Metadata Contracts in Central London

Metadata
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 126 168
Rank change year-on-year +20 +42 -16
Contract jobs citing Metadata 26 50 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.07% 1.33% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.91% 6.31% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 24
10th Percentile £458 £433 £404
25th Percentile £500 £480 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £925 £653 £729
90th Percentile - £838 £914
London median daily rate £680 £625 £550
% change year-on-year +8.80% +13.64% -9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
London median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £65.75
% change year-on-year -35.71% -46.77% +101.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 530 792 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.86% 21.00% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 513 749
10th Percentile £411 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £789 £788 £800
London median daily rate £563 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +332.14%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
London median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £55.20
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.35% +58.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
City of London +21 26 £680 +23.64% 5
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (19.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (23.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Collibra
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Alation
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 5 (19.23%) Data Vault
3 3 (11.54%) Big Data
3 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.85%) OLAP
5 1 (3.85%) OLTP
5 1 (3.85%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 14 (53.85%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Publishing
4 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Public Speaking
6 1 (3.85%) Advertising
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Analyst
1 10 (38.46%) Data Analyst
2 9 (34.62%) Governance Analyst
3 7 (26.92%) Architect
3 7 (26.92%) Data Architect
4 5 (19.23%) Operations Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Data Modeller
7 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Reference Data
2 4 (15.38%) Derivative
2 4 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.69%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Data Management
2 14 (53.85%) Data Governance
2 14 (53.85%) Data Modelling
3 11 (42.31%) Data Lineage
4 7 (26.92%) Data Architecture
4 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (23.08%) Data Governance Strategy
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Metadata Management
6 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
6 5 (19.23%) Release Management
6 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (19.23%) UML
7 4 (15.38%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 3 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (11.54%) Agile
8 3 (11.54%) Data Transformation
8 3 (11.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Python
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (7.69%) VBA
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Sparx
3 2 (7.69%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Okta
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) Symantec
4 1 (3.85%) Talend
4 1 (3.85%) Varonis