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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 105 104
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +23
Contract jobs citing Metadata 44 12 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.15% 0.65% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.02% 3.12% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 8 25
10th Percentile £319 £468 £455
25th Percentile £367 £483 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £588 £680
Median % change year-on-year -24.26% -13.60% +13.33%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £738
90th Percentile £741 £698 £925
Central London median daily rate £445 £588 £680
% change year-on-year -24.26% -13.60% +13.33%

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 366 385 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.87% 20.88% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 252 338
10th Percentile £338 £405 £413
25th Percentile £413 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £744 £756 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -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 7 March 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 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.55%) Confluence
1 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.27%) Maximo
2 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.36%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.09%) Serverless
6 3 (6.82%) Collibra
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.55%) dbt
7 2 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.55%) Textract
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Power BI
2 6 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.64%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (9.09%) Data Vault
3 4 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.82%) Tableau
5 2 (4.55%) Big Data
5 2 (4.55%) CockroachDB
5 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.55%) OLAP
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.27%) Looker
6 1 (2.27%) PowerCenter
6 1 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) ERwin
3 2 (4.55%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 18 (40.91%) Finance
2 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Banking
5 3 (6.82%) Aviation
5 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.55%) Publishing
7 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Legal
7 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Data Modeller
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Data Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 4 (9.09%) Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Configuration Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Data Governance Manager
6 1 (2.27%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) Information Governance Manager
6 1 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) PySpark
2 4 (9.09%) JSON
2 4 (9.09%) REST
2 4 (9.09%) XML
3 2 (4.55%) boto
3 2 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (4.55%) NumPy
3 2 (4.55%) Pandas
4 1 (2.27%) EDI
4 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.27%) HTML
4 1 (2.27%) Kafka
4 1 (2.27%) Middleware
4 1 (2.27%) pgvector
4 1 (2.27%) SOAP
4 1 (2.27%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.27%) XSLT
4 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Cloud Native
1 5 (11.36%) Data Structures
1 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.09%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.55%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.27%) FMCG
4 1 (2.27%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.27%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Data Modelling
2 19 (43.18%) Data Governance
2 19 (43.18%) Metadata Management
3 14 (31.82%) Analytics
4 13 (29.55%) ETL
5 12 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (22.73%) Data Integration
7 9 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (20.45%) Data Architecture
8 8 (18.18%) AI
8 8 (18.18%) Data Engineering
8 8 (18.18%) Data Lineage
8 8 (18.18%) Logical Data Model
9 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
9 7 (15.91%) Data Management
9 7 (15.91%) Physical Data Model
9 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.64%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (13.64%) Master Data Management
10 6 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (43.18%) SQL
2 15 (34.09%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) Apex Code
4 2 (4.55%) SOQL
5 1 (2.27%) C++
5 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) R
5 1 (2.27%) SOSL
5 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.09%) GDPR
3 3 (6.82%) Solvency II
4 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) Databricks
3 7 (15.91%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.82%) SAP
5 2 (4.55%) Informatica
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
5 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.55%) Sparx
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) IBM
6 1 (2.27%) Laserfiche
6 1 (2.27%) OpenText
6 1 (2.27%) Palantir
6 1 (2.27%) Teradata