Metadata Contracts

Metadata
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 380 392
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -75
Contract jobs citing Metadata 191 280 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.56% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.78% 3.29% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 195 365
10th Percentile £408 £413 £400
25th Percentile £469 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £744 £729 £700
90th Percentile £913 £775 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £545 £540
% change year-on-year -10.55% +0.93% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 8
10th Percentile £20.08 £11.77 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.61 £20.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £46.09 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.30% -27.70% +146.14%
75th Percentile £48.18 £60.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - £72.00 £76.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.18 £46.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year +4.74% +240.74% -45.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Metadata 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 6,866 8,516 16,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 16.98% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,752 5,952 11,999
10th Percentile £350 £363 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +6.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £651
90th Percentile £800 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 160 166
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.84 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.88 £30.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.47 £53.50 £44.84
Median % change year-on-year -35.58% +19.31% +63.05%
75th Percentile £59.34 £73.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.25 £78.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +50.00% +27.64%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 9 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 9 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

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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 within the UK over the 6 months to 9 September 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 +8 168 £550 -4.35% 71
London -9 110 £625 +4.17% 38
UK excluding London +40 60 £488 -10.55% 38
Work from Home +28 56 £500 -13.04% 48
South East +38 20 £675 +45.95% 6
South West +17 18 £488 -2.50% 2
Scotland +29 12 £683 +18.18% 8
North of England +20 8 £438 -32.69% 12
North West +19 6 £419 -23.86% 5
Midlands +8 3 - - 5
Yorkshire +15 2 £800 -11.11% 5
West Midlands +6 2 - - 3
East of England +12 1 £365 -18.89% 3
East Midlands -2 1 - - 2

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 10 (5.24%) Confluence
2 7 (3.66%) CMS
3 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.52%) Drupal
5 1 (0.52%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.52%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Relativity
1 4 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.57%) MIS ActiveH
2 3 (1.57%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.57%) OPENHousing
2 3 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.05%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.52%) HFM
4 1 (0.52%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.75%) Power Platform
2 28 (14.66%) Azure
3 17 (8.90%) Collibra
4 14 (7.33%) AWS
5 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (4.19%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.19%) PowerApps
7 6 (3.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.14%) GCP
8 5 (2.62%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.57%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.57%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.57%) GitHub
9 3 (1.57%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.05%) Serverless
10 2 (1.05%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) WebEx
2 3 (1.57%) Firewall
2 3 (1.57%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (1.05%) Internet
4 1 (0.52%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.52%) Intranet
4 1 (0.52%) MPLS
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) VPLS
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.28%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (16.75%) Power BI
3 25 (13.09%) SQL Server
4 22 (11.52%) Metadata Repository
5 19 (9.95%) NoSQL
6 17 (8.90%) Data Vault
7 12 (6.28%) Big Data
8 11 (5.76%) Data Lake
9 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (2.62%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.09%) Delta Lake
13 4 (2.09%) EDRMS
14 3 (1.57%) Data Mart
14 3 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 3 (1.57%) PowerCenter
14 3 (1.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) JIRA
2 7 (3.66%) ERwin
3 4 (2.09%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.09%) ER Studio
4 3 (1.57%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.57%) GitLab
4 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.52%) GCC
5 1 (0.52%) Git
5 1 (0.52%) RStudio
General
1 52 (27.23%) Social Skills
2 44 (23.04%) Finance
3 29 (15.18%) Public Sector
4 25 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.52%) Banking
6 12 (6.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.28%) Marketing
7 10 (5.24%) Manufacturing
7 10 (5.24%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.71%) Electronics
9 8 (4.19%) Legal
10 7 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (3.66%) Publishing
11 4 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.09%) Retail
12 3 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.57%) Local Government
12 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.57%) Public Speaking
13 2 (1.05%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 54 (28.27%) Architect
2 42 (21.99%) Data Architect
3 26 (13.61%) Analyst
4 20 (10.47%) Data Analyst
5 17 (8.90%) Developer
5 17 (8.90%) Senior
6 14 (7.33%) Data Engineer
7 13 (6.81%) Governance Analyst
8 11 (5.76%) Chief Architect
8 11 (5.76%) Chief Data Architect
8 11 (5.76%) Consultant
9 10 (5.24%) Head of Architecture
9 10 (5.24%) Head of Data Architecture
9 10 (5.24%) Lead
10 9 (4.71%) Data Modeller
11 8 (4.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (4.19%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (4.19%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 8 (4.19%) Governance Manager
11 8 (4.19%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.09%) PyQt
1 4 (2.09%) PySide
2 3 (1.57%) .NET
2 3 (1.57%) REST
2 3 (1.57%) YAML
3 2 (1.05%) CSS
3 2 (1.05%) HTML
3 2 (1.05%) JSON
3 2 (1.05%) Kafka
3 2 (1.05%) PySpark
3 2 (1.05%) SOAP
4 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.52%) Flask
4 1 (0.52%) LangChain
4 1 (0.52%) LESS
4 1 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.52%) Sass
4 1 (0.52%) Semantic HTML
4 1 (0.52%) WCF
4 1 (0.52%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.99%) Reference Data
2 18 (9.42%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.76%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.57%) Wiki
7 2 (1.05%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.05%) Genomics
7 2 (1.05%) Life Science
7 2 (1.05%) PlayStation
7 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.52%) Blog
8 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.66%) Windows
2 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.05%) Linux
3 2 (1.05%) Unix
3 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (42.93%) Data Governance
2 73 (38.22%) Data Modelling
3 67 (35.08%) Data Management
4 63 (32.98%) Metadata Management
5 57 (29.84%) Business Intelligence
6 50 (26.18%) Data Architecture
7 45 (23.56%) Analytics
8 32 (16.75%) Data Analysis
9 26 (13.61%) Data Strategy
10 25 (13.09%) Data Integration
10 25 (13.09%) ETL
11 23 (12.04%) Agile
11 23 (12.04%) Data Lineage
11 23 (12.04%) Programme Management
12 22 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (11.52%) Visualisation
13 21 (10.99%) Data Design
13 21 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (9.95%) Risk Management
15 17 (8.90%) UML
Programming Languages
1 40 (20.94%) SQL
2 29 (15.18%) Python
3 8 (4.19%) MATLAB
4 7 (3.66%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.14%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.62%) Bash
7 4 (2.09%) R
8 3 (1.57%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.05%) VBA
10 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.52%) C#
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (19.37%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.47%) Degree
4 5 (2.62%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (30.89%) Data Quality
2 26 (13.61%) QA
3 13 (6.81%) GDPR
4 9 (4.71%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.05%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.05%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.05%) WCAG
7 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.52%) GMP
System Software
1 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.09%) Docker
3 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (2.09%) EnCase
2 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.57%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.57%) Puppet
3 3 (1.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.42%) Databricks
3 15 (7.85%) SAP
4 8 (4.19%) Oracle
4 8 (4.19%) Snow
4 8 (4.19%) Sparx
5 7 (3.66%) Informatica
5 7 (3.66%) Nexthink
5 7 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.09%) Nuix
6 4 (2.09%) Remedy
7 3 (1.57%) NEC
7 3 (1.57%) Northgate
7 3 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.05%) ESRI
8 2 (1.05%) Google
8 2 (1.05%) Sony
8 2 (1.05%) Talend
9 1 (0.52%) IBM