Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Metadata Management
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.35% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.18%
75th Percentile £550 - £688
90th Percentile £610 - -
South West median daily rate £525 - £675
% change year-on-year - - -6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.41 - -
25th Percentile £62.43 - -
Median hourly rate £62.45 - -
75th Percentile £62.48 - -
90th Percentile £62.49 - -
South West median hourly rate £62.40 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 380 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 80.81% 91.79% 85.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 244 352
10th Percentile £413 £257 £350
25th Percentile £475 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £631 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 9
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £14.10 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.27 £12.79
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +74.08% -78.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £25.15 -
90th Percentile £85.25 - £22.23
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in Wiltshire

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Corsham - 6 £500 - 1
Metadata Management
South West

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 4 (40.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (10.00%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (20.00%) Collibra
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) Alation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) Parquet
3 3 (30.00%) Big Data
3 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Governance Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Governance Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (40.00%) REST
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Validation
3 5 (50.00%) API Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (40.00%) Data Science
4 4 (40.00%) Data Validation
4 4 (40.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (30.00%) AI
5 3 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) Data Lineage
5 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Informatica
3 3 (30.00%) Palantir
4 2 (20.00%) Databricks
5 1 (10.00%) Foundry