Metadata Repository Contracts in London

Metadata Repository
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Metadata Repository skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata Repository over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 356 444
Rank change year-on-year -14 +88 +118
Contract jobs citing Metadata Repository 5 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.17% 0.52% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 23
10th Percentile £542 £775 £563
25th Percentile £602 £838 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £900 £720
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +25.00% +37.14%
75th Percentile £772 £925 £743
90th Percentile £792 £935 £760
England median daily rate £615 £875 £720
% change year-on-year -29.71% +21.61% +33.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Metadata Repository 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,920 3,856 4,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.42% 23.68% 19.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,051 2,846 3,451
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £438 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 42
10th Percentile £24.55 £36.25 £20.05
25th Percentile £29.07 £41.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -12.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.02 £75.75
90th Percentile £86.75 £78.00 £90.00
England median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +35.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata Repository in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata Repository in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata Repository in London over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Repository in London

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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 Repository within the London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 -4 1 £754 +11.70% 1
Metadata Repository
England

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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 3 (60.00%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Metadata
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Conceptual Models
1 3 (60.00%) Data Design
1 3 (60.00%) Data Flow Diagram
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ontologies
1 3 (60.00%) UML
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Sparx
2 1 (20.00%) Sage