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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 328 351
Rank change year-on-year +32 +23 -11
Contract jobs citing Metadata 292 419 665
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.74% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.00% 4.12% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 288 434
10th Percentile £391 £413 £355
25th Percentile £450 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £794 £700 £700
90th Percentile £925 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 7
10th Percentile £13.50 £26.25 £17.82
25th Percentile £16.50 £35.00 £39.13
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.63 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -46.02% +65.00%
75th Percentile £42.88 £63.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £76.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.97 £38.13 £14.55
% change year-on-year -45.00% +162.03% -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 7,304 10,170 17,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 17.86% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,238 12,433
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.08% +61.14% +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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata over the 6 months to 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +20 256 £600 +9.09% 126
London +38 156 £680 +8.80% 74
UK excluding London +15 105 £575 +15.00% 69
Work from Home +10 80 £500 -13.04% 70
North of England +28 28 £713 +42.50% 17
Scotland +45 21 £550 -6.78% 2
North West +12 19 £588 +17.50% 9
South East +2 17 £480 +5.49% 20
South West -8 17 £675 +35.00% 6
Midlands +28 13 £600 +33.33% 15
West Midlands +28 11 £650 +44.44% 14
Yorkshire +20 9 £800 +66.61% 5
East of England +2 9 £410 -8.89% 3
East Midlands +14 2 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales +16 1 - - 5

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 34 (11.64%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.74%) Confluence
3 8 (2.74%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (2.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.37%) CMS
6 3 (1.03%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.68%) Apache
8 1 (0.34%) Drupal
8 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (7.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.82%) MS Visio
3 9 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.03%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 24 (8.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (1.71%) Relativity
3 4 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.68%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 50 (17.12%) Collibra
2 45 (15.41%) Power Platform
3 34 (11.64%) Azure
4 22 (7.53%) AWS
4 22 (7.53%) GCP
5 19 (6.51%) GitHub
6 12 (4.11%) Power Automate
7 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (3.77%) PowerApps
8 10 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.05%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.71%) Alation
11 5 (1.71%) Serverless
11 5 (1.71%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.37%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.37%) Slack
13 3 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.71%) WebEx
2 4 (1.37%) Intranet
3 1 (0.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.84%) NoSQL
2 48 (16.44%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (15.41%) Data Vault
3 45 (15.41%) SQL Server
4 43 (14.73%) Metadata Repository
5 42 (14.38%) Power BI
6 17 (5.82%) Oracle Database
7 15 (5.14%) Big Data
8 14 (4.79%) BigQuery
8 14 (4.79%) Data Lake
9 12 (4.11%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (2.74%) Pentaho
12 8 (2.74%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (2.74%) QlikView
13 7 (2.40%) PowerPivot
13 7 (2.40%) RDBMS
14 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Power View
Development Applications
1 14 (4.79%) ERwin
2 12 (4.11%) JIRA
2 12 (4.11%) Oracle APEX
3 6 (2.05%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.05%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (1.37%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.68%) kappa
6 1 (0.34%) GCC
6 1 (0.34%) Git
6 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.34%) RStudio
General
1 86 (29.45%) Finance
2 62 (21.23%) Public Sector
2 62 (21.23%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (13.01%) Manufacturing
5 31 (10.62%) Marketing
6 30 (10.27%) Electronics
6 30 (10.27%) Telecoms
7 26 (8.90%) Publishing
8 24 (8.22%) Banking
9 15 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (4.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (4.45%) Retail
12 11 (3.77%) Legal
13 6 (2.05%) Law
14 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.68%) Automotive
16 2 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 92 (31.51%) Architect
2 81 (27.74%) Data Architect
3 38 (13.01%) Analyst
4 33 (11.30%) Data Analyst
5 26 (8.90%) Data Engineer
6 24 (8.22%) Chief Architect
6 24 (8.22%) Chief Data Architect
7 21 (7.19%) Senior
8 19 (6.51%) Integration Engineer
9 18 (6.16%) Developer
10 17 (5.82%) Enterprise Architect
10 17 (5.82%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 16 (5.48%) Governance Analyst
12 15 (5.14%) Consultant
13 11 (3.77%) Data Manager
14 10 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 10 (3.42%) Head of Architecture
14 10 (3.42%) Head of Data Architecture
14 10 (3.42%) Power BI Developer
15 9 (3.08%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.77%) CSS
1 11 (3.77%) HTML
2 4 (1.37%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (1.03%) .NET
3 3 (1.03%) SPFx
4 2 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (0.68%) JDBC
4 2 (0.68%) jQuery
4 2 (0.68%) Kafka
4 2 (0.68%) Node.js
4 2 (0.68%) ODBC
4 2 (0.68%) PySpark
4 2 (0.68%) REST
5 1 (0.34%) CAML
5 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.34%) HTML5
5 1 (0.34%) JSON
5 1 (0.34%) LDAP
5 1 (0.34%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.34%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.04%) Reference Data
2 19 (6.51%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.45%) Data Structures
3 13 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.77%) Taxonomies
6 10 (3.42%) Wiki
7 8 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.71%) Life Science
9 4 (1.37%) Derivative
9 4 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.03%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.03%) Lidar
11 2 (0.68%) Omics
12 1 (0.34%) Data Fabric
12 1 (0.34%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.71%) Linux
1 5 (1.71%) Unix
2 1 (0.34%) CentOS
2 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
2 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (53.42%) Data Governance
2 127 (43.49%) Data Modelling
3 100 (34.25%) Metadata Management
4 90 (30.82%) Data Architecture
5 86 (29.45%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (29.45%) Data Management
6 70 (23.97%) Data Lineage
7 62 (21.23%) Data Strategy
8 53 (18.15%) ETL
9 52 (17.81%) Data Integration
10 43 (14.73%) UML
11 39 (13.36%) Data Design
12 37 (12.67%) Data Analysis
13 35 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (11.64%) Programme Management
15 30 (10.27%) Analytics
15 30 (10.27%) Digital Marketing
16 26 (8.90%) Business Strategy
17 24 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 23 (7.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.71%) SQL
2 33 (11.30%) Python
3 19 (6.51%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.82%) PL/SQL
5 15 (5.14%) T-SQL
6 13 (4.45%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.40%) MATLAB
8 6 (2.05%) Groovy
8 6 (2.05%) Java
9 4 (1.37%) Go
9 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.68%) R
10 2 (0.68%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 63 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.47%) SC Cleared
3 45 (15.41%) Degree
4 12 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (21.92%) Data Quality
2 30 (10.27%) GDPR
3 9 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (2.40%) QA
5 6 (2.05%) Good Clinical Practice
5 6 (2.05%) GxP
6 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.68%) ISO 14001
7 2 (0.68%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.34%) GRC
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.08%) Terraform
2 7 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
3 5 (1.71%) EnCase
4 4 (1.37%) Data Guard
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.34%) Kibana
5 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 41 (14.04%) SAP
2 37 (12.67%) Sparx
3 34 (11.64%) Oracle
4 30 (10.27%) Microsoft
5 21 (7.19%) Informatica
6 13 (4.45%) Databricks
7 10 (3.42%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.40%) Google
8 7 (2.40%) Nexthink
8 7 (2.40%) Remedy
8 7 (2.40%) VMware
9 6 (2.05%) Talend
10 5 (1.71%) IBM
10 5 (1.71%) Nuix
10 5 (1.71%) Okta
10 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.71%) Snow
10 5 (1.71%) Symantec
10 5 (1.71%) Varonis
11 4 (1.37%) Splunk