Metadata Contracts with Work from Home Options

Metadata
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 283 294
Rank change year-on-year +20 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Metadata 80 188 391
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.76% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.77% 4.02% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 150 266
10th Percentile £362 £428 £363
25th Percentile £406 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £583 £569
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £693 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £778 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +2.22% -2.17% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £22.73 £17.50 £17.28
25th Percentile £28.31 £34.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £40.25 £62.50 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.60% -8.09% +102.99%
75th Percentile £42.88 £66.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £77.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.63 £66.00
% change year-on-year -8.77% -46.02% +65.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,885 4,681 9,552
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.51% 19.02% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,126 3,423 6,942
10th Percentile £356 £387 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £733
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 78 89
10th Percentile £20.24 £22.16 £19.80
25th Percentile £22.61 £40.06 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +37.89% +48.44%
75th Percentile £62.63 £74.69 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +76.92%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Metadata trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata.

Metadata daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Metadata over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Metadata daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata.

Metadata hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Metadata over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Metadata hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 9 (11.25%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.00%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.75%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.25%) CMS
5 1 (1.25%) Confluence
5 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.25%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.25%) OPENHousing
1 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.75%) Collibra
2 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.00%) Azure
3 8 (10.00%) GCP
3 8 (10.00%) GitHub
4 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.75%) AWS
5 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
5 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.50%) Veeva
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.25%) Serverless
7 1 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 15 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (11.25%) Power BI
4 6 (7.50%) BigQuery
4 6 (7.50%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 5 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (3.75%) OLAP
7 3 (3.75%) OLTP
7 3 (3.75%) PowerPivot
7 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.50%) Big Data
8 2 (2.50%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.50%) EDMS
8 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Power View
8 2 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.25%) PowerCenter
9 1 (1.25%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) ERwin
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) kappa
4 1 (1.25%) RStudio
General
1 26 (32.50%) Finance
2 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (15.00%) Manufacturing
4 12 (15.00%) Retail
5 11 (13.75%) Banking
6 9 (11.25%) Electronics
6 9 (11.25%) Legal
6 9 (11.25%) Marketing
6 9 (11.25%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.00%) Publishing
8 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.50%) Public Speaking
10 1 (1.25%) Advertising
10 1 (1.25%) Back Office
10 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Architect
2 18 (22.50%) Data Architect
3 13 (16.25%) Data Engineer
4 12 (15.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 12 (15.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 9 (11.25%) Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Data Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Governance Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Administrator
8 3 (3.75%) Data Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Senior
8 3 (3.75%) SharePoint Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Consultant
9 2 (2.50%) Information Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Power BI Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) CSS
1 4 (5.00%) HTML
2 2 (2.50%) .NET
2 2 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) CAML
3 1 (1.25%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) LDAP
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.25%) SPFx
3 1 (1.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.25%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 10 (12.50%) Wiki
2 7 (8.75%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.25%) Taxonomies
4 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Life Science
5 2 (2.50%) Omics
5 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.25%) FMCG
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) CentOS
2 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) Data Governance
2 36 (45.00%) Data Management
2 36 (45.00%) Metadata Management
3 32 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 21 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (26.25%) Data Lineage
5 18 (22.50%) Data Architecture
6 17 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (20.00%) Data Strategy
8 15 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.50%) Data Integration
9 14 (17.50%) Master Data Management
10 13 (16.25%) ETL
11 12 (15.00%) Data Analysis
11 12 (15.00%) Physical Data Model
11 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (13.75%) Programme Management
13 10 (12.50%) Data Flow Diagram
13 10 (12.50%) Domain Models
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) Python
3 9 (11.25%) PL/SQL
4 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 5 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
6 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.25%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.25%) R
6 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Degree
2 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (36.25%) Data Quality
2 17 (21.25%) GDPR
3 7 (8.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.75%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Terraform
2 4 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.25%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Oracle
2 11 (13.75%) SAP
2 11 (13.75%) Sparx
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) Nexthink
4 4 (5.00%) Snow
5 3 (3.75%) Databricks
5 3 (3.75%) VMware
6 2 (2.50%) Informatica
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) NEC
7 1 (1.25%) Northgate
7 1 (1.25%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.25%) Red Hat