Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Metadata Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 104 123 138
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +53
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 14 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.82% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.41% 0.39%
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
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -0.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,613 1,951 2,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.33% 92.07% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,209 1,783
10th Percentile £325 £367 £373
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £768 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £24.09 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £40.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +29.60% -27.53%
75th Percentile £35.88 £107.13 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Metadata Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in the City of London

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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