Metadata Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Metadata
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 22.86% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £630 - -
West London median daily rate £625 £750 -
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 28 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 80.00% 33.33% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 8
10th Percentile £204 £420 £532
25th Percentile £591 £471 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £565 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -16.30% +22.73%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £713
90th Percentile £638 - £859
West London median daily rate £603 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +26.84% -5.00% -13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

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Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Metadata

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (50.00%) Mixpanel
2 4 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Principal Software Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Software Engineer
3 5 (62.50%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (50.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Software Engineer
4 4 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
4 4 (50.00%) GCP Software Engineer
5 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (37.50%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) Architect
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Architect
6 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics Architect
6 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
6 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
6 1 (12.50%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) PySpark
2 4 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (50.00%) AI
2 4 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) LLM
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Observability
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Databricks