Metadata Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Metadata Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 315 384
Rank change year-on-year +40 +69 +77
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 27 37 86
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.27% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 72
10th Percentile £253 £385 £475
25th Percentile £348 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £463 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -28.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £763
90th Percentile £654 £638 £918
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +3.81% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £40.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.02% -5.71%
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -39.02% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,023 13,505 23,232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.03% 87.83% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,195 9,015 16,421
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 573 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £24.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Metadata Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Metadata Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Metadata Management.

Metadata Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Metadata Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Metadata Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Metadata Management.

Metadata Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) SAP ERP
1 2 (7.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Collibra
4 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.11%) Alation
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Apigee
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (100.00%) Metadata
2 6 (22.22%) Big Data
2 6 (22.22%) Data Lake
2 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (22.22%) Metadata Repository
3 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 4 (14.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (7.41%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (7.41%) Tableau
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.70%) Essbase
7 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) ER Studio
1 5 (18.52%) ERwin
2 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Data Modeller
2 6 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Report Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Data Governance Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Essbase Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Governance Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Architect
5 1 (3.70%) SAP Data Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) ADO
1 1 (3.70%) MDX
1 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Fabric
2 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.70%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.70%) FMCG
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Data Modelling
2 15 (55.56%) Data Governance
3 9 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 8 (29.63%) Analytics
4 8 (29.63%) Computer Science
4 8 (29.63%) Data Science
4 8 (29.63%) Logical Data Model
5 7 (25.93%) Data Management
5 7 (25.93%) ETL
5 7 (25.93%) Physical Data Model
6 6 (22.22%) Data Strategy
6 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.81%) Data Analytics
8 4 (14.81%) DevOps
8 4 (14.81%) Domain-Driven Design
8 4 (14.81%) Information Management
8 4 (14.81%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) PL/SQL
2 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Master's Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (48.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (18.52%) GDPR
3 4 (14.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (14.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (11.11%) QA
5 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Databricks
2 5 (18.52%) Informatica
3 4 (14.81%) Cloudera
3 4 (14.81%) Google
3 4 (14.81%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Sparx
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) Remedy
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce