Metadata Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Metadata
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 2.82% - 1.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.38% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West London median daily rate £520 £750 £470
% change year-on-year -30.67% +59.57% -

All Database & BI Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 26 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 18.31% 1.10% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 6
10th Percentile £416 - £438
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile £795 - £538
West London median daily rate £535 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +10.30% +2.12% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £100.00
West London median hourly rate - £42.04 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -40.80% -11.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

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Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Metadata

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Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Uxbridge - 2 - - 1
West Drayton - 1 - -
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West London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (75.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Governance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Logistics
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality