Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Metadata Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 110 113
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +61
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £324 - £439
25th Percentile £359 £356 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £363 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% -29.27% -14.58%
75th Percentile £478 £369 £559
90th Percentile £513 - £576
England median daily rate £550 £550 £534
% change year-on-year - +3.00% -11.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,686 1,563 1,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.87% 83.23% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 984 1,161
10th Percentile £259 £228 £263
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £683 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 40 55
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.66 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.44 £21.82
Median hourly rate £23.03 £23.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -16.18% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +38.38%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the West Midlands

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Warwickshire -1 2 £300 - 1
Shropshire - 1 £537 - 2
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Repository
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Content Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Design
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) OpenText
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy