Metadata Contracts in London

Metadata
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Metadata skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Metadata over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 277 295
Rank change year-on-year +39 +18 -23
Contract jobs citing Metadata 156 232 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.89% 0.90% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.07% 4.39% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 156 234
10th Percentile £400 £450 £325
25th Percentile £450 £500 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £913 £743 £738
90th Percentile £925 £850 £811
England median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £31.48
25th Percentile £21.25 - £48.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £65.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.77% +101.81%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.13 £70.00
% change year-on-year -40.98% -45.54% +118.20%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Metadata is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,836 5,286 8,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.98% 20.43% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,839 3,879 6,081
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £457 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £800 £788
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 51 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.62 £23.70 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.99% +79.49%
75th Percentile £55.00 £78.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £90.00 £81.25
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%

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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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024. 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 +14 26 £680 +23.64% 7
West London - 7 £470 - 1
East London -9 2 £495 -33.11% 1
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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 16 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (10.90%) MS Visio
2 12 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (15.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.21%) Relativity
3 2 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.64%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.64%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.64%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.64%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.21%) Collibra
2 31 (19.87%) Power Platform
3 21 (13.46%) Azure
4 17 (10.90%) AWS
5 11 (7.05%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (5.13%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.13%) PowerApps
7 7 (4.49%) GCP
8 5 (3.21%) Alation
8 5 (3.21%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.56%) GitHub
9 4 (2.56%) Slack
10 2 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.28%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.64%) Serverless
11 1 (0.64%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) WebEx
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 43 (27.56%) Data Vault
3 34 (21.79%) SQL Server
4 30 (19.23%) Metadata Repository
4 30 (19.23%) Power BI
5 20 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (5.13%) Big Data
7 8 (5.13%) Pentaho
7 8 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (5.13%) Qlik Sense
7 8 (5.13%) QlikView
8 7 (4.49%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.21%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.21%) EDRMS
10 4 (2.56%) PowerCenter
10 4 (2.56%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.56%) Tableau
11 3 (1.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.05%) ERwin
2 6 (3.85%) JIRA
3 4 (2.56%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (2.56%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.28%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.64%) GCC
5 1 (0.64%) Git
General
1 66 (42.31%) Finance
2 31 (19.87%) Public Sector
3 28 (17.95%) Electronics
3 28 (17.95%) Manufacturing
3 28 (17.95%) Marketing
3 28 (17.95%) Telecoms
4 26 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 21 (13.46%) Banking
6 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.62%) Publishing
7 10 (6.41%) Retail
8 9 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.92%) Legal
10 2 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.28%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Local Government
11 1 (0.64%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 61 (39.10%) Architect
2 58 (37.18%) Data Architect
3 24 (15.38%) Chief Architect
3 24 (15.38%) Chief Data Architect
4 22 (14.10%) Analyst
5 19 (12.18%) Data Analyst
5 19 (12.18%) Integration Engineer
6 16 (10.26%) Governance Analyst
7 13 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
7 13 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 12 (7.69%) Developer
9 11 (7.05%) Consultant
10 10 (6.41%) Head of Architecture
10 10 (6.41%) Head of Data Architecture
11 9 (5.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 9 (5.77%) Power BI Developer
12 7 (4.49%) Automation Developer
12 7 (4.49%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.85%) Applications Developer
13 6 (3.85%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.28%) REST
2 1 (0.64%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.64%) CSS
2 1 (0.64%) HTML
2 1 (0.64%) Kafka
2 1 (0.64%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.36%) Reference Data
2 12 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.77%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.13%) Wiki
5 7 (4.49%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.56%) Derivative
6 4 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.92%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.28%) Life Science
9 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.64%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.64%) Windows
1 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (67.95%) Data Governance
2 88 (56.41%) Data Modelling
3 65 (41.67%) Data Architecture
4 60 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
4 60 (38.46%) Data Lineage
5 53 (33.97%) Metadata Management
6 46 (29.49%) Data Integration
7 44 (28.21%) Data Management
7 44 (28.21%) ETL
8 43 (27.56%) UML
9 42 (26.92%) Data Strategy
10 31 (19.87%) Data Design
11 30 (19.23%) Programme Management
12 28 (17.95%) Digital Marketing
13 24 (15.38%) Business Strategy
14 19 (12.18%) Data Analysis
15 17 (10.90%) Project Delivery
16 15 (9.62%) Visualisation
17 14 (8.97%) Analytics
17 14 (8.97%) Data Governance Strategy
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.36%) SQL
2 14 (8.97%) T-SQL
3 8 (5.13%) Python
4 7 (4.49%) MATLAB
5 5 (3.21%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.56%) Go
6 4 (2.56%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.28%) VBA
8 1 (0.64%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 39 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.05%) Degree
3 2 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (23.72%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.69%) GDPR
3 3 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.28%) QA
5 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.49%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (3.21%) EnCase
3 1 (0.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (21.15%) SAP
1 33 (21.15%) Sparx
2 25 (16.03%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.54%) Informatica
4 16 (10.26%) Oracle
5 10 (6.41%) Databricks
6 8 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 7 (4.49%) Nexthink
8 6 (3.85%) Talend
9 5 (3.21%) Nuix
9 5 (3.21%) Okta
9 5 (3.21%) Snow
9 5 (3.21%) Symantec
9 5 (3.21%) Varonis
10 4 (2.56%) IBM
10 4 (2.56%) Splunk
11 3 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.64%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.64%) NEC
12 1 (0.64%) Northgate