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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 96 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Metadata 42 26 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.72% 1.43% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.58% 6.21% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 13
10th Percentile £363 £463 £490
25th Percentile £428 £475 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +9.80%
75th Percentile £739 £638 £925
90th Percentile £779 £725 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £700
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +9.80%

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 397 419 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.28% 23.05% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 280 343
10th Percentile £350 £404 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £714
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £24.25 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £32.66 £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 £63.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £81.88 -
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 6 July 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.76%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Maximo
1 1 (2.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (2.38%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) AWS
3 8 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 6 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (11.90%) GCP
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.52%) Collibra
6 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (9.52%) Serverless
6 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon Bedrock
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (7.14%) dbt
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 7 (16.67%) Power BI
2 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.52%) Tableau
3 3 (7.14%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.76%) Big Data
4 2 (4.76%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.76%) Data Vault
4 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (2.38%) OLAP
5 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) ERwin
2 2 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.38%) git-flow
General
1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
2 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Architect
2 11 (26.19%) Data Architect
3 8 (19.05%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Data Modeller
5 3 (7.14%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Knowledge Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Platform Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Salesforce Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) PySpark
2 2 (4.76%) JSON
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
2 2 (4.76%) XML
3 1 (2.38%) EDI
3 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.38%) REST
3 1 (2.38%) SOAP
3 1 (2.38%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.38%) Visualforce
3 1 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.76%) Market Risk
3 2 (4.76%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.76%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.38%) Clustering
4 1 (2.38%) Derivative
4 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Data Governance
2 19 (45.24%) Data Modelling
3 13 (30.95%) Analytics
3 13 (30.95%) Metadata Management
4 12 (28.57%) AI
4 12 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 11 (26.19%) Data Lineage
6 10 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 9 (21.43%) Data Management
8 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
8 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (19.05%) Use Case
9 7 (16.67%) Agile
9 7 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 7 (16.67%) Data Integration
9 7 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
9 7 (16.67%) Migration
9 7 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) SQL
2 10 (23.81%) Python
3 3 (7.14%) Apex Code
4 2 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.38%) SOQL
5 1 (2.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CBAP
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.14%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) GDPR
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Grafana
2 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Databricks
2 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.29%) Salesforce
4 4 (9.52%) Oracle
5 2 (4.76%) IBM
5 2 (4.76%) Informatica
5 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) Laserfiche
6 1 (2.38%) OpenText
6 1 (2.38%) Palantir
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Sparx
6 1 (2.38%) Talend