Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in South London

Metadata Management
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Metadata Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.15% - 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% - 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £418 - £405
25th Percentile £425 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £425
75th Percentile £475 - £438
90th Percentile £483 - £445
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

Metadata Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 175 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 89.66% 87.94% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 112 186
10th Percentile £253 £207 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £486 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -3.71% -8.18%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £716 £736 £669
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 17
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile - £17.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.79
90th Percentile - £75.79 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £38.29 £38.38
% change year-on-year -17.75% -0.23% -1.44%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in South London

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Metadata Management

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata Management within the South London region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Bromley - 2 £450 - 2
Metadata Management
London

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality