Reference Data Contracts in the North West

Reference Data
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 - 177
Rank change year-on-year - - -40
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 13 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.49% - 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 - £362
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.67%
75th Percentile £585 - £373
90th Percentile - - £380
England median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 1,028 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.62% 33.05% 35.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 673 1,078
10th Percentile £287 £300 £226
25th Percentile £413 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 40 65
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.52
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £31.49 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +57.45% +11.73%
75th Percentile £40.63 £66.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £51.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +2.08%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the North West

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in the North West

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cheshire - 9 £585 -
Manchester - 4 £550 - 1
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Stack
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (46.15%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (38.46%) Data Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata
General
1 7 (53.85%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (38.46%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Publishing
5 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Data Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Data Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Product Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Data Governance Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Governance Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Governance Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) JSON
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Product Ownership
2 6 (46.15%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Data Modelling
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) Data Governance
4 7 (53.85%) Change Management
4 7 (53.85%) Data Management
4 7 (53.85%) Data Protection
4 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
5 6 (46.15%) Analytics
5 6 (46.15%) Data Architecture
5 6 (46.15%) Data Lineage
5 6 (46.15%) Data Mapping
5 6 (46.15%) Data Strategy
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
5 6 (46.15%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (46.15%) Microservices
5 6 (46.15%) Value Proposition
6 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
6 5 (38.46%) Data Science
6 5 (38.46%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (38.46%) Product Roadmap
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) SAP