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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 93 120
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Metadata 50 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.33% 1.46% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.12% 6.79% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 6
10th Percentile £400 £413 £469
25th Percentile £475 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £734
90th Percentile £775 £720 £794
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -14.63%

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 381 368 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.72% 21.52% 21.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 262 319
10th Percentile £351 £388 £411
25th Percentile £450 £434 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £582 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.08% -0.41%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £722
90th Percentile £775 £799 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £589
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £22.70 -
25th Percentile £19.25 £32.00 £36.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% -11.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £19.75 £63.75 £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.75 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -38.97% -15.00% -9.09%

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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 13 October 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 4 (8.00%) Apache
1 4 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) CMS
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) SAS
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP MDG
1 2 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Maximo
2 1 (2.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) Power Platform
3 11 (22.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (18.00%) AWS
6 8 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (16.00%) Collibra
7 5 (10.00%) Alation
7 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.00%) dbt
7 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Stack
8 4 (8.00%) SaaS
8 4 (8.00%) Serverless
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Databricks
9 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) Data Lake
2 12 (24.00%) Power BI
3 11 (22.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (8.00%) Data Hub
5 4 (8.00%) Star Schema
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.00%) Ataccama
7 2 (4.00%) Data Vault
7 2 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (4.00%) SAP BW
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) Tableau
8 1 (2.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
8 1 (2.00%) DataStage
8 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.00%) ERwin
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) MLflow
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Banking
4 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Marketing
6 3 (6.00%) Retail
7 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.00%) Legal
7 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.00%) Advertising
8 1 (2.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.00%) Billing
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Military
8 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Architect
2 12 (24.00%) Analyst
2 12 (24.00%) Data Architect
3 8 (16.00%) Data Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Data Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Lead
5 5 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Data Manager
6 4 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 4 (8.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
7 3 (6.00%) Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Business Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) PySpark
2 4 (8.00%) JSON
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
3 2 (4.00%) OAuth
3 2 (4.00%) REST
3 2 (4.00%) XML
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.00%) EDI
4 1 (2.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.00%) SAML
4 1 (2.00%) SOAP
4 1 (2.00%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.00%) XSLT
4 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.00%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.00%) FMCG
4 2 (4.00%) Taxonomies
5 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.00%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) PMI
5 1 (2.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (86.00%) Data Governance
2 30 (60.00%) Metadata Management
3 28 (56.00%) Data Modelling
4 25 (50.00%) Analytics
5 23 (46.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (36.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (34.00%) Data Architecture
7 17 (34.00%) Data Lineage
8 15 (30.00%) Agile
8 15 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (28.00%) Data Management
10 13 (26.00%) Data Engineering
11 12 (24.00%) DevOps
11 12 (24.00%) Migration
12 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
12 11 (22.00%) Integration Patterns
12 11 (22.00%) Roadmaps
13 10 (20.00%) AI
13 10 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.00%) SQL
2 12 (24.00%) Python
3 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (6.00%) Bicep
5 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) CBAP
5 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Databricks
2 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.00%) Informatica
4 4 (8.00%) SAP
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (4.00%) Talend
6 1 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.00%) OpenText
6 1 (2.00%) Palantir
6 1 (2.00%) Teradata