Metadata Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 157 215
Rank change year-on-year -19 +58 -14
Contract jobs citing Metadata 17 49 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.88% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.84% 5.90% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 26
10th Percentile - £252 £130
25th Percentile £290 £425 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £455 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -14.95% +12.63%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £605
90th Percentile £785 £625 £679
England median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £19.15 - -
25th Percentile £19.37 - -
Median hourly rate £19.99 - -
75th Percentile £20.84 - -
90th Percentile £21.21 - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.13 £70.00
% change year-on-year -40.98% -45.54% +118.20%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 599 830 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.01% 14.85% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 585 957
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £388 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £683
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 42 28
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £17.45
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.12 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £56.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% +150.00% -43.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £74.69 £49.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.68 £57.50
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Hampshire -2 9 £550 -8.33% 2
Thames Valley -13 7 £480 +6.67% 7
Berkshire -14 7 £480 - 1
East Sussex - 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (11.76%) CMS
4 1 (5.88%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (17.65%) Veeva
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) OneDrive
4 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 2 (11.76%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) BigQuery
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
2 3 (17.65%) EDMS
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata Repository
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Publishing
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
1 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Writer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Document Controller
3 2 (11.76%) Information Architect
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Drupal Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Web Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Web Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) jQuery
1 2 (11.76%) SPFx
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (5.88%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (17.65%) Taxonomies
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmacovigilance
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Metadata Management
2 6 (35.29%) Data Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Document Management
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Data Munging
3 4 (23.53%) Data Science
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Information Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Asset Management
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Content Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) Data Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
1 2 (11.76%) ISO 14001
1 2 (11.76%) ISO 9001
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) NVIDIA