Metadata Management Contracts

Metadata Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Metadata Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 532 555
Rank change year-on-year +50 +23 -23
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 100 171 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 133 198
10th Percentile - £434 £455
25th Percentile £400 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% - -20.69%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £845 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +30.00% -13.04% -20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £19.89 £62.85 -
25th Percentile £29.06 £64.88 £65.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% -5.71% +551.16%
75th Percentile £46.18 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.02% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Metadata Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata Management over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata Management in the UK

Metadata Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +40 89 £525 -4.55% 37
London +67 53 £450 -30.77% 20
Work from Home +72 36 £450 -29.41% 18
UK excluding London +24 36 £650 +30.00% 18
North of England +35 15 £775 +63.11% 6
North West +20 10 £525 +7.69% 2
South East +6 8 £578 +26.92% 2
South West +10 7 £675 +35.00% 3
Yorkshire +23 5 £800 +99.88% 3
Scotland +35 2 £525 -34.38%
Midlands +22 2 £573 +20.53% 4
West Midlands +16 2 £573 +20.53% 3
Wales +15 1 - - 1
East of England +13 1 - - 2

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (13.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.00%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (7.00%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.00%) Apache
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.00%) CMS
5 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (30.00%) Collibra
2 17 (17.00%) Power Platform
3 15 (15.00%) Azure
4 7 (7.00%) AWS
4 7 (7.00%) GCP
5 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.00%) Alation
6 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.00%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.00%) Veeva
9 2 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.00%) Serverless
9 2 (2.00%) ShareGate
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.00%) Firewall
1 1 (1.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (100.00%) Metadata
2 27 (27.00%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (22.00%) SQL Server
4 14 (14.00%) Power BI
5 11 (11.00%) NoSQL
6 10 (10.00%) Big Data
7 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
7 8 (8.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.00%) Data Lake
8 7 (7.00%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (7.00%) PowerPivot
9 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Power View
9 6 (6.00%) RDBMS
10 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.00%) EDMS
11 3 (3.00%) OLAP
11 3 (3.00%) OLTP
12 2 (2.00%) Tableau
13 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (1.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) ERwin
2 2 (2.00%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) kappa
3 1 (1.00%) Git
General
1 23 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.00%) Finance
4 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.00%) Banking
6 7 (7.00%) Legal
6 7 (7.00%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (6.00%) Publishing
8 5 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Marketing
10 2 (2.00%) Public Speaking
11 1 (1.00%) Electronics
11 1 (1.00%) Law
11 1 (1.00%) Retail
11 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (29.00%) Architect
2 22 (22.00%) Data Architect
3 19 (19.00%) Integration Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) SharePoint Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Analyst
5 6 (6.00%) Data Analyst
5 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
5 6 (6.00%) Data Modeller
6 5 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (4.00%) Data Consultant
7 4 (4.00%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.00%) Lead
8 3 (3.00%) Administrator
8 3 (3.00%) Data Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 3 (3.00%) Governance Consultant
8 3 (3.00%) Information Architect
8 3 (3.00%) Senior
8 3 (3.00%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.00%) CSS
1 10 (10.00%) HTML
2 3 (3.00%) SPFx
3 2 (2.00%) jQuery
4 1 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.00%) CAML
4 1 (1.00%) Kafka
4 1 (1.00%) LDAP
4 1 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Taxonomies
2 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.00%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (1.00%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) CentOS
1 1 (1.00%) Linux
1 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.00%) Windows
1 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (76.00%) Data Governance
2 45 (45.00%) Data Lineage
3 43 (43.00%) Data Modelling
4 42 (42.00%) Data Management
5 30 (30.00%) ETL
6 28 (28.00%) Data Architecture
7 25 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (22.00%) Data Analysis
9 21 (21.00%) Data Strategy
10 17 (17.00%) Data Integration
11 16 (16.00%) Data Security
12 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.00%) Data Privacy
13 13 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (12.00%) Analytics
14 12 (12.00%) Information Architecture
14 12 (12.00%) Information Management
14 12 (12.00%) Project Management
15 11 (11.00%) Risk Management
16 10 (10.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) SQL
2 12 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.00%) Python
7 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.00%) GDPR
3 9 (9.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.00%) GRC
4 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 10 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.00%) Informatica
2 7 (7.00%) Nexthink
2 7 (7.00%) Oracle
2 7 (7.00%) VMware
3 6 (6.00%) Remedy
4 5 (5.00%) Okta
4 5 (5.00%) SAP
4 5 (5.00%) Snow
4 5 (5.00%) Sparx
4 5 (5.00%) Symantec
4 5 (5.00%) Talend
4 5 (5.00%) Varonis
5 4 (4.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.00%) Databricks
6 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.00%) Cadence
7 1 (1.00%) Google
7 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.00%) Salesforce