Metadata Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Metadata
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hounslow requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 3.95% - 4.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.43% - 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £454 - £456
25th Percentile £497 - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £470
75th Percentile £672 - £490
90th Percentile £711 - £526
West London median daily rate £520 - £470

All Database & BI Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14 15 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 18.42% 21.13% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 22
10th Percentile £363 £363 £189
25th Percentile £409 £392 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £719 £446 £460
Median % change year-on-year +61.05% -2.98% +1.66%
75th Percentile £778 £518 £493
90th Percentile £788 £538 £573
West London median daily rate £520 £476 £475
% change year-on-year +9.17% +0.27% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £42.40
25th Percentile - - £51.63
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.91% -10.67%
75th Percentile - - £71.00
90th Percentile - - £73.40
West London median hourly rate - £42.04 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -37.26% -16.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Hounslow

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Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Metadata

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in Hounslow over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in Hounslow

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Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 13 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
Isleworth - 1 - - 1
Chiswick - 1 £450 - 1
Metadata
West London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
1 1 (33.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lineage
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Sharing
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Personalization
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce