Metadata Management Contracts in London

Metadata Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Metadata Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 341 416
Rank change year-on-year +26 +75 +36
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 38 54 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 60
10th Percentile £463 £388 £479
25th Percentile £522 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £741 £588 £763
90th Percentile £775 £775 £1,000
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Metadata Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Management in London

Metadata Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Metadata Management in London

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Management in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in London

Metadata Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Metadata Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Metadata Management in London

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Central London +12 7 £550 -3.51% 3
West London +12 1 £750 +59.57%
Metadata Management
England

Metadata Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (10.53%) SAS
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.89%) CMS
2 3 (7.89%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) HFM
1 1 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) AWS
3 10 (26.32%) Collibra
3 10 (26.32%) Power Platform
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 3 (7.89%) Alation
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (5.26%) SaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) dbt
7 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.63%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.63%) OCI
7 1 (2.63%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.63%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (100.00%) Metadata
2 13 (34.21%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (26.32%) Power BI
4 7 (18.42%) Data Lake
4 7 (18.42%) Data Mining
4 7 (18.42%) Tableau
5 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
6 4 (10.53%) QlikView
7 2 (5.26%) Big Data
7 2 (5.26%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.26%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (2.63%) Airbyte
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) ERwin
2 2 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (2.63%) ER Studio
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Banking
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Finance
4 3 (7.89%) Police
4 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.26%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Data Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Data Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Data Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Data Quality Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) SaaS Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) SAS Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) SAS Data Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Data Quality Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) ADO
2 1 (2.63%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.63%) JDBC
2 1 (2.63%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Reference Data
2 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.89%) Taxonomies
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.63%) Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.63%) FMCG
5 1 (2.63%) NHS
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Data Governance
2 24 (63.16%) Data Modelling
3 22 (57.89%) Data Management
4 15 (39.47%) Analytics
5 14 (36.84%) Data Lineage
6 12 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (28.95%) Data Integration
8 10 (26.32%) Data Architecture
8 10 (26.32%) Data Science
8 10 (26.32%) Data Security
9 9 (23.68%) Visualisation
10 8 (21.05%) Data Engineering
10 8 (21.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (21.05%) Master Data Management
11 7 (18.42%) Agile
11 7 (18.42%) Data Strategy
12 6 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
12 6 (15.79%) Data Analysis
12 6 (15.79%) Decision-Making
12 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) SQL
2 12 (31.58%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Java
3 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.63%) R
3 1 (2.63%) Scala
3 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (52.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (23.68%) GDPR
3 8 (21.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Informatica
2 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) Google
4 3 (7.89%) Ab Initio
4 3 (7.89%) Databricks
4 3 (7.89%) IBM
4 3 (7.89%) Sparx
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.63%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.63%) Remedy
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) Talend