diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyproject-metadata/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyproject-metadata/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5cd5b92073bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyproject-metadata/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, setuptools
+, wheel
+, packaging
+, pytestCheckHook
+, tomli
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pyproject-metadata";
+  version = "0.5.0";
+  format = "pyproject";
+
+  src = fetchPypi rec {
+    inherit pname version;
+    hash = "sha256-6YN9I3V8XJ//+19/N8+be8LZc30OlZt/XV8YmVFulww=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    setuptools
+    wheel
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    packaging
+  ];
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    tomli
+  ];
+
+  # Many broken tests, and missing test files
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "PEP 621 metadata parsing";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/FFY00/python-pyproject-metadata";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fridh ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 21488b7edb11..30f0eb0d3796 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -8250,6 +8250,8 @@ in {
 
   pyproj = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyproj { };
 
+  pyproject-metadata = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyproject-metadata { };
+
   pyprosegur = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyprosegur { };
 
   pyptlib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyptlib { };