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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 118 124
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 +46
Contract jobs citing Metadata 25 9 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.43% 0.42% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.78% 2.05% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 20
10th Percentile £353 £563 £453
25th Percentile £413 £613 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -3.77% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £719 £719
90th Percentile £750 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £500 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -20.00% -3.77% +6.83%

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 369 440 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.04% 20.73% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 308 365
10th Percentile £363 £406 £375
25th Percentile £425 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £704
90th Percentile £775 £825 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% +2.35%
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%

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 15 November 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 2 (8.00%) Confluence
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Maximo
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Collibra
4 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (8.00%) dbt
6 2 (8.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) Alation
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Data Vault
2 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) DataStage
3 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) OLAP
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) ERwin
2 1 (4.00%) Postman
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Aviation
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.00%) Publishing
6 1 (4.00%) Back Office
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Data Modeller
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Information Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (4.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) JSON
1 3 (12.00%) XML
2 1 (4.00%) EDI
2 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Data Fabric
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.00%) FMCG
3 1 (4.00%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (4.00%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Pricing Data
3 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Data Governance
2 15 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 13 (52.00%) Metadata Management
4 9 (36.00%) Analytics
4 9 (36.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (24.00%) Data Lineage
5 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.00%) Data Management
6 5 (20.00%) ETL
7 4 (16.00%) Agile
7 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
7 4 (16.00%) Data Security
7 4 (16.00%) Data Transformation
7 4 (16.00%) Migration
8 3 (12.00%) Data Ingestion
8 3 (12.00%) Data Strategy
8 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
8 3 (12.00%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.00%) C++
3 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) Scala
3 1 (4.00%) SOQL
3 1 (4.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (44.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) GDPR
3 2 (8.00%) Solvency II
4 1 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Databricks
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Informatica
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.00%) Sparx
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Palantir
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow