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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 98 100
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Metadata 51 18 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.24% 1.02% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.94% 4.59% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 13 20
10th Percentile £321 £393 £461
25th Percentile £364 £470 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £680
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -19.12% +36.00%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £831
90th Percentile £750 £698 £925
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £680
% change year-on-year -9.09% -19.12% +36.00%

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 394 392 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.33% 22.16% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 250 328
10th Percentile £338 £406 £405
25th Percentile £414 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% -0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £701
90th Percentile £748 £752 £791
Central London median daily rate £525 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -5.35% -3.54% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.37% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £93.47 -
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 27 April 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 (7.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.92%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.96%) Maximo
2 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 14 (27.45%) Azure
2 12 (23.53%) AWS
3 9 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 7 (13.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 6 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (9.80%) GCP
6 5 (9.80%) Serverless
7 4 (7.84%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (7.84%) Collibra
7 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.92%) GitHub
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Power BI
2 6 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (9.80%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (9.80%) Data Lake
3 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.84%) Data Vault
4 4 (7.84%) Metadata Repository
4 4 (7.84%) Tableau
5 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) Big Data
6 2 (3.92%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.92%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.96%) DataStage
7 1 (1.96%) OLAP
7 1 (1.96%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) ERwin
2 4 (7.84%) Git
3 2 (3.92%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.96%) git-flow
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.65%) Banking
4 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Aviation
5 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Legal
7 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Analyst
1 10 (19.61%) Data Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Architect
2 7 (13.73%) Data Architect
2 7 (13.73%) Data Modeller
3 5 (9.80%) Data Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 3 (5.88%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Knowledge Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Lead
6 2 (3.92%) Platform Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Salesforce Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) PySpark
1 5 (9.80%) XML
2 4 (7.84%) JSON
3 3 (5.88%) REST
4 2 (3.92%) boto
4 2 (3.92%) NumPy
4 2 (3.92%) Pandas
5 1 (1.96%) EDI
5 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.96%) HTML
5 1 (1.96%) Kafka
5 1 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.96%) Middleware
5 1 (1.96%) pgvector
5 1 (1.96%) SOAP
5 1 (1.96%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.96%) XSLT
5 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.80%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.84%) Reference Data
4 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.92%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.92%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.96%) Clustering
6 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.96%) Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) FMCG
6 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) Data Modelling
2 21 (41.18%) Data Governance
3 20 (39.22%) Metadata Management
4 15 (29.41%) Analytics
5 14 (27.45%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (25.49%) ETL
7 12 (23.53%) AI
8 11 (21.57%) Data Lineage
8 11 (21.57%) Logical Data Model
9 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
9 10 (19.61%) Data Engineering
9 10 (19.61%) Data Integration
9 10 (19.61%) Physical Data Model
10 9 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (17.65%) Data Architecture
10 9 (17.65%) Data Management
11 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (15.69%) Validation
12 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) SQL
2 16 (31.37%) Python
3 3 (5.88%) Apex Code
4 2 (3.92%) Bicep
5 1 (1.96%) C++
5 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) R
5 1 (1.96%) SOQL
5 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (37.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.88%) GDPR
2 3 (5.88%) Solvency II
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) Databricks
3 7 (13.73%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle
4 3 (5.88%) SAP
4 3 (5.88%) Sparx
5 2 (3.92%) IBM
5 2 (3.92%) Informatica
5 2 (3.92%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) Laserfiche
6 1 (1.96%) OpenText
6 1 (1.96%) Palantir
6 1 (1.96%) Teradata