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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 298 316
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 +10
Contract jobs citing Metadata 197 327 507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.74% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.58% 4.49% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 222 345
10th Percentile £236 £385 £400
25th Percentile £410 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £688
90th Percentile £775 £924 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -19.13% +15.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 16
10th Percentile £22.63 £13.70 £19.25
25th Percentile £22.72 £20.49 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.68% +15.00% -43.09%
75th Percentile £56.13 £46.18 £63.94
90th Percentile £82.25 £47.92 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £43.22 £36.25
% change year-on-year -36.36% +19.21% +149.14%

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 5,503 7,278 11,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.93% 16.46% 18.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,816 5,152 8,312
10th Percentile £351 £350 £375
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 157 181
10th Percentile £20.85 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.82 £32.40
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.13 £68.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.80 £39.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -24.08% -28.64% +57.14%

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 2 April 2025.

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 2 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

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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 2 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
England -27 167 £510 -15.00% 299
London -18 90 £625 -5.09% 212
UK excluding London +17 85 £465 -19.13% 105
Work from Home +33 70 £524 -4.77% 148
North of England +12 27 £513 -28.07% 41
South East +46 18 £478 -20.42% 25
North West -1 18 £545 -12.80% 21
East of England +25 11 £318 -22.38% 2
Midlands +17 11 £107 -82.17% 16
West Midlands +12 11 £107 -82.71% 16
Wales +13 7 £236 - 4
South West +22 6 £488 -11.36% 12
North East -2 6 £543 - 5
Scotland -4 5 £529 -3.82% 7
Yorkshire +5 3 £375 -53.10% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 1

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 13 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.57%) SAS
3 6 (3.05%) CMS
3 6 (3.05%) Confluence
4 3 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.02%) Apache
5 2 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.02%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.02%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.02%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.51%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.95%) Azure
2 39 (19.80%) AWS
3 35 (17.77%) GCP
4 25 (12.69%) Power Platform
5 20 (10.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (8.12%) GitHub
7 15 (7.61%) Collibra
8 11 (5.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (5.58%) Serverless
9 10 (5.08%) dbt
10 9 (4.57%) Amazon S3
10 9 (4.57%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.05%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (2.54%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (2.03%) Cloud Run
16 3 (1.52%) Alation
16 3 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) SMS
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (28.93%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (15.74%) Data Lake
3 25 (12.69%) Power BI
4 21 (10.66%) Metadata Repository
5 20 (10.15%) Big Data
6 16 (8.12%) Tableau
7 14 (7.11%) Relational Database
8 13 (6.60%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.60%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (4.06%) BigQuery
11 7 (3.55%) Data Mining
12 5 (2.54%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.54%) Essbase
12 5 (2.54%) Neo4j
12 5 (2.54%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.03%) Base SAS
13 4 (2.03%) MongoDB
13 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (7.11%) ERwin
2 11 (5.58%) Git
3 9 (4.57%) ER Studio
4 7 (3.55%) GitLab
4 7 (3.55%) JIRA
5 4 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.03%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.02%) Ant
7 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.02%) Postman
8 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 51 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (15.23%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.72%) Finance
5 16 (8.12%) Banking
6 10 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.55%) Publishing
9 6 (3.05%) Marketing
10 4 (2.03%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Automotive
12 2 (1.02%) Billing
12 2 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.02%) Legal
12 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.02%) Military
12 2 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (26.90%) Architect
2 43 (21.83%) Data Architect
3 29 (14.72%) Data Engineer
4 26 (13.20%) Analyst
5 21 (10.66%) Data Modeller
6 18 (9.14%) Senior
7 16 (8.12%) Lead
8 15 (7.61%) Data Analyst
9 10 (5.08%) Consultant
10 8 (4.06%) Governance Analyst
11 7 (3.55%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (3.55%) Python Engineer
12 6 (3.05%) Audio Visual Technician
12 6 (3.05%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.54%) Senior Architect
13 5 (2.54%) Senior Data Architect
13 5 (2.54%) Senior Data Modeller
14 4 (2.03%) Banking Analyst
14 4 (2.03%) Essbase Consultant
14 4 (2.03%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.63%) PySpark
2 7 (3.55%) Jinja
2 7 (3.55%) Kafka
2 7 (3.55%) React
2 7 (3.55%) Spring
3 6 (3.05%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.54%) Plotly
4 5 (2.54%) REST
5 4 (2.03%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.03%) MDX
5 4 (2.03%) pytest
6 3 (1.52%) GWT
6 3 (1.52%) JWT
6 3 (1.52%) OAuth
6 3 (1.52%) Servlets
6 3 (1.52%) Spring Security
7 2 (1.02%) ADO
7 2 (1.02%) CSS
7 2 (1.02%) HTML
8 1 (0.51%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Reference Data
2 14 (7.11%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.06%) Data Fabric
4 8 (4.06%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.55%) Taxonomies
6 6 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.05%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.54%) NHS
7 5 (2.54%) Replication
8 4 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.02%) Clustering
10 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.51%) FMCG
11 1 (0.51%) Life Science
11 1 (0.51%) LIMS
11 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.06%) Unix
2 5 (2.54%) Linux
3 2 (1.02%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (48.73%) Data Modelling
2 79 (40.10%) Metadata Management
3 63 (31.98%) Data Architecture
4 62 (31.47%) Analytics
5 57 (28.93%) Data Governance
6 49 (24.87%) Business Intelligence
6 49 (24.87%) Data Management
7 40 (20.30%) ETL
8 39 (19.80%) Data Engineering
9 38 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (15.74%) Data Integration
10 31 (15.74%) Visualisation
11 30 (15.23%) Agile
11 30 (15.23%) CI/CD
11 30 (15.23%) Migration
12 29 (14.72%) Data Science
13 27 (13.71%) Machine Learning
14 26 (13.20%) Artificial Intelligence
14 26 (13.20%) DevOps
15 25 (12.69%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 72 (36.55%) SQL
2 45 (22.84%) Python
3 14 (7.11%) Java
4 10 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.05%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.52%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.52%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.52%) PROC SQL
6 3 (1.52%) SAS Macro
6 3 (1.52%) Scala
7 2 (1.02%) R
7 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.51%) C#
8 1 (0.51%) Perl
8 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.23%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.20%) Degree
4 11 (5.58%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.54%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (26.40%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.63%) GDPR
3 13 (6.60%) QA
4 6 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (2.03%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.52%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.51%) GMP
7 1 (0.51%) GxP
7 1 (0.51%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (5.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.51%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.06%) Terraform
2 4 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.75%) Databricks
3 24 (12.18%) Google
4 15 (7.61%) Informatica
5 14 (7.11%) SAP
6 13 (6.60%) Oracle
7 6 (3.05%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.05%) Sparx
8 5 (2.54%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.54%) IBM
9 4 (2.03%) Ab Initio
9 4 (2.03%) Talend
10 3 (1.52%) Adobe
11 2 (1.02%) Autodesk
11 2 (1.02%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (1.02%) Remedy
11 2 (1.02%) VMware
12 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.51%) StreamSets