Metadata Repository Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Metadata Repository
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Metadata Repository skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 123 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.056% 0.24% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.27% 1.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £702 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £754 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.64% - -
75th Percentile £806 £650 -
90th Percentile - £673 -
Central London median daily rate £754 £625 -
% change year-on-year +20.64% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

Metadata Repository falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 371 439 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.68% 20.87% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 303 350
10th Percentile £363 £405 £375
25th Percentile £425 £478 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £598
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +0.42% +0.42%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £773 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -6.62% -1.83% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

Metadata Repository
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Metadata Repository job vacancy trend in the City of London

Metadata Repository
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Metadata Repository
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 1 (100.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sparx