Metadata Management Contracts in Wales

Metadata Management
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 44 58
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 6 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.10% 0.26% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 0.32% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £184 - -
25th Percentile £203 - £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £224 - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.26%
75th Percentile £252 - £684
90th Percentile £263 - £694
UK median daily rate £545 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +9.00% -13.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 251 308 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.76% 78.57% 87.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 211 426
10th Percentile £185 £166 £184
25th Percentile £285 £361 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £497 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -20.78%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.96 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% -0.11% +44.00%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in Wales

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in Wales

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
South Wales +10 5 £213 - 1
Metadata Management
UK

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 5 (83.33%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Architect
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
4 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Data Development
6 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
6 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Certification
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Google
2 5 (83.33%) Databricks
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (66.67%) Cloudera
4 1 (16.67%) Remedy