Metadata Contracts in London

Metadata
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Metadata skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Metadata over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 278 314
Rank change year-on-year +25 +36 -23
Contract jobs citing Metadata 149 214 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.85% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.76% 4.17% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 143 222
10th Percentile £400 £450 £314
25th Percentile £470 £498 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +11.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £919 £743 £725
90th Percentile £925 £905 £786
England median daily rate £650 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -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 £32.50 £36.25 £61.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -41.06% +91.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,964 5,127 8,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.42% 20.39% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,948 3,762 5,974
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £587
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.00% +8.66%
75th Percentile £715 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 51 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.69
25th Percentile £25.63 £28.95 £34.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +85.43%
75th Percentile £54.03 £81.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.85 £90.00 £75.34
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

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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 12 June 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 12 June 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 23 £680 +8.80% 6
West London - 7 £470 - 5
East London -10 1 - - 1
Metadata
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 15 (10.07%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.34%) Apache
2 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) IIS
3 1 (0.67%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (8.72%) MS Visio
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 23 (15.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (3.36%) Relativity
3 3 (2.01%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (2.01%) NEC Housing
3 3 (2.01%) OPENHousing
4 2 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.67%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.15%) Power Platform
2 31 (20.81%) Collibra
3 21 (14.09%) Azure
4 15 (10.07%) AWS
5 12 (8.05%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (6.04%) Power Automate
6 9 (6.04%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.36%) GCP
8 4 (2.68%) Alation
8 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.68%) GitHub
8 4 (2.68%) Slack
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.34%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.34%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.67%) Serverless
11 1 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.36%) WebEx
2 2 (1.34%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (33.56%) NoSQL
2 42 (28.19%) Data Vault
3 33 (22.15%) Metadata Repository
4 32 (21.48%) Power BI
4 32 (21.48%) SQL Server
5 26 (17.45%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (8.05%) Relational Database
7 11 (7.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.37%) Data Lake
8 8 (5.37%) Pentaho
8 8 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.37%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (5.37%) QlikView
9 7 (4.70%) Big Data
10 5 (3.36%) EDRMS
10 5 (3.36%) Tableau
11 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.01%) Data Mining
12 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (4.70%) ERwin
2 6 (4.03%) JIRA
3 4 (2.68%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (2.68%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.34%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.67%) GCC
5 1 (0.67%) Git
General
1 59 (39.60%) Finance
2 32 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 29 (19.46%) Public Sector
4 24 (16.11%) Electronics
4 24 (16.11%) Manufacturing
4 24 (16.11%) Marketing
4 24 (16.11%) Telecoms
5 18 (12.08%) Banking
6 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (9.40%) Publishing
8 7 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.03%) Retail
10 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.01%) Legal
11 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.34%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Law
12 1 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 60 (40.27%) Architect
2 57 (38.26%) Data Architect
3 24 (16.11%) Chief Architect
3 24 (16.11%) Chief Data Architect
4 22 (14.77%) Analyst
5 19 (12.75%) Data Analyst
6 14 (9.40%) Governance Analyst
7 13 (8.72%) Developer
8 11 (7.38%) Consultant
8 11 (7.38%) Enterprise Architect
8 11 (7.38%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 11 (7.38%) Integration Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Data Engineer
9 10 (6.71%) Head of Architecture
9 10 (6.71%) Head of Data Architecture
10 9 (6.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (6.04%) Power BI Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Automation Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Data Modeller
12 6 (4.03%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (0.67%) CSS
1 1 (0.67%) HTML
1 1 (0.67%) Kafka
1 1 (0.67%) REST
1 1 (0.67%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.17%) Reference Data
2 12 (8.05%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.04%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.68%) Wiki
6 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.01%) Derivative
6 3 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.34%) Life Science
7 2 (1.34%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.34%) Windows
1 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (60.40%) Data Governance
2 82 (55.03%) Data Modelling
3 63 (42.28%) Data Architecture
4 61 (40.94%) Business Intelligence
5 51 (34.23%) Metadata Management
6 46 (30.87%) Data Lineage
7 45 (30.20%) Data Management
8 42 (28.19%) UML
9 41 (27.52%) Data Integration
10 37 (24.83%) ETL
11 36 (24.16%) Data Strategy
12 32 (21.48%) Data Design
13 26 (17.45%) Programme Management
14 24 (16.11%) Digital Marketing
15 22 (14.77%) Business Strategy
16 21 (14.09%) Analytics
17 19 (12.75%) Visualisation
18 18 (12.08%) Data Analysis
19 16 (10.74%) Data Visualisation
19 16 (10.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.83%) SQL
2 12 (8.05%) T-SQL
3 10 (6.71%) Python
4 8 (5.37%) MATLAB
5 6 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.68%) Go
7 3 (2.01%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.34%) VBA
9 1 (0.67%) PHP
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.50%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.38%) Degree
4 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (23.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.37%) GDPR
3 3 (2.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.01%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.67%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (4.70%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (3.36%) EnCase
3 1 (0.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 29 (19.46%) SAP
2 28 (18.79%) Sparx
3 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
4 15 (10.07%) Informatica
5 12 (8.05%) Oracle
6 11 (7.38%) Databricks
7 8 (5.37%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.70%) Nexthink
9 5 (3.36%) Nuix
9 5 (3.36%) Snow
9 5 (3.36%) Talend
10 4 (2.68%) Okta
10 4 (2.68%) Splunk
10 4 (2.68%) Symantec
10 4 (2.68%) Varonis
11 3 (2.01%) IBM
11 3 (2.01%) NEC
11 3 (2.01%) Northgate
11 3 (2.01%) Salesforce
12 2 (1.34%) Alteryx