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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 90 102
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Metadata 48 22 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.07% 1.31% 1.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.34% 5.82% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 17 17
10th Percentile £338 £428 £458
25th Percentile £400 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £680
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -19.12% +13.33%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £925
90th Percentile £743 £718 -
Central London median daily rate £533 £550 £680
% change year-on-year -3.18% -19.12% +13.33%

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 389 378 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.74% 22.53% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 243 327
10th Percentile £333 £406 £404
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £689 £710
90th Percentile £749 £763 £793
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.37% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £93.47 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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 25 May 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 3 (6.25%) Confluence
1 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.17%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.08%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
4 7 (14.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.50%) Serverless
6 5 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (8.33%) Collibra
7 4 (8.33%) GCP
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (6.25%) dbt
8 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.17%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Power BI
2 6 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (10.42%) Data Lake
3 5 (10.42%) Metadata Repository
4 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.33%) Tableau
5 3 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (4.17%) CockroachDB
6 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
6 2 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.08%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.08%) MySQL
7 1 (2.08%) OLAP
7 1 (2.08%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) ERwin
2 3 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) ER Studio
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) git-flow
General
1 23 (47.92%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.92%) Banking
4 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Architect
2 8 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 8 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Data Modeller
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Senior
5 3 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Knowledge Manager
6 2 (4.17%) Salesforce Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) PySpark
2 3 (6.25%) REST
2 3 (6.25%) XML
3 2 (4.17%) boto
3 2 (4.17%) JSON
3 2 (4.17%) Kafka
3 2 (4.17%) NumPy
3 2 (4.17%) Pandas
4 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.08%) HTML
4 1 (2.08%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.08%) Middleware
4 1 (2.08%) pgvector
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
4 1 (2.08%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.08%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Reference Data
2 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.17%) Market Risk
4 2 (4.17%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Data Governance
2 21 (43.75%) Data Modelling
3 19 (39.58%) Metadata Management
4 13 (27.08%) Analytics
4 13 (27.08%) Data Lineage
4 13 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (25.00%) AI
6 11 (22.92%) Data Management
7 10 (20.83%) Data Engineering
7 10 (20.83%) ETL
7 10 (20.83%) Logical Data Model
8 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 9 (18.75%) Data Architecture
8 9 (18.75%) Physical Data Model
8 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (16.67%) Validation
10 7 (14.58%) Agile
10 7 (14.58%) Data Integration
11 6 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) SQL
2 16 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) Apex Code
4 2 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.08%) SOQL
5 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) CBAP
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (39.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (2.08%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) Databricks
3 6 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) Sparx
5 2 (4.17%) Informatica
5 2 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.17%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) IBM
6 1 (2.08%) Laserfiche
6 1 (2.08%) OpenText
6 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Teradata