Metadata Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Metadata
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 97 108
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +29
Contract jobs citing Metadata 7 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.42% 0.14% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.04% 0.88% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £431 - £558
25th Percentile £475 £475 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £800
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -37.50% +52.38%
75th Percentile £542 £525 £925
90th Percentile £609 - £945
England median daily rate £538 £513 £556
% change year-on-year +4.88% -7.87% -3.26%

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 343 226 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.49% 15.78% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 144 156
10th Percentile £324 £372 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £571 £588 £616
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £20.83 £17.12
25th Percentile - £24.31 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% +11.63%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £22.68
90th Percentile - £32.25 £25.14
England median hourly rate £42.00 £34.47 £50.50
% change year-on-year +21.85% -31.75% +1.00%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Metadata job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Metadata

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Metadata

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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 22 October 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
South Yorkshire -21 7 £525 +5.00% 3
Metadata
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Collibra
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Alation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Ataccama
3 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 1 (14.29%) DataStage
3 1 (14.29%) DB2
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Hugging Face
1 3 (42.86%) OpenCV
1 3 (42.86%) PyTorch
1 3 (42.86%) Regular Expression
1 3 (42.86%) SpaCy
1 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Great Expectations
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lineage
2 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Deep Learning
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Image Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Intelligent Automation
2 3 (42.86%) KYC
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
2 3 (42.86%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (42.86%) OCR
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle