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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 110 114
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +43
Contract jobs citing Metadata 32 10 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.74% 0.49% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.12% 2.40% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 7 18
10th Percentile £313 £481 £424
25th Percentile £391 £550 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £625 £579
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +7.99% +5.23%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £683
90th Percentile £725 £785 £722
Central London median daily rate £473 £575 £579
% change year-on-year -17.83% -0.65% -3.54%

All Database & BI 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 351 416 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.07% 20.46% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 269 345
10th Percentile £334 £407 £385
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £696 £700
90th Percentile £749 £803 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £35.38 - -
25th Percentile £39.69 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% +1.32% -49.42%
75th Percentile £56.69 £40.25 -
90th Percentile £60.93 - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -49.42%

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 31 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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (3.13%) Maximo
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.25%) Collibra
5 2 (6.25%) dbt
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Textract
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
1 4 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (9.38%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.25%) CockroachDB
3 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) DataStage
4 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) OLAP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (3.13%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) ERwin
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) ER Studio
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Postman
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Aviation
5 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.25%) Publishing
7 1 (3.13%) Back Office
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Data Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Data Modeller
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Information Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Scrum Master
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Configuration Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Data Governance Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Governance Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Information Governance Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) SharePoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) JSON
1 5 (15.63%) XML
2 3 (9.38%) PySpark
2 3 (9.38%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) boto
3 2 (6.25%) NumPy
3 2 (6.25%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) EDI
4 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) pgvector
4 1 (3.13%) XSLT
4 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Structures
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.25%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.13%) FMCG
4 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Pricing Data
4 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Data Governance
1 18 (56.25%) Data Modelling
1 18 (56.25%) Metadata Management
2 12 (37.50%) Analytics
3 9 (28.13%) ETL
4 8 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (21.88%) Data Architecture
5 7 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
6 6 (18.75%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.63%) Data Transformation
7 5 (15.63%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (15.63%) Master Data Management
7 5 (15.63%) Physical Data Model
7 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 10 (31.25%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.13%) C++
3 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) R
3 1 (3.13%) SOQL
3 1 (3.13%) SOSL
3 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) Solvency II
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) SAP
4 2 (6.25%) Informatica
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) Sparx
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) Palantir
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Teradata