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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 88 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Metadata 49 28 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.17% 1.60% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.13% 6.98% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 4
10th Percentile £381 £410 £461
25th Percentile £475 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £703
90th Percentile £775 £723 £731
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -20.00%

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 404 401 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.88% 22.90% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 265 320
10th Percentile £354 £400 £406
25th Percentile £462 £434 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £725
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 £36.75
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% -10.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 £38.50
% change year-on-year -25.59% -10.00% -12.50%

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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 15 September 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 5 (10.20%) Apache
2 4 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) SAP MDG
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Maximo
2 1 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) Azure
2 12 (24.49%) Power Platform
3 11 (22.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (20.41%) AWS
4 10 (20.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.29%) Collibra
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (10.20%) dbt
7 5 (10.20%) Serverless
8 4 (8.16%) Alation
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Stack
8 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (8.16%) SaaS
8 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Databricks
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (4.08%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (4.08%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Data Lake
2 11 (22.45%) Power BI
3 10 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (12.24%) Delta Lake
5 5 (10.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 5 (10.20%) Semantic Layer
6 4 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (8.16%) Data Hub
6 4 (8.16%) Star Schema
7 2 (4.08%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (4.08%) Ataccama
7 2 (4.08%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
7 2 (4.08%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (4.08%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (4.08%) SAP BW
7 2 (4.08%) Tableau
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) ERwin
2 1 (2.04%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.04%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) git-flow
2 1 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 22 (44.90%) Finance
2 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
3 13 (26.53%) Banking
4 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.16%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Retail
8 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.08%) Marketing
8 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.04%) Advertising
9 1 (2.04%) Billing
9 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Military
9 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Architect
2 12 (24.49%) Data Architect
3 11 (22.45%) Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Data Manager
7 3 (6.12%) Senior
8 2 (4.08%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Data Modeller
8 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 2 (4.08%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) SAP Business Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) PySpark
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
3 3 (6.12%) JSON
4 2 (4.08%) XML
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Avro
5 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.04%) EDI
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) OAuth
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) SAML
5 1 (2.04%) SOAP
5 1 (2.04%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
2 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.16%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.08%) FMCG
5 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) PMI
5 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) Data Governance
2 29 (59.18%) Metadata Management
3 25 (51.02%) Data Modelling
4 24 (48.98%) Analytics
5 20 (40.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (36.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (32.65%) Data Architecture
7 16 (32.65%) Data Lineage
8 14 (28.57%) Agile
8 14 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (28.57%) Data Management
9 13 (26.53%) CI/CD
9 13 (26.53%) Data Engineering
9 13 (26.53%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (26.53%) DevOps
10 12 (24.49%) Roadmaps
11 11 (22.45%) AI
11 11 (22.45%) Integration Patterns
11 11 (22.45%) Migration
12 10 (20.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) SQL
2 11 (22.45%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (6.12%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) CBAP
4 1 (2.04%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (59.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) QA
3 2 (4.08%) GDPR
4 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Grafana
1 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (38.78%) Databricks
2 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.29%) Informatica
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) IBM
5 2 (4.08%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.08%) Talend
6 1 (2.04%) OpenText
6 1 (2.04%) Palantir
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.04%) Sparx
6 1 (2.04%) Teradata