Reference Data Contracts in England

Reference Data
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 522 565
Rank change year-on-year +69 +43 -66
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 90 116 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.80% 0.72% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 93 135
10th Percentile £450 £425 £450
25th Percentile £525 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £925 £738 £738
90th Percentile - £820 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.75
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £84.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £83.50
% change year-on-year - - +96.47%

All Generic Skills
England

Reference Data is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,240 16,009 23,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.52% 33.72% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,318 11,160 17,109
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 832 556 611
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.37% -13.66% +1.96%
75th Percentile £62.13 £63.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in England.

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in England.

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +71 74 £700 +7.69% 18
North West - 13 £568 - 2
North of England - 13 £568 - 2
South West +5 4 £550 +10.00%
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
East of England +8 1 - - 1
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (14.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (17.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.22%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.11%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.11%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Azure
2 14 (15.56%) Power Platform
3 13 (14.44%) AWS
4 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 11 (12.22%) Azure Stack
6 5 (5.56%) GCP
7 4 (4.44%) Cloud Run
7 4 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.11%) Dagster
9 1 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (45.56%) Metadata
2 35 (38.89%) Data Vault
2 35 (38.89%) NoSQL
3 22 (24.44%) Metadata Repository
4 16 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (15.56%) Power BI
6 11 (12.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
8 8 (8.89%) Pentaho
8 8 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (8.89%) Qlik Sense
8 8 (8.89%) QlikView
8 8 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (6.67%) Data Lake
10 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
11 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
12 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
12 2 (2.22%) SAP HANA
12 2 (2.22%) Tableau
13 1 (1.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.11%) FitNesse
1 1 (1.11%) Git
1 1 (1.11%) GitLab
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
1 1 (1.11%) JMeter
1 1 (1.11%) kappa
1 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
1 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
1 1 (1.11%) TestRail
General
1 41 (45.56%) Finance
2 28 (31.11%) Public Sector
3 23 (25.56%) Social Skills
4 21 (23.33%) Electronics
4 21 (23.33%) Manufacturing
4 21 (23.33%) Marketing
4 21 (23.33%) Telecoms
5 17 (18.89%) Publishing
6 11 (12.22%) Banking
7 7 (7.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (6.67%) Back Office
9 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (5.56%) Front Office
9 5 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (5.56%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.11%) Law
12 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (55.56%) Architect
2 49 (54.44%) Data Architect
3 20 (22.22%) Chief Architect
3 20 (22.22%) Chief Data Architect
4 12 (13.33%) Analyst
5 10 (11.11%) Head of Architecture
5 10 (11.11%) Head of Data Architecture
6 9 (10.00%) Senior
7 7 (7.78%) Data Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Data Modeller
9 5 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Product Manager
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 3 (3.33%) Lead
12 2 (2.22%) Senior Research Analyst
12 2 (2.22%) Technical Design Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) XML
2 13 (14.44%) REST
3 11 (12.22%) JSON
4 4 (4.44%) FpML
5 2 (2.22%) Kafka
5 2 (2.22%) Middleware
5 2 (2.22%) XML Schema
5 2 (2.22%) XSD
6 1 (1.11%) JAXB
6 1 (1.11%) Playwright
6 1 (1.11%) PySpark
6 1 (1.11%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 13 (14.44%) Data Structures
3 9 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.44%) Equities
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (75.56%) Data Modelling
2 52 (57.78%) Data Architecture
3 41 (45.56%) Data Governance
4 35 (38.89%) UML
5 34 (37.78%) Data Integration
6 32 (35.56%) Data Strategy
7 30 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (28.89%) Business Strategy
9 24 (26.67%) Data Design
10 23 (25.56%) Data Lineage
11 21 (23.33%) Agile
11 21 (23.33%) Digital Marketing
11 21 (23.33%) Programme Management
12 17 (18.89%) Data Management
12 17 (18.89%) ETL
12 17 (18.89%) Microservices
13 16 (17.78%) Analytics
14 15 (16.67%) Project Delivery
15 13 (14.44%) Data Protection
15 13 (14.44%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.56%) SQL
2 8 (8.89%) T-SQL
3 6 (6.67%) Java
3 6 (6.67%) Python
4 2 (2.22%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.22%) Scala
4 2 (2.22%) VBA
5 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.11%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.22%) CFA
4 2 (2.22%) MBA
4 2 (2.22%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) Grafana
1 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) SAP
2 16 (17.78%) Sparx
3 13 (14.44%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.00%) Informatica
4 9 (10.00%) Oracle
5 8 (8.89%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.11%) TIBCO