Metadata Contracts

Metadata
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 334 346
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing Metadata 303 439 683
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.74% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.15% 4.08% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 296 455
10th Percentile £400 £412 £361
25th Percentile £450 £462 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £775 £688 £694
90th Percentile £925 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 7
10th Percentile £13.50 £24.50 £17.82
25th Percentile £17.75 - £39.13
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -46.97% +65.00%
75th Percentile £43.09 £64.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £76.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.97 £36.25 £14.55
% change year-on-year -42.15% +149.14% -66.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,303 10,763 17,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 18.03% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,193 7,663 12,744
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.78% +9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 183 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%
75th Percentile £58.55 £70.88 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

Metadata
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +17 264 £613 +11.36% 97
London +38 154 £680 +8.80% 55
UK excluding London +25 116 £575 +15.00% 45
Work from Home +21 87 £538 -8.90% 48
North of England +21 31 £725 +51.04% 15
Scotland +44 23 £525 -11.02% 3
North West +15 21 £663 +32.50% 8
South West -3 19 £563 +12.50% 7
South East -16 18 £550 +20.88% 8
Midlands +36 15 £588 +23.68% 4
West Midlands +36 13 £600 +26.32% 3
Yorkshire +27 10 £800 +66.56% 6
East of England +11 10 £410 -8.89% 6
East Midlands +22 2 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales +12 1 - - 3

Metadata
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 35 (11.55%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.64%) Confluence
3 8 (2.64%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (2.31%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.99%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.99%) CMS
7 2 (0.66%) Apache
8 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.61%) MS Visio
3 12 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.99%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 25 (8.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.65%) Relativity
3 4 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.66%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.33%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.52%) Collibra
2 42 (13.86%) Power Platform
3 37 (12.21%) Azure
4 23 (7.59%) AWS
4 23 (7.59%) GCP
5 19 (6.27%) GitHub
6 11 (3.63%) Power Automate
7 10 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (3.30%) PowerApps
8 9 (2.97%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (1.98%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.98%) Serverless
10 6 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.65%) Alation
12 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (1.32%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.65%) WebEx
2 3 (0.99%) Intranet
3 1 (0.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.15%) NoSQL
2 45 (14.85%) Data Vault
3 44 (14.52%) Metadata Repository
4 43 (14.19%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (12.87%) Power BI
5 39 (12.87%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.61%) Oracle Database
7 16 (5.28%) Data Lake
8 15 (4.95%) BigQuery
9 14 (4.62%) Big Data
9 14 (4.62%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (2.97%) RDBMS
13 8 (2.64%) Pentaho
13 8 (2.64%) Qlik Sense
13 8 (2.64%) QlikView
14 7 (2.31%) PowerPivot
15 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 16 (5.28%) ERwin
2 12 (3.96%) JIRA
2 12 (3.96%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (1.98%) Eclipse
3 6 (1.98%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.32%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.32%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.66%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.66%) Git
5 2 (0.66%) kappa
6 1 (0.33%) GCC
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) RStudio
General
1 87 (28.71%) Finance
2 68 (22.44%) Public Sector
2 68 (22.44%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (13.20%) Manufacturing
5 33 (10.89%) Marketing
6 32 (10.56%) Electronics
6 32 (10.56%) Telecoms
7 26 (8.58%) Publishing
8 22 (7.26%) Banking
9 17 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (4.95%) Retail
11 14 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (3.63%) Legal
13 6 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.98%) Law
14 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.99%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 100 (33.00%) Architect
2 88 (29.04%) Data Architect
3 38 (12.54%) Analyst
4 32 (10.56%) Data Analyst
5 28 (9.24%) Data Engineer
6 23 (7.59%) Chief Architect
6 23 (7.59%) Chief Data Architect
6 23 (7.59%) Senior
7 19 (6.27%) Enterprise Architect
7 19 (6.27%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 19 (6.27%) Integration Engineer
8 17 (5.61%) Developer
9 15 (4.95%) Consultant
9 15 (4.95%) Governance Analyst
10 12 (3.96%) Data Manager
11 9 (2.97%) Business Analyst
11 9 (2.97%) Data Modeller
11 9 (2.97%) Head of Architecture
11 9 (2.97%) Head of Data Architecture
12 8 (2.64%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.63%) CSS
1 11 (3.63%) HTML
2 5 (1.65%) .NET
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (0.99%) PySpark
4 3 (0.99%) SPFx
5 2 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.66%) JDBC
5 2 (0.66%) jQuery
5 2 (0.66%) Kafka
5 2 (0.66%) Node.js
5 2 (0.66%) ODBC
5 2 (0.66%) REST
6 1 (0.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.33%) JSON
6 1 (0.33%) LDAP
6 1 (0.33%) Middleware
6 1 (0.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.33%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.20%) Reference Data
2 19 (6.27%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (4.62%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.29%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.29%) Wiki
5 11 (3.63%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.30%) Taxonomies
7 8 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.65%) Life Science
9 4 (1.32%) Derivative
9 4 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.99%) CMDB
10 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.99%) Lidar
10 3 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.66%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.65%) Linux
1 5 (1.65%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.33%) CentOS
3 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (50.50%) Data Governance
2 134 (44.22%) Data Modelling
3 102 (33.66%) Metadata Management
4 94 (31.02%) Data Architecture
5 90 (29.70%) Data Management
6 87 (28.71%) Business Intelligence
7 68 (22.44%) Data Strategy
8 67 (22.11%) Data Lineage
9 52 (17.16%) ETL
10 51 (16.83%) Data Integration
11 42 (13.86%) UML
12 39 (12.87%) Data Design
12 39 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (12.54%) Analytics
13 38 (12.54%) Data Analysis
14 37 (12.21%) Programme Management
15 32 (10.56%) Digital Marketing
16 25 (8.25%) Data Protection
16 25 (8.25%) Migration
16 25 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (26.07%) SQL
2 36 (11.88%) Python
3 19 (6.27%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.61%) PL/SQL
4 17 (5.61%) T-SQL
5 15 (4.95%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.98%) Groovy
6 6 (1.98%) Java
7 5 (1.65%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.32%) Go
8 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.99%) R
10 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.33%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 49 (16.17%) Degree
4 13 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (22.77%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.23%) GDPR
3 9 (2.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (1.98%) Good Clinical Practice
4 6 (1.98%) GxP
4 6 (1.98%) QA
5 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.66%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.66%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.97%) Terraform
2 5 (1.65%) EnCase
3 4 (1.32%) Data Guard
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 43 (14.19%) SAP
2 41 (13.53%) Sparx
3 35 (11.55%) Oracle
4 32 (10.56%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.59%) Informatica
6 13 (4.29%) Databricks
6 13 (4.29%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.64%) Google
8 7 (2.31%) VMware
9 6 (1.98%) Remedy
9 6 (1.98%) Talend
10 5 (1.65%) IBM
10 5 (1.65%) Nuix
10 5 (1.65%) Okta
10 5 (1.65%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.65%) Symantec
10 5 (1.65%) Varonis
11 4 (1.32%) Splunk
12 3 (0.99%) ESRI
12 3 (0.99%) Snow