Metadata Contract Job Trends in South London

Metadata
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.60% - 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.44% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £405
25th Percentile £499 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £425
75th Percentile £500 - £438
90th Percentile - - £445
London median daily rate £550 £550 £558
% change year-on-year - -1.35% -10.80%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 41 35 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 24.55% 17.33% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 34
10th Percentile £381 £413 £231
25th Percentile £481 £426 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% +8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £634 £548 £508
90th Percentile £688 £588 £643
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.33
25th Percentile - - £15.82
Median hourly rate - - £17.63
75th Percentile - - £20.19
90th Percentile - - £21.13
London median hourly rate £52.50 £43.75 £50.25
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.94% -11.06%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Metadata job vacancy trend in South London

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Metadata
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 within the South London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Croydon - 1 £500 - 1
Metadata
London

Metadata
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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow