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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 100 112
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Metadata 42 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.79% 1.29% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.50% 5.66% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 5
10th Percentile £421 £413 £465
25th Percentile £520 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £741 £638 £750
90th Percentile £775 £725 £780
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 400 424 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.07% 22.83% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 279 330
10th Percentile £355 £403 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £689 £723
90th Percentile £763 £790 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.66 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £48.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.92% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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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 18 August 2026.

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 (4.76%) Apache
1 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.76%) Confluence
1 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP MDG
1 2 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) Maximo
2 1 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.38%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 9 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 7 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.90%) Collibra
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) Serverless
6 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (7.14%) dbt
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.76%) GCP
8 2 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 9 (21.43%) Power BI
3 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (9.52%) Delta Lake
5 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (7.14%) Tableau
6 2 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (4.76%) Data Hub
6 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.76%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.76%) SAP BW
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.76%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) ERwin
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) git-flow
2 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 21 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (26.19%) Banking
4 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Retail
7 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Marketing
7 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (2.38%) Military
8 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Analyst
2 12 (28.57%) Architect
3 9 (21.43%) Data Architect
4 8 (19.05%) Data Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Business Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Lead
6 4 (9.52%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Consultant
8 2 (4.76%) Data Manager
8 2 (4.76%) Data Modeller
8 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Knowledge Manager
8 2 (4.76%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) PySpark
2 2 (4.76%) JSON
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
2 2 (4.76%) XML
3 1 (2.38%) EDI
3 1 (2.38%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.76%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.76%) FMCG
3 2 (4.76%) Market Risk
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.38%) Derivative
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Data Governance
2 21 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 19 (45.24%) Metadata Management
4 18 (42.86%) Analytics
5 16 (38.10%) Data Lineage
6 15 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (33.33%) AI
8 13 (30.95%) Data Architecture
8 13 (30.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (23.81%) Agile
10 10 (23.81%) Data Management
11 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
11 9 (21.43%) Data Analysis
11 9 (21.43%) Data Engineering
11 9 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (21.43%) DevOps
11 9 (21.43%) Roadmaps
12 8 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (19.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 18 (42.86%) SQL
2 9 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Bicep
4 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) CBAP
4 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (45.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Databricks
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Informatica
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (4.76%) IBM
5 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.38%) OpenText
6 1 (2.38%) Palantir
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.38%) Sparx
6 1 (2.38%) Talend