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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 112 124
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 +44
Contract jobs citing Metadata 25 9 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.42% 0.43% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.81% 2.05% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 19
10th Percentile £353 £563 £443
25th Percentile £413 £613 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +1.63% +2.50%
75th Percentile £638 £719 £715
90th Percentile £750 £785 £825
Central London median daily rate £500 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -20.00% +1.63% +1.15%

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 367 438 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.84% 20.98% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 305 354
10th Percentile £363 £409 £375
25th Percentile £424 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £797
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +2.56%
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 18 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 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Maximo
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Collibra
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) dbt
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.00%) Alation
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (12.00%) Data Vault
2 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) DataStage
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) OLAP
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) ERwin
2 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Aviation
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.00%) Publishing
6 1 (4.00%) Back Office
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Data Modeller
3 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Information Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Information Governance Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Knowledge Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) JSON
1 3 (12.00%) XML
2 1 (4.00%) EDI
2 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Data Fabric
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.00%) FMCG
4 1 (4.00%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (4.00%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Pricing Data
4 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 15 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (52.00%) Metadata Management
3 10 (40.00%) Analytics
4 9 (36.00%) Data Architecture
5 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (24.00%) Data Lineage
6 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (20.00%) Data Management
7 5 (20.00%) Data Transformation
8 4 (16.00%) Agile
8 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
8 4 (16.00%) Data Security
8 4 (16.00%) ETL
8 4 (16.00%) Migration
9 3 (12.00%) Dimensional Modelling
9 3 (12.00%) Logical Data Model
9 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
9 3 (12.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.00%) C++
3 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) SOQL
3 1 (4.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.00%) Solvency II
3 1 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) Sparx
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Informatica
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Palantir
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow