Metadata Contracts in the City of London

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Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 111 128
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 +41
Contract jobs citing Metadata 26 17 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.39% 0.79% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.98% 3.43% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 18
10th Percentile £463 £484 £491
25th Percentile £475 £538 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £638
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +17.65% +15.91%
75th Percentile £638 £925 £723
90th Percentile £725 - £965
Central London median daily rate £550 £750 £638
% change year-on-year -26.67% +17.65% +15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

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 435 495 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.21% 23.01% 20.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 348 446
10th Percentile £404 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £690 £713 £730
90th Percentile £775 £791 £813
Central London median daily rate £556 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.27% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £24.25 - £42.50
25th Percentile £32.66 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £48.58 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £81.88 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Metadata in the City of London

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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 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata in the City of London

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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 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.54%) SAS
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) CMS
3 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Collibra
3 8 (30.77%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Alation
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (26.92%) Data Lake
3 5 (19.23%) Delta Lake
4 4 (15.38%) Data Mining
4 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
5 3 (11.54%) Base SAS
5 3 (11.54%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.85%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) ERwin
1 1 (3.85%) Postman
General
1 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Police
5 1 (3.85%) Back Office
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Data Governance Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Governance Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) SAS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.85%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Kafka
1 4 (15.38%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Data Governance
2 17 (65.38%) Data Modelling
3 11 (42.31%) Data Engineering
3 11 (42.31%) Metadata Management
4 10 (38.46%) Data Management
5 9 (34.62%) Analytics
5 9 (34.62%) Data Architecture
5 9 (34.62%) Data Lineage
6 7 (26.92%) Data Strategy
7 6 (23.08%) Data Integration
7 6 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (23.08%) Data Security
7 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
7 6 (23.08%) ETL
8 5 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 5 (19.23%) Migration
8 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (15.38%) Data Science
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 10 (38.46%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) Scala
4 2 (7.69%) PROC SQL
4 2 (7.69%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Databricks
1 7 (26.92%) Informatica
2 3 (11.54%) Sparx
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Google