Metadata Contracts in London

Metadata
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 240 279
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 +20
Contract jobs citing Metadata 106 154 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.86% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.79% 4.02% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 114 151
10th Percentile £450 £400 £413
25th Percentile £483 £436 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £680 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +8.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £739 £872 £738
90th Percentile £799 £925 £850
England median daily rate £520 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -15.10% +11.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -46.77%
England median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year - -24.14% -48.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,800 3,831 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.30% 21.47% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,979 2,822 4,046
10th Percentile £375 £377 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 36 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.60 £25.59 £24.50
Median hourly rate £40.50 £49.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% -6.19% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.34 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.50 £64.14 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.43 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -18.93% -31.09% +35.25%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Metadata in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Metadata in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Metadata 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 within the London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 17 £550 -19.12% 4
West London +13 1 £750 +36.36% 2
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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 8 (7.55%) SAS
2 7 (6.60%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.77%) CMS
4 3 (2.83%) Confluence
5 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.94%) Apache
6 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (2.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.89%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.13%) Azure
2 28 (26.42%) AWS
3 19 (17.92%) Collibra
4 17 (16.04%) Power Platform
5 15 (14.15%) GCP
6 12 (11.32%) GitHub
7 9 (8.49%) dbt
7 9 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (4.72%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (4.72%) SaaS
11 4 (3.77%) Dropbox
12 3 (2.83%) Alation
12 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.83%) Cloud Run
13 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.94%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) FTP
1 1 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.47%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (16.04%) Power BI
3 15 (14.15%) Data Lake
4 9 (8.49%) Tableau
5 6 (5.66%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.72%) Neo4j
7 4 (3.77%) Base SAS
7 4 (3.77%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.77%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.77%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.77%) QlikView
7 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.83%) Big Data
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.89%) GIS
9 2 (1.89%) OLTP
9 2 (1.89%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Git
2 4 (3.77%) JIRA
3 3 (2.83%) ER Studio
4 2 (1.89%) ERwin
General
1 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.92%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (16.98%) Banking
3 18 (16.98%) Finance
4 5 (4.72%) Legal
5 4 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Publishing
5 4 (3.77%) Retail Banking
6 3 (2.83%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Police
7 2 (1.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Law
8 1 (0.94%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (29.25%) Architect
2 28 (26.42%) Data Architect
3 15 (14.15%) Analyst
3 15 (14.15%) Data Engineer
4 9 (8.49%) Data Analyst
5 7 (6.60%) Lead
6 6 (5.66%) Data Modeller
6 6 (5.66%) Senior
7 5 (4.72%) Banking Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Governance Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Consultant
9 3 (2.83%) Data Consultant
9 3 (2.83%) Developer
9 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) Jinja
2 5 (4.72%) Kafka
2 5 (4.72%) Plotly
2 5 (4.72%) React
3 4 (3.77%) PySpark
4 3 (2.83%) FastAPI
4 3 (2.83%) pytest
5 2 (1.89%) ADO
6 1 (0.94%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.94%) JDBC
6 1 (0.94%) LDAP
6 1 (0.94%) ODBC
6 1 (0.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Reference Data
2 6 (5.66%) Taxonomies
3 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.77%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.83%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.89%) NHS
6 2 (1.89%) Replication
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Clustering
7 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) FMCG
7 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.94%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.66%) Unix
2 4 (3.77%) Linux
3 1 (0.94%) Android
3 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.17%) Data Modelling
2 44 (41.51%) Data Governance
3 38 (35.85%) Metadata Management
4 36 (33.96%) Analytics
5 34 (32.08%) Data Architecture
6 30 (28.30%) Data Management
7 26 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (18.87%) Agile
8 20 (18.87%) Data Integration
9 18 (16.98%) Data Engineering
10 16 (15.09%) ETL
10 16 (15.09%) Machine Learning
10 16 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (14.15%) Data Lineage
11 15 (14.15%) Visualisation
12 12 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (11.32%) CI/CD
12 12 (11.32%) Data Visualisation
12 12 (11.32%) Decision-Making
13 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.08%) SQL
2 29 (27.36%) Python
3 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.83%) PROC SQL
4 3 (2.83%) SAS Macro
4 3 (2.83%) Scala
4 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.89%) Bash
5 2 (1.89%) C++
5 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.94%) Java
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.94%) R
6 1 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.49%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) ACCA
6 1 (0.94%) CIMA
6 1 (0.94%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (32.08%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.26%) GDPR
3 8 (7.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.77%) QA
5 2 (1.89%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
2 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.89%) Terraform
2 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Informatica
2 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.32%) Databricks
4 10 (9.43%) Google
5 6 (5.66%) Sparx
6 5 (4.72%) SAP
7 3 (2.83%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.83%) IBM
7 3 (2.83%) Oracle
8 2 (1.89%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.89%) Talend
9 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.94%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.94%) Remedy
9 1 (0.94%) Salesforce