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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 114 119
Rank change year-on-year +25 +5 +51
Contract jobs citing Metadata 29 10 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.61% 0.48% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.36% 2.30% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 18
10th Percentile £336 £481 £424
25th Percentile £409 £550 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £579
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.99% -3.54%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £683
90th Percentile £731 £785 £722
Central London median daily rate £500 £575 £579
% change year-on-year -13.04% -0.65% -3.54%

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 347 434 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.27% 20.93% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 282 346
10th Percentile £340 £408 £375
25th Percentile £420 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £586 £595
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -1.39% +0.76%
75th Percentile £675 £702 £699
90th Percentile £749 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £595
% change year-on-year -10.26% -1.68% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £32.10 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -32.74%
75th Percentile £49.88 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £58.20 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -32.74%

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 15 December 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 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
2 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (10.34%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (3.45%) Maximo
2 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.34%) Collibra
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.90%) dbt
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.45%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Power BI
2 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (10.34%) Data Vault
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.45%) DataStage
5 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.45%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.45%) OLAP
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (3.45%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) ERwin
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) ER Studio
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Postman
General
1 14 (48.28%) Finance
2 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Aviation
5 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.90%) Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Publishing
7 1 (3.45%) Back Office
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Analyst
1 6 (20.69%) Data Modeller
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Information Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Scrum Master
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) SharePoint Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) JSON
1 5 (17.24%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) EDI
2 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.45%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) XSLT
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.34%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.90%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (3.45%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.45%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Pricing Data
4 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Data Governance
1 18 (62.07%) Data Modelling
2 16 (55.17%) Metadata Management
3 12 (41.38%) Analytics
4 8 (27.59%) Data Architecture
4 8 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (20.69%) Data Lineage
6 6 (20.69%) ETL
7 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
7 5 (17.24%) Data Security
7 5 (17.24%) Data Transformation
7 5 (17.24%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (17.24%) Physical Data Model
7 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.79%) Agile
8 4 (13.79%) Data Management
8 4 (13.79%) Dimensional Modelling
8 4 (13.79%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.45%) C++
3 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) R
3 1 (3.45%) SOQL
3 1 (3.45%) SOSL
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) Solvency II
3 2 (6.90%) GDPR
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Sparx
4 2 (6.90%) Informatica
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Palantir
5 1 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Teradata