Metadata Contracts in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 95 125
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 +27
Contract jobs citing Metadata 21 26 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.21% 1.20% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.30% 5.43% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 15
10th Percentile £419 £458 £430
25th Percentile £473 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £680 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% +36.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £553 £925 £656
90th Percentile £669 - £870
Central London median daily rate £525 £680 £500
% change year-on-year -22.79% +36.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

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 396 479 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.73% 22.18% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 322 465
10th Percentile £406 £413 £413
25th Percentile £465 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £712 £730
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

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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 16 May 2025.

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 4 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (14.29%) SAS
3 1 (4.76%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Collibra
3 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
2 5 (23.81%) Delta Lake
3 4 (19.05%) Data Mining
3 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (14.29%) Base SAS
5 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Police
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) SAS Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Product Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) PySpark
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 14 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 11 (52.38%) Data Engineering
4 8 (38.10%) Analytics
4 8 (38.10%) Data Management
4 8 (38.10%) Metadata Management
5 7 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 7 (33.33%) ETL
6 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
6 6 (28.57%) Data Lineage
6 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 5 (23.81%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (23.81%) Data Security
7 5 (23.81%) Data Strategy
7 5 (23.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (19.05%) Data Science
9 3 (14.29%) Migration
9 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) Scala
4 2 (9.52%) PROC SQL
4 2 (9.52%) SAS Macro
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Informatica
2 6 (28.57%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Sparx