Metadata Management Contracts in Central London

Metadata Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 129 168
Rank change year-on-year +12 +39 +18
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 7 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.21% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.23% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 11
10th Percentile £504 £461 £495
25th Percentile £541 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -12.40% -0.99%
75th Percentile £559 £639 £669
90th Percentile £644 £736 £1,000
London median daily rate £600 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,838 2,191 3,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.97% 90.54% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,560 2,352
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £801 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.20
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £30.41 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +19.30% -26.92% +6.12%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in Central London

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in Central London

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in Central London

Metadata Management
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 Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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 +2 7 £550 +0.46% 3
Metadata Management
London

Metadata Management
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 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Collibra
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Metadata
2 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (42.86%) Data Mining
3 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Police
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Governance Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Governance Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Governance
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Data Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Data Lineage
3 4 (57.14%) Data Management
3 4 (57.14%) Data Security
3 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
4 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Informatica
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx