Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Metadata Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 127 150
Rank change year-on-year +18 +23 +45
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 14 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.74% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.37% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £412 £469 £445
25th Percentile £484 £488 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £734 £925
90th Percentile £712 £794 £940
London median daily rate £563 £550 £534
% change year-on-year +2.27% +3.00% -5.49%

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 1,774 2,166 2,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.96% 92.25% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 1,376 1,921
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 17
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.54 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%
75th Percentile £35.63 £70.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £122.20 £59.30
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% -8.38% +6.67%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in Central London over the 6 months to 13 October 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 13 October 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 +19 14 £550 -8.33% 5
Metadata Management
London

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (7.14%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (14.29%) Collibra
2 2 (14.29%) dbt
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Metadata
2 6 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 3 (21.43%) Data Mining
5 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 2 (14.29%) Power BI
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (7.14%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (7.14%) OLAP
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) ERwin
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Police
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Fabric
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.14%) Pricing Data
1 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Data Governance
2 9 (64.29%) Data Lineage
3 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 5 (35.71%) Analytics
4 5 (35.71%) Data Strategy
5 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 4 (28.57%) Data Management
5 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (28.57%) Data Security
5 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (21.43%) Data Science
6 3 (21.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Databricks
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Sparx