Metadata Repository Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Metadata Repository
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Metadata Repository skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Repository over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 340 467
Rank change year-on-year +45 +127 +105
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 9 5 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.033% 0.039%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.43% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 9
10th Percentile £165 £655 £613
25th Percentile £201 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -64.87% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £388 £825 £740
90th Percentile £445 - £795
UK median daily rate £375 £900 £650
% change year-on-year -58.33% +38.46% -10.34%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Metadata Repository 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Metadata Repository
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Metadata Repository
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 Repository.

Metadata Repository daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Metadata Repository
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Metadata Repository over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Metadata Repository daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Metadata Repository
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 (11.11%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) PaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (33.33%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (11.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Report Specialist
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (88.89%) Analytics
3 6 (66.67%) Metadata Management
4 5 (55.56%) Data Analytics
4 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Data Science
5 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 4 (44.44%) Data Architecture
5 4 (44.44%) Data Integration
6 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (33.33%) DevOps
7 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (22.22%) Case Management
7 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
7 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (22.22%) Data Development
7 2 (22.22%) ERP
7 2 (22.22%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
1 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Certification
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Databricks
3 5 (55.56%) Cloudera
3 5 (55.56%) Google
4 2 (22.22%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (22.22%) SAP
5 1 (11.11%) Remedy