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

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 115 134
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 +45
Contract jobs citing Metadata 24 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.40% 0.52% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.50% 2.43% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 14
10th Percentile £412 £469 £396
25th Percentile £469 £488 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £605
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £734 £723
90th Percentile £723 £794 £888
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £605
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.22% -1.79%

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 369 453 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.52% 21.36% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 323 365
10th Percentile £391 £408 £400
25th Percentile £443 £478 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £688 £719 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +3.85%
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%

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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 17 October 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 3 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Collibra
4 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.33%) dbt
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.17%) Alation
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
6 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) Data Lake
3 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (12.50%) Data Mining
4 3 (12.50%) Delta Lake
5 2 (8.33%) Power BI
6 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.17%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (4.17%) OLAP
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) ERwin
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Police
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.33%) Publishing
6 1 (4.17%) Back Office
6 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Information Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Governance Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Information Governance Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (4.17%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (4.17%) Pricing Data
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Data Governance
2 14 (58.33%) Data Modelling
3 13 (54.17%) Metadata Management
4 10 (41.67%) Data Lineage
5 9 (37.50%) Data Management
6 8 (33.33%) Analytics
6 8 (33.33%) Data Architecture
7 7 (29.17%) Data Engineering
8 6 (25.00%) Data Strategy
9 5 (20.83%) Agile
9 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
9 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
10 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
10 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (16.67%) Data Security
10 4 (16.67%) ETL
11 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) SOQL
4 1 (4.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) Informatica
4 2 (8.33%) Sparx
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce