Metadata Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Metadata
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 61 67
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +39
Contract jobs citing Metadata 9 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.81% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.74% 2.59% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £381 - -
25th Percentile £439 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £375 £750
Median % change year-on-year +79.00% -50.00% +56.25%
75th Percentile £780 £394 £800
90th Percentile - £398 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £375 £800
% change year-on-year +50.00% -53.10% +66.56%

All Database & BI 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 190 116 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 17.07% 21.28% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 78 122
10th Percentile £283 £396 £378
25th Percentile £418 £416 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £606
90th Percentile £675 £738 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £29.60 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £31.54 £19.44
Median hourly rate £74.00 £32.96 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +124.51% +59.19% -
75th Percentile - £34.38 £21.97
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £74.00 £32.96 £12.25
% change year-on-year +124.51% +169.06% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in West Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Metadata

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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 25 April 2026. 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
Leeds -19 8 £671 +67.81% 5
Metadata
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
3 1 (11.11%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (11.11%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) Fivetran
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Marketing
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Law
5 1 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Data Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modeller
3 3 (33.33%) Insight Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Lead
4 2 (22.22%) Data Insight Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Insight Data Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Lead Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Product Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
2 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Metadata Management
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Data Design
3 3 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 3 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 3 (33.33%) Pricing Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Stress Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Teradata
3 1 (11.11%) Foundry