Metadata Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Metadata
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 114 119
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +57
Contract jobs citing Metadata 26 9 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.49% 0.43% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.05% 2.04% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 20
10th Percentile £404 £563 £453
25th Percentile £422 £613 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.77% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £719 £719
90th Percentile £712 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £500 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.77% +8.25%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

Metadata 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 369 442 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.21% 20.88% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 310 367
10th Percentile £379 £412 £400
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.08% +3.85%
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
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Visio
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Collibra
3 6 (23.08%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) dbt
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Alation
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Data Lake
2 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) Delta Lake
4 2 (7.69%) Data Vault
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.85%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.85%) DataStage
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (3.85%) OLAP
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) ERwin
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Postman
General
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
4 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.69%) Aviation
6 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.69%) Publishing
7 1 (3.85%) Back Office
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Police
7 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Data Modeller
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Information Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Scrum Master
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Governance Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Information Governance Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Knowledge Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) PySpark
2 2 (7.69%) JSON
2 2 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) EDI
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (3.85%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (3.85%) Pricing Data
3 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Data Governance
2 15 (57.69%) Data Modelling
3 11 (42.31%) Metadata Management
4 10 (38.46%) Data Architecture
5 8 (30.77%) Analytics
5 8 (30.77%) Data Lineage
6 7 (26.92%) Data Management
6 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (19.23%) Agile
7 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) ETL
7 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
8 4 (15.38%) Data Strategy
8 4 (15.38%) Migration
9 3 (11.54%) Data Integration
9 3 (11.54%) Data Security
9 3 (11.54%) Data Transformation
9 3 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) SOQL
4 1 (3.85%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) Solvency II
3 1 (3.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Databricks
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Informatica
3 2 (7.69%) Sparx
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Palantir
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow