Metadata Contracts in the City of London

Metadata
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 119 161
Rank change year-on-year +19 +42 -29
Contract jobs citing Metadata 27 53 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.22% 1.45% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.53% 6.75% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 26
10th Percentile £461 £437 £406
25th Percentile £497 £481 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -9.09% -35.29%
75th Percentile £831 £650 £738
90th Percentile £925 £805 £886
Central London median daily rate £680 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +36.00% -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 488 785 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.05% 21.47% 22.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 491 717
10th Percentile £405 £415 £425
25th Percentile £475 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £701 £725 £700
90th Percentile £791 £788 £793
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +284.74%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +202.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the City of London

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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 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (22.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Collibra
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Alation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 5 (18.52%) Data Vault
3 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (11.11%) Power BI
5 2 (7.41%) Big Data
5 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.70%) OLAP
6 1 (3.70%) OLTP
6 1 (3.70%) PowerCenter
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
General
1 13 (48.15%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Banking
3 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Publishing
4 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.41%) Public Speaking
6 1 (3.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
1 9 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Data Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Governance Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Modeller
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Data Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Informatica Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Reference Data
2 4 (14.81%) Derivative
2 4 (14.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.41%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Data Modelling
2 15 (55.56%) Data Management
3 14 (51.85%) Data Governance
4 11 (40.74%) Data Lineage
5 9 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 7 (25.93%) Analytics
6 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (22.22%) Data Governance Strategy
7 6 (22.22%) Metadata Management
7 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (18.52%) Project Delivery
8 5 (18.52%) Release Management
8 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (18.52%) UML
9 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
10 3 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
10 3 (11.11%) Data Strategy
10 3 (11.11%) ETL
10 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Python
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) R
3 1 (3.70%) Scala
3 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Sparx
3 3 (11.11%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Okta
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Symantec
4 1 (3.70%) Talend
4 1 (3.70%) Varonis