Metadata Contracts with Work from Home Options

Metadata
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 288 313
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 -17
Contract jobs citing Metadata 71 167 352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.70% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.46% 3.72% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 129 239
10th Percentile £355 £413 £363
25th Percentile £400 £475 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £22.73 £17.50 £19.80
25th Percentile £28.31 £28.75 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.25 £62.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.60% -5.30% +55.29%
75th Percentile £42.88 £66.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,887 4,484 9,345
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.68% 18.79% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,115 3,285 6,832
10th Percentile £356 £387 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 79 85
10th Percentile £18.00 £24.08 £19.00
25th Percentile £21.88 £42.63 £21.17
Median hourly rate £37.75 £66.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +38.95% +58.33%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.90%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Metadata trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata.

Metadata daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Metadata over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Metadata daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Metadata.

Metadata hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Metadata over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Metadata hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (12.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.63%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (4.23%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (2.82%) CMS
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.41%) Confluence
6 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) MIS ActiveH
1 3 (4.23%) NEC Housing
1 3 (4.23%) OPENHousing
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) Collibra
2 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
3 8 (11.27%) GCP
3 8 (11.27%) GitHub
4 6 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.04%) Azure
6 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.23%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.23%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.82%) AWS
7 2 (2.82%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.82%) Veeva
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.41%) Vertex AI
8 1 (1.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) Data Warehouse
1 16 (22.54%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.27%) Power BI
3 7 (9.86%) BigQuery
3 7 (9.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (8.45%) Data Lake
5 5 (7.04%) Metadata Repository
5 5 (7.04%) Oracle Database
5 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.23%) Data Mining
7 3 (4.23%) PowerPivot
8 2 (2.82%) Big Data
8 2 (2.82%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.82%) EDMS
8 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Power View
9 1 (1.41%) Azkaban
9 1 (1.41%) OLTP
9 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (1.41%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) ERwin
1 4 (5.63%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (4.23%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) RStudio
General
1 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Finance
4 10 (14.08%) Banking
4 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
5 9 (12.68%) Legal
6 6 (8.45%) Retail
7 5 (7.04%) Manufacturing
7 5 (7.04%) Publishing
8 3 (4.23%) Electronics
8 3 (4.23%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.23%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.23%) Marketing
8 3 (4.23%) Public Speaking
8 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.41%) Advertising
10 1 (1.41%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Data Engineer
2 13 (18.31%) Architect
3 9 (12.68%) Data Architect
4 8 (11.27%) Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.04%) Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Governance Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Senior
7 3 (4.23%) Administrator
7 3 (4.23%) Data Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.23%) SharePoint Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Technical Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Technical Project Manager
8 2 (2.82%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Consultant
8 2 (2.82%) Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) CSS
1 4 (5.63%) HTML
2 2 (2.82%) .NET
2 2 (2.82%) REST
3 1 (1.41%) CAML
3 1 (1.41%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
3 1 (1.41%) Kafka
3 1 (1.41%) LangChain
3 1 (1.41%) LDAP
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (1.41%) PySpark
3 1 (1.41%) SPFx
3 1 (1.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.41%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.63%) Wiki
4 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.82%) Life Science
5 2 (2.82%) Omics
6 1 (1.41%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.41%) FMCG
6 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) CentOS
2 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (46.48%) Data Governance
2 32 (45.07%) Metadata Management
3 29 (40.85%) Data Management
4 24 (33.80%) Data Modelling
5 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (19.72%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (19.72%) Data Lineage
6 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (16.90%) ETL
8 11 (15.49%) CI/CD
9 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (14.08%) Project Management
10 9 (12.68%) Computer Science
10 9 (12.68%) Data Analysis
10 9 (12.68%) Data Architecture
10 9 (12.68%) Data Protection
10 9 (12.68%) Information Management
10 9 (12.68%) Migration
11 8 (11.27%) Quality Management
11 8 (11.27%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) SQL
2 12 (16.90%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) PL/SQL
4 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.41%) R
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Degree
2 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (30.99%) Data Quality
2 11 (15.49%) GDPR
3 7 (9.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (4.23%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.41%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Terraform
2 4 (5.63%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.41%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) Sparx
4 4 (5.63%) Nexthink
4 4 (5.63%) SAP
4 4 (5.63%) Snow
5 3 (4.23%) NEC
5 3 (4.23%) Northgate
5 3 (4.23%) VMware
6 2 (2.82%) Databricks
6 2 (2.82%) Informatica
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.41%) Red Hat