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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 105 100
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +32
Contract jobs citing Metadata 46 11 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.35% 0.60% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.26% 2.94% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 7 27
10th Percentile £323 £481 £458
25th Percentile £384 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £680
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -8.09% +13.33%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £726
90th Percentile £739 £718 £925
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £680
% change year-on-year -18.18% -19.12% +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 347 374 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.71% 20.41% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 243 345
10th Percentile £339 £405 £413
25th Percentile £413 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £713
90th Percentile £738 £775 £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 £40.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +44.41% -17.53% -42.32%

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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 21 February 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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.17%) Maximo
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) AWS
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Purview
3 6 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.52%) Collibra
5 3 (6.52%) Serverless
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.35%) dbt
6 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) Textract
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (13.04%) Power BI
3 5 (10.87%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (8.70%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.52%) Data Vault
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.35%) Big Data
6 2 (4.35%) CockroachDB
6 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) OLAP
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle OLAP
6 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.35%) Tableau
7 1 (2.17%) MySQL
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) ERwin
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) ER Studio
General
1 17 (36.96%) Finance
2 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Aviation
5 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Publishing
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Legal
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Data Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Data Modeller
3 6 (13.04%) Data Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Configuration Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Scrum Master
7 1 (2.17%) Data Governance Manager
7 1 (2.17%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Information Governance Manager
7 1 (2.17%) Metadata Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) JSON
1 4 (8.70%) PySpark
1 4 (8.70%) REST
1 4 (8.70%) XML
2 2 (4.35%) boto
2 2 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (4.35%) NumPy
2 2 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) EDI
3 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
3 1 (2.17%) pgvector
3 1 (2.17%) SOAP
3 1 (2.17%) Visualforce
3 1 (2.17%) XSLT
3 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.87%) Data Structures
1 5 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.70%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.35%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.17%) FMCG
4 1 (2.17%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.17%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Data Modelling
2 23 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 23 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 14 (30.43%) Analytics
4 13 (28.26%) ETL
5 11 (23.91%) Data Lineage
5 11 (23.91%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (21.74%) Data Architecture
6 10 (21.74%) Data Integration
7 8 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (17.39%) Logical Data Model
7 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.22%) Agile
8 7 (15.22%) AI
8 7 (15.22%) Data Engineering
8 7 (15.22%) Data Management
8 7 (15.22%) Physical Data Model
8 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.04%) Data Transformation
9 6 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) SQL
2 14 (30.43%) Python
3 3 (6.52%) Apex Code
4 2 (4.35%) SOQL
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) R
5 1 (2.17%) SOSL
5 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (45.65%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.70%) GDPR
3 3 (6.52%) Solvency II
4 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) Databricks
3 7 (15.22%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.52%) SAP
5 2 (4.35%) Informatica
5 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.35%) Sparx
6 1 (2.17%) Google
6 1 (2.17%) IBM
6 1 (2.17%) Laserfiche
6 1 (2.17%) OpenText
6 1 (2.17%) Palantir
6 1 (2.17%) Teradata