps
7 9 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.98%) Serverless
9 6 (1.98%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.65%) Alation
11 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.32%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.65%) WebEx
2 4 (1.32%) Intranet
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.15%) NoSQL
2 45 (14.85%) Data Vault
3 44 (14.52%) Metadata Repository
4 40 (13.20%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (12.21%) Power BI
5 37 (12.21%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.61%) Oracle Database
7 16 (5.28%) Big Data
7 16 (5.28%) Data Lake
8 15 (4.95%) BigQuery
9 14 (4.62%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (2.97%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.64%) Pentaho
13 8 (2.64%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.64%) QlikView
14 7 (2.31%) PowerPivot
15 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 15 (4.95%) ERwin
2 12 (3.96%) JIRA
2 12 (3.96%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (1.98%) Eclipse
3 6 (1.98%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.32%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.66%) Git
5 2 (0.66%) kappa
6 1 (0.33%) GCC
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) RStudio
General
1 85 (28.05%) Finance
2 68 (22.44%) Social Skills
3 67 (22.11%) Public Sector
4 49 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (12.87%) Manufacturing
6 32 (10.56%) Marketing
7 31 (10.23%) Electronics
7 31 (10.23%) Telecoms
8 26 (8.58%) Publishing
9 22 (7.26%) Banking
10 17 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 14 (4.62%) Retail
12 11 (3.63%) Legal
13 6 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.98%) Law
14 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.99%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 100 (33.00%) Architect
2 86 (28.38%) Data Architect
3 37 (12.21%) Analyst
4 31 (10.23%) Data Analyst
5 27 (8.91%) Data Engineer
6 23 (7.59%) Chief Architect
6 23 (7.59%) Chief Data Architect
6 23 (7.59%) Senior
7 19 (6.27%) Integration Engineer
8 18 (5.94%) Developer
8 18 (5.94%) Enterprise Architect
8 18 (5.94%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 14 (4.62%) Consultant
9 14 (4.62%) Governance Analyst
10 12 (3.96%) Data Manager
11 10 (3.30%) Lead
12 9 (2.97%) Business Analyst
12 9 (2.97%) Data Modeller
12 9 (2.97%) Head of Architecture
12 9 (2.97%) Head of Data Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.63%) CSS
1 11 (3.63%) HTML
2 5 (1.65%) .NET
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (0.99%) Middleware
4 3 (0.99%) PySpark
4 3 (0.99%) SPFx
5 2 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.66%) JDBC
5 2 (0.66%) jQuery
5 2 (0.66%) Kafka
5 2 (0.66%) Node.js
5 2 (0.66%) ODBC
5 2 (0.66%) REST
6 1 (0.33%) CAML
6 1 (0.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.33%) LDAP
6 1 (0.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.33%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.20%) Reference Data
2 21 (6.93%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.28%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.96%) Wiki
6 10 (3.30%) Taxonomies
7 8 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.65%) CMDB
8 5 (1.65%) Life Science
9 4 (1.32%) Derivative
9 4 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.99%) Lidar
10 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.65%) Linux
1 5 (1.65%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.33%) CentOS
3 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (48.84%) Data Governance
2 134 (44.22%) Data Modelling
3 99 (32.67%) Metadata Management
4 95 (31.35%) Data Architecture
5 90 (29.70%) Data Management
6 84 (27.72%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (22.11%) Data Strategy
8 65 (21.45%) Data Lineage
9 53 (17.49%) Data Integration
10 50 (16.50%) ETL
11 42 (13.86%) UML
12 41 (13.53%) Data Design
13 39 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (12.54%) Analytics
14 38 (12.54%) Data Analysis
15 36 (11.88%) Programme Management
16 31 (10.23%) Digital Marketing
17 28 (9.24%) Visualisation
18 26 (8.58%) Agile
18 26 (8.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 79 (26.07%) SQL
2 36 (11.88%) Python
3 19 (6.27%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.61%) PL/SQL
4 17 (5.61%) T-SQL
5 15 (4.95%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.98%) Groovy
6 6 (1.98%) Java
7 5 (1.65%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.32%) Go
8 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.99%) R
10 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 57 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 51 (16.83%) Degree
4 13 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (22.11%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.90%) GDPR
3 9 (2.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (1.98%) Good Clinical Practice
4 6 (1.98%) GxP
4 6 (1.98%) QA
5 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.66%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.66%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.97%) Terraform
2 5 (1.65%) EnCase
3 4 (1.32%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 42 (13.86%) SAP
2 40 (13.20%) Sparx
3 35 (11.55%) Oracle
4 30 (9.90%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.59%) Informatica
6 15 (4.95%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.29%) Databricks
8 8 (2.64%) Google
9 7 (2.31%) VMware
10 6 (1.98%) Remedy
10 6 (1.98%) Talend
11 5 (1.65%) IBM
11 5 (1.65%) Nuix
11 5 (1.65%) Okta
11 5 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.65%) Symantec
11 5 (1.65%) Varonis
12 4 (1.32%) Splunk
13 3 (0.99%) ESRI
14 2 (0.66%) Sage