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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 329 360
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 -34
Contract jobs citing Metadata 281 408 643
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.73% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% 4.12% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 273 412
10th Percentile £400 £413 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -0.45%
75th Percentile £800 £700 £675
90th Percentile £925 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £539
% change year-on-year +15.00% -7.19% -0.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 8
10th Percentile £13.50 £26.25 £19.85
25th Percentile £16.50 £35.00 £20.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.63 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -44.12% +50.00%
75th Percentile £42.88 £63.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £76.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.97 £38.13 -
% change year-on-year -45.00% - -

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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

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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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the UK

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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 1 June 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 +6 245 £638 +15.91% 100
London +36 150 £680 +10.57% 58
UK excluding London -2 101 £575 +15.00% 52
Work from Home +12 75 £500 -13.04% 53
North of England +16 27 £700 +40.00% 13
Scotland +41 22 £525 -11.02% 7
North West +10 17 £550 +10.00% 10
South West -9 16 £675 +35.00% 2
South East -14 16 £550 +6.80% 14
Midlands +26 11 £700 +55.56% 9
Yorkshire +23 10 £800 +66.61% 2
West Midlands +17 9 £700 +55.56% 8
East of England +3 9 £410 -8.89% 6
East Midlands +12 2 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales +16 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 31 (11.03%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.85%) Confluence
3 8 (2.85%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (2.49%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (2.14%) CMS
6 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.07%) Apache
7 3 (1.07%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.36%) Drupal
8 1 (0.36%) IIS
8 1 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.34%) MS Visio
3 9 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (1.07%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 23 (8.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.78%) Relativity
3 4 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.07%) MIS ActiveH
4 3 (1.07%) NEC Housing
4 3 (1.07%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.71%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.36%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.95%) Power Platform
2 40 (14.23%) Collibra
3 31 (11.03%) Azure
4 21 (7.47%) AWS
5 20 (7.12%) GCP
6 19 (6.76%) GitHub
7 12 (4.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (3.91%) Power Automate
9 10 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (3.56%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.78%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.78%) Serverless
11 4 (1.42%) Alation
11 4 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.42%) Slack
11 4 (1.42%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.07%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.07%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.78%) WebEx
2 4 (1.42%) Intranet
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.51%) Data Warehouse
1 52 (18.51%) NoSQL
2 43 (15.30%) Data Vault
2 43 (15.30%) Metadata Repository
2 43 (15.30%) SQL Server
3 41 (14.59%) Power BI
4 17 (6.05%) Oracle Database
5 16 (5.69%) Data Lake
6 15 (5.34%) Relational Database
7 14 (4.98%) Big Data
7 14 (4.98%) BigQuery
8 13 (4.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (4.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.85%) Pentaho
11 8 (2.85%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (2.85%) QlikView
12 7 (2.49%) PowerPivot
12 7 (2.49%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 13 (4.63%) JIRA
2 12 (4.27%) Oracle APEX
3 9 (3.20%) ERwin
4 6 (2.14%) Eclipse
4 6 (2.14%) PyCharm
5 4 (1.42%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (1.42%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.71%) kappa
7 1 (0.36%) GCC
7 1 (0.36%) Git
7 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.36%) RStudio
General
1 80 (28.47%) Finance
2 63 (22.42%) Social Skills
3 59 (21.00%) Public Sector
4 44 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (11.74%) Manufacturing
6 27 (9.61%) Marketing
6 27 (9.61%) Publishing
7 26 (9.25%) Electronics
7 26 (9.25%) Telecoms
8 23 (8.19%) Banking
9 14 (4.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (3.91%) Legal
11 9 (3.20%) Retail
12 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.14%) Law
13 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.07%) Public Speaking
13 3 (1.07%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (30.96%) Architect
2 76 (27.05%) Data Architect
3 37 (13.17%) Analyst
4 32 (11.39%) Data Analyst
5 28 (9.96%) Data Engineer
6 24 (8.54%) Chief Architect
6 24 (8.54%) Chief Data Architect
7 22 (7.83%) Senior
8 21 (7.47%) Developer
9 16 (5.69%) Consultant
9 16 (5.69%) Governance Analyst
10 14 (4.98%) Enterprise Architect
10 14 (4.98%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 12 (4.27%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 10 (3.56%) Head of Architecture
12 10 (3.56%) Head of Data Architecture
12 10 (3.56%) Power BI Developer
13 9 (3.20%) Business Analyst
14 8 (2.85%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.20%) CSS
1 9 (3.20%) HTML
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (1.07%) .NET
4 2 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.71%) JDBC
4 2 (0.71%) Kafka
4 2 (0.71%) Node.js
4 2 (0.71%) ODBC
4 2 (0.71%) PySpark
4 2 (0.71%) REST
5 1 (0.36%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.36%) Flask
5 1 (0.36%) HTML5
5 1 (0.36%) LangChain
5 1 (0.36%) LDAP
5 1 (0.36%) SPFx
5 1 (0.36%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.36%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.59%) Reference Data
2 21 (7.47%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.63%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.27%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.91%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.85%) Taxonomies
7 6 (2.14%) Wiki
8 5 (1.78%) Life Science
9 4 (1.42%) Derivative
9 4 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.07%) Lidar
11 2 (0.71%) Omics
12 1 (0.36%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.36%) Industry 4.0
12 1 (0.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.14%) Linux
2 5 (1.78%) Unix
3 1 (0.36%) CentOS
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (49.47%) Data Governance
2 121 (43.06%) Data Modelling
3 92 (32.74%) Metadata Management
4 85 (30.25%) Business Intelligence
5 83 (29.54%) Data Architecture
6 82 (29.18%) Data Management
7 56 (19.93%) Data Lineage
8 53 (18.86%) Data Strategy
9 50 (17.79%) ETL
10 47 (16.73%) Data Integration
11 42 (14.95%) UML
12 39 (13.88%) Data Design
12 39 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (12.81%) Data Analysis
14 33 (11.74%) Analytics
15 31 (11.03%) Programme Management
16 29 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (9.25%) Digital Marketing
17 26 (9.25%) Migration
18 25 (8.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (27.05%) SQL
2 36 (12.81%) Python
3 20 (7.12%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.34%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.27%) T-SQL
6 11 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.85%) MATLAB
8 6 (2.14%) Groovy
8 6 (2.14%) Java
9 4 (1.42%) Go
9 4 (1.42%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.71%) Bash
10 2 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.71%) R
10 2 (0.71%) VBA
11 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 63 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 44 (15.66%) Degree
4 12 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.07%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (21.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.54%) GDPR
3 9 (3.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 8 (2.85%) QA
5 7 (2.49%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.14%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (2.14%) GxP
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 14001
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.20%) Terraform
2 7 (2.49%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.78%) EnCase
4 4 (1.42%) Data Guard
4 4 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.36%) Kibana
5 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 36 (12.81%) SAP
2 32 (11.39%) Sparx
3 30 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.68%) Oracle
4 19 (6.76%) Informatica
5 13 (4.63%) Databricks
6 10 (3.56%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.85%) Google
8 7 (2.49%) Nexthink
8 7 (2.49%) Remedy
8 7 (2.49%) VMware
9 5 (1.78%) Nuix
9 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.78%) Snow
9 5 (1.78%) Talend
10 4 (1.42%) Okta
10 4 (1.42%) Splunk
10 4 (1.42%) Symantec
10 4 (1.42%) Varonis
11 3 (1.07%) ESRI