Metadata Contract Job Trends in London

Metadata
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 196 286
Rank change year-on-year +44 +90 -7
Contract jobs citing Metadata 408 183 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.02% 1.37% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.42% 6.44% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 132 68
10th Percentile £368 £428 £448
25th Percentile £475 £480 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £778
90th Percentile £747 £750 £904
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £32.58 -
25th Percentile - £37.56 £38.25
Median hourly rate - £52.75 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year - +33.54% +14.69%
75th Percentile - £73.56 £40.75
90th Percentile - £81.93 -
England median hourly rate £64.99 £30.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +113.07% -30.43% +13.21%

All Database & BI 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 3,572 2,840 3,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.67% 21.20% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 1,957 2,593
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £710
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £511 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 22
10th Percentile £18.99 £24.81 £27.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +25.71% -12.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.88 £87.50 £78.38
England median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -4.11% +20.00% -30.95%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in London

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Metadata

Metadata
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Metadata in London over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Metadata in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Metadata

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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 8 October 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
Central London +5 51 £575 +4.55% 45
West London - 21 £520 - 12
East London - 1 - - 1
Metadata
England

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 30 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (5.88%) Apache
2 24 (5.88%) CMS
3 20 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 20 (4.90%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.70%) Headless CMS
5 8 (1.96%) Confluence
6 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
7 2 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) Camunda
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.25%) Notion
Business Applications
1 10 (2.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) HFM
3 2 (0.49%) Maximo
3 2 (0.49%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.25%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 141 (34.56%) Azure
2 107 (26.23%) AWS
3 59 (14.46%) Power Platform
4 53 (12.99%) Microsoft Purview
5 41 (10.05%) GCP
6 37 (9.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 37 (9.07%) Collibra
7 35 (8.58%) Snowflake
8 32 (7.84%) dbt
9 30 (7.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 29 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (5.39%) Amazon S3
12 20 (4.90%) GitHub
13 19 (4.66%) Serverless
14 16 (3.92%) Alation
14 16 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.92%) Entra ID
14 16 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (3.19%) Azure Databricks
16 12 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.98%) Intranet
1 4 (0.98%) Kerberos
2 3 (0.74%) Firewall
2 3 (0.74%) SSH
3 2 (0.49%) DNS
3 2 (0.49%) SAN
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (13.48%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (12.25%) Data Lake
2 50 (12.25%) Power BI
3 29 (7.11%) Delta Lake
4 21 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.90%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.68%) Semantic Layer
7 14 (3.43%) Data Vault
8 13 (3.19%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.70%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.70%) Tableau
11 10 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (2.45%) Neo4j
11 10 (2.45%) Parquet
12 9 (2.21%) Big Data
12 9 (2.21%) Spark SQL
13 8 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (5.88%) ERwin
2 21 (5.15%) Git
3 18 (4.41%) ER Studio
4 12 (2.94%) JIRA
5 9 (2.21%) PowerDesigner
6 5 (1.23%) Selenium
7 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.74%) MLflow
9 2 (0.49%) GitLab
9 2 (0.49%) TestRail
10 1 (0.25%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 121 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 117 (28.68%) Finance
3 70 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (13.73%) Banking
5 43 (10.54%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 17 (4.17%) Legal
9 16 (3.92%) Retail
10 14 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.19%) Marketing
12 11 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (2.45%) Publishing
14 6 (1.47%) Automotive
14 6 (1.47%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.98%) Billing
15 4 (0.98%) Local Government
15 4 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 111 (27.21%) Architect
2 69 (16.91%) Data Architect
3 67 (16.42%) Lead
4 64 (15.69%) Data Engineer
5 54 (13.24%) Analyst
6 40 (9.80%) Senior
7 26 (6.37%) Business Analyst
8 24 (5.88%) Data Analyst
9 22 (5.39%) Lead Data Engineer
10 21 (5.15%) Data Modeller
11 16 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
11 16 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.68%) Data Business Analyst
13 13 (3.19%) Consultant
14 11 (2.70%) Developer
14 11 (2.70%) Enterprise Architect
15 10 (2.45%) Enterprise Data Architect
15 10 (2.45%) Information Architect
15 10 (2.45%) Product Owner
16 9 (2.21%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.56%) PySpark
2 30 (7.35%) Terraform
3 26 (6.37%) REST
4 25 (6.13%) JSON
4 25 (6.13%) Kafka
5 8 (1.96%) JDBC
5 8 (1.96%) React
5 8 (1.96%) Spring
6 7 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.72%) XML
6 7 (1.72%) YAML
7 6 (1.47%) .NET
7 6 (1.47%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.47%) Hibernate
7 6 (1.47%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (1.23%) JSON-LD
8 5 (1.23%) pytest
8 5 (1.23%) SPFx
9 4 (0.98%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (0.98%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.75%) Onboarding
1 52 (12.75%) Taxonomies
2 41 (10.05%) Product Ownership
3 40 (9.80%) Data Structures
4 36 (8.82%) Cloud Native
5 32 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (6.62%) Reference Data
7 20 (4.90%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.43%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.47%) Digital Media
11 6 (1.47%) Equities
11 6 (1.47%) Life Science
11 6 (1.47%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.47%) Replication
12 5 (1.23%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.23%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.96%) Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (0.74%) Unix
2 3 (0.74%) Windows
2 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (57.11%) Data Governance
2 194 (47.55%) Data Modelling
3 156 (38.24%) Metadata Management
4 155 (37.99%) Analytics
5 133 (32.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 122 (29.90%) AI
7 116 (28.43%) Data Architecture
8 111 (27.21%) Agile
9 102 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
10 95 (23.28%) Data Engineering
11 86 (21.08%) Data Lineage
11 86 (21.08%) Migration
12 85 (20.83%) CI/CD
13 77 (18.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 72 (17.65%) Data Management
14 72 (17.65%) Roadmaps
15 67 (16.42%) ETL
16 64 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
17 63 (15.44%) DevOps
18 60 (14.71%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 144 (35.29%) SQL
2 113 (27.70%) Python
3 18 (4.41%) PowerShell
4 15 (3.68%) Java
5 11 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (2.45%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.21%) Bicep
7 9 (2.21%) C#
8 8 (1.96%) Bash
9 7 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.47%) SPARQL
11 5 (1.23%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.98%) Cypher
12 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.74%) Gremlin
13 3 (0.74%) Scala
13 3 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 2 (0.49%) SHACL
15 1 (0.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 61 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 46 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.90%) Degree
4 13 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.49%) ACCA
11 2 (0.49%) CBAP
11 2 (0.49%) CIMA
11 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.49%) PMP
12 1 (0.25%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (50.49%) Data Quality
2 30 (7.35%) Accessibility
2 30 (7.35%) GDPR
3 25 (6.13%) QA
4 6 (1.47%) WCAG
5 5 (1.23%) MiFID
6 4 (0.98%) NCSC
7 3 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.74%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.49%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.49%) IFRS
8 2 (0.49%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.49%) SLA
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) EMIR
9 1 (0.25%) GxP
9 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 18 (4.41%) Docker
2 6 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 16 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.47%) Grafana
3 4 (0.98%) Ansible
3 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.74%) Control-M
4 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) systemd
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.25%) Istio
6 1 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 95 (23.28%) Databricks
2 93 (22.79%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.11%) Informatica
4 28 (6.86%) Oracle
5 16 (3.92%) Google
6 10 (2.45%) Sparx
7 7 (1.72%) Aspera
7 7 (1.72%) CA Agile Central
7 7 (1.72%) Confluent
7 7 (1.72%) Signiant
7 7 (1.72%) Talend
8 6 (1.47%) IBM
8 6 (1.47%) SAP
9 5 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.23%) Sitecore
10 4 (0.98%) Foundry
10 4 (0.98%) Palantir
10 4 (0.98%) Teradata
11 3 (0.74%) Adobe