Metadata Contracts in the North West

Metadata
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 118 126 175
Rank change year-on-year +8 +49 -44
Contract jobs citing Metadata 17 24 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.80% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.13% 4.94% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 5
10th Percentile £398 £450 £485
25th Percentile £431 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -28.28%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £738
90th Percentile £618 £615 £745
England median daily rate £650 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £25.81 - -
25th Percentile £37.63 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £43.22 £37.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% - -
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.50 -
90th Percentile - £58.20 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £36.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -41.06% +91.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 412 486 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.76% 16.14% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 356 538
10th Percentile £338 £325 £314
25th Percentile £401 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £631 £678 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 39
10th Percentile £22.83 £28.26 £13.47
25th Percentile £37.63 £35.00 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +88.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £54.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £66.75 £64.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the North West 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
Cheshire +1 7 £538 +19.44% 1
Lancashire - 6 - -
Manchester -6 4 £438 -12.50% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (41.18%) SharePoint
1 7 (41.18%) SharePoint 2010
1 7 (41.18%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP MDG
2 1 (5.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Collibra
2 1 (5.88%) dbt
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (41.18%) PowerPivot
2 7 (41.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Power View
4 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
4 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
5 2 (11.76%) Big Data
5 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.88%) Azkaban
6 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI
6 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
1 1 (5.88%) PyCharm
1 1 (5.88%) RStudio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Publishing
2 5 (29.41%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) SharePoint Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Governance Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Governance Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modeller
3 2 (11.76%) Governance Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Document Controller
4 1 (5.88%) Information Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) CSS
1 7 (41.18%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Reference Data
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Industry 4.0
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Metadata Management
2 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
3 6 (35.29%) Information Architecture
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Statistics
4 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
5 4 (23.53%) Conceptual Models
6 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
6 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
6 3 (17.65%) Data Science
6 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (11.76%) Data Management
7 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (11.76%) Information Management
7 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
4 3 (17.65%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) PhD
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (5.88%) GxP
3 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Sparx