Metadata Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 117 131
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 +49
Contract jobs citing Metadata 28 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.59% 0.48% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.95% 2.24% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 4 13
10th Percentile £410 £461 £499
25th Percentile £475 £478 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +15.63%
75th Percentile £638 £703 £730
90th Percentile £723 £731 £900
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +10.00% -20.00% +9.60%

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 403 447 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.91% 21.60% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 319 421
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £438 £489 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +0.42%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £790
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Metadata as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata 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 16 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.71%) SAS
3 2 (7.14%) Confluence
4 1 (3.57%) Apache
4 1 (3.57%) CMS
4 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Collibra
3 9 (32.14%) AWS
4 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.14%) dbt
6 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.57%) Alation
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (17.86%) Delta Lake
3 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
4 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
5 3 (10.71%) Base SAS
6 2 (7.14%) Power BI
7 1 (3.57%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.57%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) ERwin
2 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Police
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Governance Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Governance Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) SAS Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Scrum Master
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Data Quality Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Knowledge Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Kafka
2 3 (10.71%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Pricing Data
2 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Data Governance
2 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
3 14 (50.00%) Metadata Management
4 12 (42.86%) Data Lineage
5 10 (35.71%) Data Engineering
5 10 (35.71%) Data Management
6 9 (32.14%) Analytics
7 8 (28.57%) Data Architecture
8 7 (25.00%) Data Strategy
8 7 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 7 (25.00%) ETL
9 6 (21.43%) Data Integration
9 6 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (21.43%) Data Security
9 6 (21.43%) Migration
9 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (17.86%) Data Ingestion
10 5 (17.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (14.29%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) Scala
4 2 (7.14%) PROC SQL
4 2 (7.14%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Databricks
2 6 (21.43%) Informatica
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Sparx
5 1 (3.57%) Google