Metadata Contracts in West Yorkshire

Metadata
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 72 96
Rank change year-on-year +16 +24 +6
Contract jobs citing Metadata 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.54% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.54% 1.96% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - £740 £407
25th Percentile £363 £763 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £800 £480
Median % change year-on-year -53.13% +66.67% -30.18%
75th Percentile £394 - -
90th Percentile £398 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £800 £480
% change year-on-year -53.10% +66.56% -19.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 118 153 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.30% 15.39% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 126 148
10th Percentile £396 £388 £413
25th Percentile £425 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £600
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.10% +18.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 -
% change year-on-year +199.64% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Calderdale - 2 £375 -
Leeds +4 1 £400 -48.39% 5
Metadata
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Report Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Case Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
1 2 (66.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Liquidlogic
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks