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

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 310 330
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +4
Contract jobs citing Metadata 218 302 450
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.69% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.90% 4.14% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 204 303
10th Percentile £234 £390 £406
25th Percentile £440 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £775 £688
90th Percentile £775 £925 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -18.26% +15.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 15
10th Percentile £22.63 £13.50 £24.50
25th Percentile £22.72 £19.37 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% -45.10%
75th Percentile £56.13 £45.57 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £46.18 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.25 £36.25
% change year-on-year -31.68% +11.03% +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 5,583 7,301 10,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.01% 16.73% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,853 5,192 7,728
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +0.93%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 146 184
10th Percentile £20.47 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.58 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.56% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.62 £57.61 £71.75
90th Percentile £73.63 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.90% -31.09% +65.84%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +12 190 £521 -13.13% 329
London +10 107 £600 -11.76% 232
UK excluding London +16 91 £470 -18.26% 116
Work from Home +30 71 £548 +6.83% 149
North of England +11 26 £525 -27.59% 30
South East +60 21 £478 -13.18% 36
North West +11 17 £545 -17.74% 13
Midlands +20 13 £107 -81.79% 18
West Midlands +16 13 £107 -82.17% 16
East of England +30 12 £320 -21.97% 5
South West +29 8 £525 -6.67% 16
Wales +8 6 £224 - 1
North East +2 6 £543 - 7
Scotland +1 5 £529 +0.76% 11
Yorkshire +4 3 £375 -53.10% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 1

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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 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.59%) SAS
3 6 (2.75%) CMS
4 5 (2.29%) Confluence
5 4 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.38%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.92%) Apache
8 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.46%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 15 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.13%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.92%) HFM
3 2 (0.92%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (27.98%) Azure
2 44 (20.18%) AWS
3 33 (15.14%) GCP
4 29 (13.30%) Power Platform
5 23 (10.55%) Collibra
6 17 (7.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (5.96%) GitHub
8 11 (5.05%) dbt
9 10 (4.59%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (4.13%) Serverless
11 8 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (2.29%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (2.29%) SaaS
15 4 (1.83%) Alation
15 4 (1.83%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.38%) SMS
2 1 (0.46%) FTP
2 1 (0.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (26.61%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (13.76%) Data Lake
3 29 (13.30%) Power BI
4 20 (9.17%) Tableau
5 19 (8.72%) Big Data
5 19 (8.72%) Metadata Repository
6 14 (6.42%) NoSQL
6 14 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.59%) Data Mining
7 10 (4.59%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (3.21%) BigQuery
8 7 (3.21%) Delta Lake
9 5 (2.29%) Essbase
9 5 (2.29%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.29%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.83%) Base SAS
10 4 (1.83%) QlikView
10 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (6.42%) ERwin
2 9 (4.13%) ER Studio
2 9 (4.13%) Git
3 7 (3.21%) GitLab
4 6 (2.75%) JIRA
5 4 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.83%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.92%) Postman
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 58 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (15.60%) Public Sector
4 31 (14.22%) Finance
5 19 (8.72%) Banking
6 13 (5.96%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.75%) Legal
10 5 (2.29%) Publishing
11 4 (1.83%) Marketing
11 4 (1.83%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.38%) Retail
13 2 (0.92%) Billing
13 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.92%) Police
13 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (26.15%) Architect
2 48 (22.02%) Data Architect
3 32 (14.68%) Data Engineer
4 27 (12.39%) Analyst
5 24 (11.01%) Lead
6 20 (9.17%) Data Modeller
7 18 (8.26%) Senior
8 14 (6.42%) Data Analyst
9 9 (4.13%) Audio Visual Technician
10 8 (3.67%) Consultant
10 8 (3.67%) Governance Analyst
11 6 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (2.29%) Banking Analyst
12 5 (2.29%) Developer
12 5 (2.29%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.29%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.29%) Senior Data Architect
13 4 (1.83%) Data Manager
13 4 (1.83%) Essbase Consultant
13 4 (1.83%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.88%) PySpark
2 12 (5.50%) Kafka
3 8 (3.67%) Jinja
4 7 (3.21%) React
4 7 (3.21%) Spring
5 6 (2.75%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.29%) Plotly
6 5 (2.29%) REST
7 4 (1.83%) ADO
7 4 (1.83%) MDX
8 3 (1.38%) FastAPI
8 3 (1.38%) GWT
8 3 (1.38%) JWT
8 3 (1.38%) OAuth
8 3 (1.38%) pytest
8 3 (1.38%) Servlets
8 3 (1.38%) Spring Security
9 1 (0.46%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.46%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (0.46%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.80%) Reference Data
2 15 (6.88%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.13%) Taxonomies
5 8 (3.67%) Data Fabric
5 8 (3.67%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.75%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.75%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.29%) Replication
9 4 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.83%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.83%) NHS
10 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.92%) Life Science
12 1 (0.46%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.67%) Unix
2 5 (2.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.46%) Android
3 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (45.87%) Data Modelling
2 85 (38.99%) Metadata Management
3 74 (33.94%) Data Governance
4 65 (29.82%) Analytics
4 65 (29.82%) Data Architecture
5 58 (26.61%) Data Management
6 54 (24.77%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (19.72%) ETL
8 42 (19.27%) Data Engineering
8 42 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.43%) Agile
10 37 (16.97%) Data Integration
11 34 (15.60%) Visualisation
12 32 (14.68%) Data Science
13 30 (13.76%) Migration
14 27 (12.39%) CI/CD
15 26 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
15 26 (11.93%) Machine Learning
16 25 (11.47%) Logical Data Model
17 24 (11.01%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 73 (33.49%) SQL
2 48 (22.02%) Python
3 12 (5.50%) Java
4 7 (3.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.29%) Scala
5 5 (2.29%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.38%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.38%) PROC SQL
7 3 (1.38%) SAS Macro
8 2 (0.92%) Bash
8 2 (0.92%) C++
8 2 (0.92%) R
9 1 (0.46%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.46%) C#
9 1 (0.46%) Perl
9 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.39%) Degree
4 11 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) ACCA
9 1 (0.46%) CIMA
9 1 (0.46%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.46%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (27.98%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.63%) GDPR
3 11 (5.05%) QA
4 8 (3.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 7 (3.21%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.38%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.46%) GMP
8 1 (0.46%) GxP
System Software
1 10 (4.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.46%) NFS
2 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (2.75%) Terraform
2 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 45 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 33 (15.14%) Databricks
3 24 (11.01%) Informatica
4 21 (9.63%) Google
5 15 (6.88%) SAP
6 14 (6.42%) Oracle
7 7 (3.21%) Sparx
8 5 (2.29%) Cloudera
8 5 (2.29%) IBM
8 5 (2.29%) Talend
9 4 (1.83%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.92%) Adobe
10 2 (0.92%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.92%) Autodesk
10 2 (0.92%) Hyperion
10 2 (0.92%) Liquidlogic
10 2 (0.92%) Remedy
11 1 (0.46%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.46%) StreamSets