Metadata Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Metadata
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.47% - 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.08% - 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £463 £575 £529
% change year-on-year -19.57% +8.70% -3.82%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Sussex

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 in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 48 23 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 22.75% 17.56% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 17 12
10th Percentile £184 £343 £432
25th Percentile £205 £425 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.16% -5.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £756
90th Percentile £687 £703 £760
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.38
Median hourly rate - - £22.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.21%
75th Percentile - - £23.13
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £13.50 £48.18 £49.50
% change year-on-year -71.98% -2.67% +139.71%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Metadata

Metadata
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 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
Worthing - 1 £500 -
Metadata
South East

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR