Metadata Contracts in England

Metadata
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 334 381
Rank change year-on-year +18 +47 -55
Contract jobs citing Metadata 242 334 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.71% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 4.05% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 223 329
10th Percentile £400 £412 £313
25th Percentile £463 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £825 £713 £691
90th Percentile £925 £795 £763
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 7
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.00 £19.80
25th Percentile £16.50 £35.00 £20.12
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -41.06% +91.71%
75th Percentile £46.18 £64.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £47.38 £66.00 £76.80
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -7.14% -45.10% +48.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,409 8,241 13,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.09% 17.52% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,613 5,916 9,942
10th Percentile £350 £365 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 154 165
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%
75th Percentile £52.83 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.30 £82.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +25 149 £700 +14.29% 56
North of England +16 27 £625 +25.00% 6
South East -3 19 £550 +6.80% 12
North West +8 17 £525 +5.00% 5
South West -8 17 £604 +20.75% 2
Yorkshire +20 10 £800 +66.61%
Midlands +19 9 £700 +55.56% 5
East of England +3 8 £410 -8.89% 5
West Midlands +20 7 £775 +72.22% 5
East Midlands +7 2 £400 -23.81%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 27 (11.16%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.31%) Confluence
3 7 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.89%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (2.89%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.24%) Apache
5 3 (1.24%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.83%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Drupal
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.37%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.24%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 24 (9.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (2.07%) Relativity
3 3 (1.24%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (1.24%) NEC Housing
3 3 (1.24%) OPENHousing
3 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.83%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 42 (17.36%) Power Platform
2 37 (15.29%) Collibra
3 27 (11.16%) Azure
4 19 (7.85%) AWS
5 16 (6.61%) GCP
6 15 (6.20%) GitHub
7 12 (4.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (4.13%) Power Automate
9 9 (3.72%) PowerApps
10 7 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.65%) Alation
12 4 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.65%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.65%) Slack
13 3 (1.24%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.24%) Veeva
14 2 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.07%) WebEx
2 2 (0.83%) Firewall
3 1 (0.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (22.31%) NoSQL
2 49 (20.25%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (18.18%) Data Vault
3 44 (18.18%) Metadata Repository
4 42 (17.36%) SQL Server
5 41 (16.94%) Power BI
6 17 (7.02%) Data Lake
7 15 (6.20%) Relational Database
8 13 (5.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (4.96%) Big Data
9 12 (4.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (4.55%) BigQuery
10 11 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (3.31%) Pentaho
11 8 (3.31%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (3.31%) QlikView
12 7 (2.89%) PowerPivot
12 7 (2.89%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.48%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 13 (5.37%) JIRA
2 7 (2.89%) ERwin
3 6 (2.48%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.48%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.65%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.65%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.83%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) GCC
6 1 (0.41%) Git
6 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.41%) RStudio
General
1 74 (30.58%) Finance
2 54 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 50 (20.66%) Public Sector
4 30 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.40%) Manufacturing
5 25 (10.33%) Marketing
6 24 (9.92%) Electronics
6 24 (9.92%) Telecoms
7 23 (9.50%) Publishing
8 21 (8.68%) Banking
9 14 (5.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.89%) Retail
12 6 (2.48%) Law
12 6 (2.48%) Legal
13 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.24%) Public Speaking
13 3 (1.24%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 81 (33.47%) Architect
2 73 (30.17%) Data Architect
3 36 (14.88%) Analyst
4 31 (12.81%) Data Analyst
5 24 (9.92%) Chief Architect
5 24 (9.92%) Chief Data Architect
5 24 (9.92%) Data Engineer
6 17 (7.02%) Developer
7 14 (5.79%) Consultant
7 14 (5.79%) Governance Analyst
8 11 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
8 11 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 11 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
8 11 (4.55%) Senior
9 10 (4.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 10 (4.13%) Head of Architecture
9 10 (4.13%) Head of Data Architecture
9 10 (4.13%) Power BI Developer
10 9 (3.72%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.72%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.72%) CSS
1 9 (3.72%) HTML
2 3 (1.24%) .NET
3 2 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.83%) Kafka
3 2 (0.83%) PySpark
4 1 (0.41%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.41%) Flask
4 1 (0.41%) HTML5
4 1 (0.41%) JDBC
4 1 (0.41%) JSON
4 1 (0.41%) LangChain
4 1 (0.41%) Node.js
4 1 (0.41%) ODBC
4 1 (0.41%) REST
4 1 (0.41%) SPFx
4 1 (0.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (0.41%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.77%) Reference Data
2 20 (8.26%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.07%) Life Science
8 4 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.65%) Taxonomies
8 4 (1.65%) Wiki
9 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.24%) Derivative
9 3 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.24%) Lidar
10 2 (0.83%) Omics
11 1 (0.41%) FMCG
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmacovigilance
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.83%) Windows
1 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.41%) Linux
2 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (50.83%) Data Governance
2 110 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 83 (34.30%) Metadata Management
4 80 (33.06%) Business Intelligence
4 80 (33.06%) Data Architecture
5 73 (30.17%) Data Management
6 50 (20.66%) Data Lineage
7 46 (19.01%) ETL
8 45 (18.60%) Data Strategy
9 44 (18.18%) Data Integration
10 43 (17.77%) UML
11 40 (16.53%) Data Design
12 36 (14.88%) Data Analysis
13 29 (11.98%) Analytics
13 29 (11.98%) Programme Management
14 26 (10.74%) Visualisation
15 24 (9.92%) Digital Marketing
15 24 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 62 (25.62%) SQL
2 33 (13.64%) Python
3 20 (8.26%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.37%) T-SQL
5 11 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.31%) MATLAB
7 6 (2.48%) Groovy
7 6 (2.48%) Java
8 4 (1.65%) Go
8 4 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.83%) Bash
9 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.83%) R
9 2 (0.83%) VBA
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 59 (24.38%) Security Cleared
2 47 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.57%) Degree
4 10 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (19.83%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.02%) GDPR
3 7 (2.89%) QA
4 6 (2.48%) Good Clinical Practice
4 6 (2.48%) GxP
5 4 (1.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.83%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.83%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (2.89%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (2.48%) Terraform
3 5 (2.07%) EnCase
4 1 (0.41%) Kibana
4 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (13.64%) SAP
2 31 (12.81%) Sparx
3 26 (10.74%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.61%) Informatica
5 14 (5.79%) Oracle
6 12 (4.96%) Databricks
7 10 (4.13%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.31%) Remedy
9 7 (2.89%) Nexthink
9 7 (2.89%) VMware
10 6 (2.48%) Google
11 5 (2.07%) Nuix
11 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.07%) Snow
11 5 (2.07%) Talend
12 4 (1.65%) IBM
12 4 (1.65%) Okta
12 4 (1.65%) Splunk
12 4 (1.65%) Symantec
12 4 (1.65%) Varonis