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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 92 107
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing Metadata 45 24 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.86% 1.39% 0.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.39% 6.03% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 13
10th Percentile £338 £445 £490
25th Percentile £377 £475 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £680
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -19.12% +9.68%
75th Percentile £643 £631 £925
90th Percentile £765 £730 -
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £680
% change year-on-year -6.82% -19.12% +9.68%

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 395 398 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.31% 23.06% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 265 347
10th Percentile £350 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £712
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £21.94 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £30.09 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £48.58 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.99% +0.15% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £72.81 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £89.13 -
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 22 June 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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.44%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Maximo
1 1 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (2.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) Amazon S3
3 7 (15.56%) Power Platform
4 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (13.33%) Serverless
5 5 (11.11%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (6.67%) Collibra
7 3 (6.67%) dbt
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.44%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (13.33%) Data Lake
1 6 (13.33%) Power BI
2 4 (8.89%) Tableau
3 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.67%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (4.44%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.44%) Big Data
4 2 (4.44%) CockroachDB
4 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.44%) Data Vault
4 2 (4.44%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.22%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.22%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) ERwin
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.22%) git-flow
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Banking
3 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Architect
2 9 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Data Modeller
6 3 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Configuration Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Knowledge Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) Platform Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Salesforce Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) PySpark
2 3 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) boto
3 2 (4.44%) Kafka
3 2 (4.44%) NumPy
3 2 (4.44%) Pandas
3 2 (4.44%) XML
4 1 (2.22%) EDI
4 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.22%) HTML
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) pgvector
4 1 (2.22%) SOAP
4 1 (2.22%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.22%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.89%) Data Structures
1 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.44%) Market Risk
3 2 (4.44%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.44%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Derivative
4 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Data Governance
2 18 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 13 (28.89%) AI
3 13 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (28.89%) Metadata Management
4 11 (24.44%) Analytics
4 11 (24.44%) Data Architecture
4 11 (24.44%) Data Lineage
5 10 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 9 (20.00%) Data Management
6 9 (20.00%) ETL
6 9 (20.00%) Validation
7 8 (17.78%) Agile
7 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 8 (17.78%) Data Integration
7 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.56%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
8 7 (15.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.00%) SQL
2 15 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Apex Code
4 2 (4.44%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) SOQL
5 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CBAP
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Grafana
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Databricks
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (4.44%) IBM
5 2 (4.44%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) Informatica
6 1 (2.22%) Laserfiche
6 1 (2.22%) OpenText
6 1 (2.22%) Palantir
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) Sparx