Metadata Contracts in London

Metadata
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 277 295
Rank change year-on-year +29 +18 -25
Contract jobs citing Metadata 149 232 355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.86% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 4.17% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 153 250
10th Percentile £400 £413 £325
25th Percentile £422 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% +13.64% -11.79%
75th Percentile £900 £738 £725
90th Percentile £925 £870 £763
England median daily rate £619 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £23.25 - £31.48
25th Percentile £26.25 - £48.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -46.77% +101.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 - £75.00
90th Percentile £41.75 - -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £36.25 £65.75
% change year-on-year -24.14% -44.87% +104.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,788 5,567 8,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.39% 20.56% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,060 6,259
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £457 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 54 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.94 £32.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - +44.07%
75th Percentile £54.34 £73.44 £71.88
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.30 £82.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Metadata in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Metadata in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +14 28 £680 +36.00% 3
East London - 2 £495 - 1
West London - 1 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (10.74%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (11.41%) MS Visio
2 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (5.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.67%) Revit
Business Applications
1 24 (16.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.36%) Relativity
3 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.67%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.67%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.67%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.67%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.82%) Collibra
2 23 (15.44%) Azure
3 22 (14.77%) Power Platform
4 17 (11.41%) AWS
5 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (4.70%) GCP
7 6 (4.03%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.03%) PowerApps
8 5 (3.36%) Alation
8 5 (3.36%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.68%) GitHub
9 4 (2.68%) Slack
10 2 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.34%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.67%) Serverless
11 1 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) WebEx
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (34.23%) NoSQL
2 42 (28.19%) Data Vault
3 30 (20.13%) Metadata Repository
4 25 (16.78%) SQL Server
5 21 (14.09%) Power BI
6 13 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.37%) Pentaho
8 8 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.37%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (5.37%) QlikView
9 7 (4.70%) Big Data
9 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.03%) Data Lake
11 5 (3.36%) EDRMS
12 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.68%) Tableau
13 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.01%) PowerCenter
14 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (6.71%) ERwin
2 6 (4.03%) JIRA
3 4 (2.68%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (2.68%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.34%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.34%) Git
5 1 (0.67%) GCC
General
1 61 (40.94%) Finance
2 31 (20.81%) Public Sector
3 28 (18.79%) Social Skills
4 26 (17.45%) Electronics
4 26 (17.45%) Manufacturing
4 26 (17.45%) Marketing
4 26 (17.45%) Telecoms
5 19 (12.75%) Banking
6 18 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (10.07%) Publishing
8 9 (6.04%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (6.04%) Retail
9 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.01%) Legal
10 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.34%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
11 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 61 (40.94%) Architect
2 57 (38.26%) Data Architect
3 23 (15.44%) Chief Architect
3 23 (15.44%) Chief Data Architect
4 20 (13.42%) Analyst
5 19 (12.75%) Integration Engineer
6 17 (11.41%) Data Analyst
7 14 (9.40%) Governance Analyst
8 12 (8.05%) Enterprise Architect
8 12 (8.05%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 11 (7.38%) Developer
10 10 (6.71%) Consultant
11 9 (6.04%) Head of Architecture
11 9 (6.04%) Head of Data Architecture
12 7 (4.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 7 (4.70%) Data Modeller
12 7 (4.70%) Power BI Developer
13 6 (4.03%) Senior
14 5 (3.36%) Automation Developer
14 5 (3.36%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.34%) .NET
1 2 (1.34%) REST
2 1 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.67%) CSS
2 1 (0.67%) HTML
2 1 (0.67%) Kafka
2 1 (0.67%) Middleware
2 1 (0.67%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.83%) Reference Data
2 12 (8.05%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.37%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.70%) Wiki
5 4 (2.68%) Derivative
5 4 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.01%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Life Science
8 1 (0.67%) CMDB
8 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.34%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (63.09%) Data Governance
2 82 (55.03%) Data Modelling
3 64 (42.95%) Data Architecture
4 53 (35.57%) Data Lineage
5 50 (33.56%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (31.54%) Metadata Management
7 45 (30.20%) Data Integration
8 42 (28.19%) Data Management
8 42 (28.19%) UML
9 41 (27.52%) Data Strategy
10 38 (25.50%) ETL
11 30 (20.13%) Data Design
12 28 (18.79%) Programme Management
13 26 (17.45%) Digital Marketing
14 23 (15.44%) Business Strategy
15 18 (12.08%) Analytics
16 17 (11.41%) Data Analysis
16 17 (11.41%) Project Delivery
17 15 (10.07%) Visualisation
18 14 (9.40%) Data Governance Strategy
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.49%) SQL
2 16 (10.74%) T-SQL
3 9 (6.04%) Python
4 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.36%) MATLAB
5 4 (2.68%) Go
5 4 (2.68%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.34%) R
8 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (26.85%) SC Cleared
1 40 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.05%) Degree
3 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.16%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.71%) GDPR
3 3 (2.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.67%) GRC
4 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.36%) EnCase
2 1 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 32 (21.48%) Sparx
2 31 (20.81%) SAP
3 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
4 19 (12.75%) Informatica
5 17 (11.41%) Oracle
6 9 (6.04%) Databricks
6 9 (6.04%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.03%) Talend
8 5 (3.36%) Nuix
8 5 (3.36%) Okta
8 5 (3.36%) Symantec
8 5 (3.36%) Varonis
9 4 (2.68%) IBM
9 4 (2.68%) Splunk
10 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.67%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.67%) Google
11 1 (0.67%) NEC
11 1 (0.67%) Northgate