Metadata Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Metadata
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 259 287
Rank change year-on-year +26 +28 -7
Contract jobs citing Metadata 67 87 189
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.57% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.19% 3.00% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 62 153
10th Percentile £299 £361 £413
25th Percentile £456 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £590
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -13.14% +2.61%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £688
90th Percentile £799 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.09% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £22.54 £22.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £28.31 £28.75
Median hourly rate £25.43 £40.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% -35.60% -8.09%
75th Percentile £29.07 £42.88 £66.00
90th Percentile £29.63 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% -46.97%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Metadata 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 2,102 2,903 4,883
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.23% 19.06% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,137 3,563
10th Percentile £363 £356 £385
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £685 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 83
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.20
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £41.75
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -38.46% +39.28%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -17.98% -31.73% +37.86%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Metadata trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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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.

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 remote working options citing Metadata over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Metadata.

Metadata hourly rate 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 2 (2.99%) SAS
1 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.34%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) AWS
3 12 (17.91%) GCP
3 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (10.45%) Collibra
4 7 (10.45%) dbt
4 7 (10.45%) GitHub
4 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Machine Learning
5 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.48%) Alation
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.48%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.99%) PaaS
8 1 (1.49%) Apigee
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (22.39%) Data Lake
3 12 (17.91%) Power BI
4 9 (13.43%) Metadata Repository
5 7 (10.45%) Big Data
5 7 (10.45%) Relational Database
6 5 (7.46%) Neo4j
6 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
6 5 (7.46%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.46%) Tableau
7 4 (5.97%) Delta Lake
7 4 (5.97%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.48%) MySQL
9 2 (2.99%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) ERwin
2 5 (7.46%) ER Studio
3 4 (5.97%) GitLab
3 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.49%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) Postman
4 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (31.34%) Public Sector
2 17 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (20.90%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Finance
4 5 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.99%) Law
6 2 (2.99%) Military
6 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Architect
2 19 (28.36%) Data Architect
3 10 (14.93%) Lead
4 9 (13.43%) Data Modeller
5 8 (11.94%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead Java Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Senior
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Architect
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) Consultant
8 2 (2.99%) Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Report Specialist
8 2 (2.99%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) Jinja
2 5 (7.46%) Plotly
2 5 (7.46%) React
3 4 (5.97%) REST
3 4 (5.97%) Spring
3 4 (5.97%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.48%) GWT
4 3 (4.48%) JWT
4 3 (4.48%) OAuth
4 3 (4.48%) PySpark
4 3 (4.48%) Servlets
4 3 (4.48%) Spring Security
5 2 (2.99%) Kafka
6 1 (1.49%) ADO
6 1 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.49%) MDX
6 1 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.49%) SOAP
6 1 (1.49%) Swagger
6 1 (1.49%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.97%) Data Fabric
2 4 (5.97%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.49%) FMCG
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) NHS
5 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (68.66%) Data Modelling
2 29 (43.28%) Data Architecture
3 26 (38.81%) Metadata Management
4 21 (31.34%) Analytics
4 21 (31.34%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (29.85%) Data Governance
6 15 (22.39%) ETL
6 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
8 13 (19.40%) Data Management
9 12 (17.91%) Data Engineering
9 12 (17.91%) Data Science
9 12 (17.91%) Logical Data Model
10 10 (14.93%) Data Integration
10 10 (14.93%) Visualisation
11 9 (13.43%) Computer Science
11 9 (13.43%) Data Strategy
12 8 (11.94%) DevOps
12 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (10.45%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.85%) SQL
2 12 (17.91%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.97%) Java
5 3 (4.48%) Scala
6 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.49%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.91%) Degree
4 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.49%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.87%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.96%) GDPR
3 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (5.97%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Databricks
2 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.43%) Google
4 8 (11.94%) Informatica
5 6 (8.96%) Oracle
6 5 (7.46%) Cloudera
7 4 (5.97%) SAP
8 2 (2.99%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.99%) Sparx
9 1 (1.49%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.49%) IBM
9 1 (1.49%) Remedy
9 1 (1.49%) Talend