Metadata Contract Job Trends in East London

Metadata
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -8
Contract jobs citing Metadata 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in East London 1.69% - 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.69% - 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £371 - -
25th Percentile £436 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.11%
75th Percentile £676 - -
90th Percentile £743 - -
London median daily rate £520 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -13.33% -14.29% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £75.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +233.33% -35.71%

All Database & BI Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 26 14 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 22.03% 14.58% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 12 37
10th Percentile £390 £400 £300
25th Percentile £449 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £445 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -10.08% -8.33%
75th Percentile £609 £578 £618
90th Percentile £674 £666 £756
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £10.06 -
25th Percentile £19.19 £13.15 £20.98
Median hourly rate £19.38 £18.30 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% -21.53% +3.71%
75th Percentile £19.56 £23.45 £25.66
90th Percentile - £26.54 -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -27.84% -9.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Metadata job vacancy trend in East London

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Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Metadata

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Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in East London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in East London

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Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Metadata

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Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the East London region over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 2 £555 -
Metadata
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (50.00%) SonarCloud
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Coordinator
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artefact Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce