Metadata Management Contract Job Trends in West London

Metadata Management
London > West London

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 39 38
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Metadata Management 12 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.62% 0.37% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 0.41% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 4
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile - £725 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £750 £470
Median % change year-on-year -30.67% +59.57% -
75th Percentile £566 £775 £490
90th Percentile £703 - £526
London median daily rate £520 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -16.80% +8.70% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 395 243 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.24% 89.34% 91.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 155 206
10th Percentile £240 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -10.53% -16.30%
75th Percentile £680 £516 £588
90th Percentile £738 £588 £650
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 34 19
10th Percentile £22.68 £20.45 £20.23
25th Percentile £24.98 £25.07 £25.24
Median hourly rate £28.03 £25.15 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -53.43% -16.92%
75th Percentile £32.94 £34.47 £65.00
90th Percentile £37.18 £50.65 £69.40
London median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year +18.68% -14.89% -15.06%

Metadata Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Metadata Management job vacancy trend in West London

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Metadata Management
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

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

Daily rate histogram for Metadata Management in West London

Metadata Management
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Richmond upon Thames - 11 £520 -
Hillingdon - 1 £700 -
Metadata Management
London

Metadata Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
1 9 (75.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Metadata
2 9 (75.00%) Delta Lake
2 9 (75.00%) Parquet
3 2 (16.67%) Essbase
General
1 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Product Owner
1 9 (75.00%) Technical Product Owner
2 2 (16.67%) Accountant
2 2 (16.67%) Hyperion Accountant
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Lead Product Owner
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Accountant
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Governance Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Governance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Distributed Computing
1 9 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (83.33%) Data Governance
2 10 (83.33%) Data Modelling
3 9 (75.00%) Agile
3 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 9 (75.00%) ETL
3 9 (75.00%) Observability
3 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
4 7 (58.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 7 (58.33%) Decision-Making
4 7 (58.33%) Epics
4 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Product Backlog
4 7 (58.33%) User Stories
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ACCA
1 2 (16.67%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Hyperion
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle