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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 97 111
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Metadata 43 27 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.78% 1.44% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.78% 6.11% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 9
10th Percentile £361 £418 £480
25th Percentile £491 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £748 £638 £925
90th Percentile £780 £724 -
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +7.69%

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 399 442 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.49% 23.52% 22.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 296 335
10th Percentile £350 £404 £400
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £577 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -3.84% -0.08%
75th Percentile £668 £695 £719
90th Percentile £763 £775 £795
Central London median daily rate £555 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -2.63% -0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +0.15% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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 20 July 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 3 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Maximo
1 1 (2.33%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (2.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) Azure
2 9 (20.93%) AWS
3 8 (18.60%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.63%) Snowflake
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (9.30%) Collibra
6 4 (9.30%) dbt
6 4 (9.30%) GCP
6 4 (9.30%) Serverless
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.65%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Data Lake
2 7 (16.28%) Power BI
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.98%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (6.98%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (6.98%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (6.98%) Tableau
5 2 (4.65%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.65%) Big Data
5 2 (4.65%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.65%) Delta Lake
5 2 (4.65%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.33%) DataStage
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) SAP BW
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) ERwin
1 3 (6.98%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.33%) git-flow
General
1 20 (46.51%) Finance
2 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Banking
4 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Military
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Architect
2 11 (25.58%) Data Architect
3 10 (23.26%) Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Data Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Data Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Business Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) Senior
7 3 (6.98%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Data Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Data Modeller
8 2 (4.65%) Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Knowledge Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Platform Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) PySpark
2 2 (4.65%) JSON
2 2 (4.65%) Kafka
2 2 (4.65%) XML
3 1 (2.33%) EDI
3 1 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.33%) Visualforce
3 1 (2.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.65%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.65%) Market Risk
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.33%) Clustering
5 1 (2.33%) Derivative
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.33%) FMCG
5 1 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Data Governance
2 22 (51.16%) Data Modelling
3 15 (34.88%) Analytics
3 15 (34.88%) Metadata Management
4 13 (30.23%) AI
4 13 (30.23%) Data Architecture
5 12 (27.91%) Data Lineage
6 10 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (23.26%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (20.93%) Agile
7 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
7 9 (20.93%) Data Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Data Management
7 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
7 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (18.60%) Data Integration
8 8 (18.60%) Use Case
9 7 (16.28%) Data Analysis
9 7 (16.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) SQL
2 10 (23.26%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) Apex Code
4 2 (4.65%) Bicep
5 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.33%) SOQL
5 1 (2.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CBAP
5 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (39.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) QA
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Databricks
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.98%) Informatica
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) IBM
5 2 (4.65%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.33%) Palantir
6 1 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) Sparx
6 1 (2.33%) Talend