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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 317 371
Rank change year-on-year +48 +54 +110
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 37 32 74
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.22% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.25% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 57
10th Percentile £312 £399 £475
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £470 £625
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% -24.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £763
90th Percentile £775 £676 £1,000
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
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 - £40.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -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 9,083 12,777 21,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.80% 87.15% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,143 8,596 15,082
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +1.89%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 555 504
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.07 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.77 £24.88 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.00 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -17.81% +24.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £79.06
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -32.93% +3.45% +39.42%

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 29 June 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 3 (8.11%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) CMS
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) GCP
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
4 5 (13.51%) Collibra
4 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.81%) dbt
6 3 (8.11%) Alation
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.41%) SaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Apigee
8 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.70%) GitHub
8 1 (2.70%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.70%) IaaS
8 1 (2.70%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (100.00%) Metadata
2 12 (32.43%) Data Lake
3 11 (29.73%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (27.03%) Big Data
5 8 (21.62%) SQL Server
6 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
6 5 (13.51%) Power BI
6 5 (13.51%) Relational Database
7 4 (10.81%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (10.81%) RDBMS
7 4 (10.81%) WebFOCUS
8 2 (5.41%) BigQuery
8 2 (5.41%) Data Vault
8 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.41%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (5.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) ERwin
2 5 (13.51%) ER Studio
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) Git
4 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.70%) Local Government
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Data Modeller
2 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 4 (10.81%) Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Developer
3 4 (10.81%) SQL Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Report Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Solutions Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Solutions Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Agile Project Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Data Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) Database Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Principal Architect
6 1 (2.70%) SAP Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.70%) ADO
2 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.81%) Data Fabric
2 4 (10.81%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Data Modelling
2 24 (64.86%) Data Governance
3 14 (37.84%) Data Architecture
3 14 (37.84%) ETL
4 11 (29.73%) Data Lineage
4 11 (29.73%) Data Management
5 10 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (24.32%) Analytics
6 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (21.62%) Logical Data Model
7 8 (21.62%) Physical Data Model
8 7 (18.92%) Data Strategy
8 7 (18.92%) Regulatory Compliance
9 6 (16.22%) Agile
9 6 (16.22%) Data Engineering
9 6 (16.22%) Data Governance Strategy
9 6 (16.22%) Data Science
9 6 (16.22%) DevOps
10 5 (13.51%) Data Analysis
10 5 (13.51%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) T-SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.41%) Scala
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (48.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (21.62%) GDPR
3 4 (10.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (10.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (10.81%) QA
4 1 (2.70%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Informatica
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Google
2 4 (10.81%) SAP
3 3 (8.11%) Databricks
4 2 (5.41%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.41%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Talend
5 1 (2.70%) Duck Creek
5 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Sparx
5 1 (2.70%) Teradata