Metadata Contracts in Yorkshire

Metadata
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 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 89 90 121
Rank change year-on-year +1 +31 +1
Contract jobs citing Metadata 3 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.29% 0.59% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.49% 4.12% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile - £735 £407
25th Percentile £363 £750 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £800 £480
Median % change year-on-year -53.10% +66.56% -19.33%
75th Percentile £394 £849 -
90th Percentile £398 - -
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year - -24.14% -48.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 202 243 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.86% 14.39% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 183 181
10th Percentile £318 £365 £388
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £693
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +199.64% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +15 3 £375 -53.13% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Report Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Case Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
1 2 (66.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Liquidlogic
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks