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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 249 277
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 +19
Contract jobs citing Metadata 101 154 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.88% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 3.98% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 115 150
10th Percentile £454 £400 £450
25th Percentile £486 £441 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +15.91%
75th Percentile £743 £913 £743
90th Percentile £792 £925 £875
England median daily rate £523 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.77%
England median hourly rate £25.43 £22.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +13.02% -40.98% -45.54%

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 2,672 3,865 5,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.03% 22.20% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,872 2,872 3,856
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -2.61% -0.86%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £837 £838 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 34 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £26.32 £25.31 £24.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £49.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.93% -10.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.78 £82.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £70.85 £90.00
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -19.88% -31.09% +28.99%

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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 23 May 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 23 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 +1 22 £550 -19.12% 29
West London +8 1 £750 +59.57% 22
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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 7 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.94%) SAS
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.96%) CMS
4 2 (1.98%) Apache
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.98%) HFM
3 1 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (33.66%) Azure
2 27 (26.73%) AWS
3 20 (19.80%) Collibra
4 12 (11.88%) Power Platform
5 11 (10.89%) GCP
6 10 (9.90%) dbt
6 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (7.92%) GitHub
7 8 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.96%) Alation
8 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.96%) Dropbox
8 4 (3.96%) SaaS
9 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.97%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.98%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.99%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.99%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.99%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) FTP
1 1 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.71%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (16.83%) Data Lake
3 12 (11.88%) Power BI
4 7 (6.93%) Delta Lake
5 6 (5.94%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.95%) Tableau
7 4 (3.96%) Base SAS
7 4 (3.96%) Big Data
8 3 (2.97%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (2.97%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.98%) GIS
9 2 (1.98%) QlikView
9 2 (1.98%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.99%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Git
1 2 (1.98%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) ERwin
General
1 24 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.82%) Finance
4 16 (15.84%) Banking
4 16 (15.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.93%) Legal
6 4 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Police
7 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.97%) Publishing
8 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.98%) Military
8 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Architect
2 24 (23.76%) Data Architect
3 20 (19.80%) Data Engineer
4 13 (12.87%) Analyst
5 9 (8.91%) Lead
6 7 (6.93%) Senior
7 6 (5.94%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Data Analyst
9 4 (3.96%) Consultant
9 4 (3.96%) Data Consultant
9 4 (3.96%) Governance Analyst
9 4 (3.96%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.97%) Developer
10 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (1.98%) Data Modeller
11 2 (1.98%) Governance Consultant
11 2 (1.98%) SAS Analyst
11 2 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (1.98%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) Kafka
2 7 (6.93%) Jinja
2 7 (6.93%) PySpark
3 3 (2.97%) Plotly
3 3 (2.97%) React
4 2 (1.98%) ADO
5 1 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.99%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.99%) JDBC
5 1 (0.99%) LDAP
5 1 (0.99%) ODBC
5 1 (0.99%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.93%) Reference Data
3 5 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.96%) Freedom of Information
4 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.96%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.97%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.98%) NHS
6 2 (1.98%) Replication
7 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.99%) Clustering
7 1 (0.99%) CMDB
7 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.99%) FMCG
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.99%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.94%) Unix
2 5 (4.95%) Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Android
3 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.50%) Data Governance
2 46 (45.54%) Data Modelling
3 38 (37.62%) Metadata Management
4 33 (32.67%) Analytics
5 32 (31.68%) Data Architecture
6 30 (29.70%) Data Management
7 23 (22.77%) Data Engineering
8 22 (21.78%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (21.78%) ETL
9 19 (18.81%) Data Integration
9 19 (18.81%) Data Lineage
10 16 (15.84%) Agile
11 15 (14.85%) Decision-Making
11 15 (14.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (12.87%) Data Science
13 13 (12.87%) Data Security
13 13 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (11.88%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 11 (10.89%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 36 (35.64%) SQL
2 31 (30.69%) Python
3 6 (5.94%) Scala
4 4 (3.96%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.97%) C++
5 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.97%) PROC SQL
5 3 (2.97%) SAS Macro
6 2 (1.98%) Bash
6 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.99%) Java
7 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.99%) R
7 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) Degree
4 3 (2.97%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.99%) ACCA
6 1 (0.99%) CIMA
6 1 (0.99%) CIPFA
6 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.99%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (37.62%) Data Quality
2 14 (13.86%) GDPR
3 7 (6.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (4.95%) QA
5 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (2.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.99%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (22.77%) Informatica
2 13 (12.87%) Databricks
2 13 (12.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.94%) Google
4 5 (4.95%) SAP
5 4 (3.96%) Oracle
5 4 (3.96%) Sparx
6 3 (2.97%) Talend
7 2 (1.98%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.99%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.99%) Aveksa
8 1 (0.99%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.99%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.99%) IBM
8 1 (0.99%) Remedy
8 1 (0.99%) Salesforce