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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 342 400
Rank change year-on-year +31 +58 +50
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 40 54 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.35% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 64
10th Percentile £469 £390 £463
25th Percentile £550 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £460 £650
Median % change year-on-year +35.87% -29.23% +18.18%
75th Percentile £745 £588 £763
90th Percentile £775 £775 £978
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -

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 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

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 18 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 18 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 +7 8 £550 +0.46% 5
West London +6 1 £750 +59.57% 1
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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (10.00%) SAS
2 3 (7.50%) CMS
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) HFM
1 1 (2.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (22.50%) Collibra
5 6 (15.00%) GCP
6 3 (7.50%) Alation
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) dbt
8 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.50%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.50%) OCI
8 1 (2.50%) Serverless
8 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.50%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (100.00%) Metadata
2 13 (32.50%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (25.00%) Power BI
4 8 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 8 (20.00%) Data Mining
5 7 (17.50%) Tableau
6 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
7 4 (10.00%) QlikView
8 3 (7.50%) Big Data
9 2 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (5.00%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (2.50%) Airbyte
10 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
10 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
10 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
10 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) ERwin
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Banking
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Police
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Architect
2 9 (22.50%) Data Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Data Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Data Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Data Quality Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) SaaS Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) SAS Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) SAS Data Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) ADO
2 1 (2.50%) Great Expectations
2 1 (2.50%) JDBC
2 1 (2.50%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 3 (7.50%) Taxonomies
4 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.50%) Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) FMCG
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Data Governance
2 26 (65.00%) Data Modelling
3 24 (60.00%) Data Management
4 16 (40.00%) Data Lineage
5 15 (37.50%) Analytics
6 14 (35.00%) Data Integration
7 12 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (27.50%) Data Architecture
8 11 (27.50%) Data Security
9 10 (25.00%) Data Engineering
9 10 (25.00%) Data Science
10 9 (22.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 8 (20.00%) Master Data Management
11 8 (20.00%) Visualisation
12 7 (17.50%) Actionable Insight
12 7 (17.50%) Agile
12 7 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (17.50%) Data Strategy
12 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
13 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) SQL
2 14 (35.00%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) C++
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.50%) R
4 1 (2.50%) Scala
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (47.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (27.50%) GDPR
3 8 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Informatica
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Google
4 3 (7.50%) Ab Initio
4 3 (7.50%) Databricks
4 3 (7.50%) IBM
4 3 (7.50%) Sparx
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle
5 2 (5.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.50%) Hyperion
6 1 (2.50%) Remedy
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) Talend