Reference Data Management Contracts

Reference Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Reference Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 692 816
Rank change year-on-year +107 +124 -162
Contract jobs citing Reference Data Management 6 13 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.022% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.025% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 17
10th Percentile £423 £556 -
25th Percentile £481 £613 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £694 £515
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +34.71% -6.36%
75th Percentile £625 £731 £544
90th Percentile £670 £795 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +23.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reference Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data Management in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data Management in the UK

Reference Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data Management in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +108 5 £525 -22.22% 2
London +88 5 £525 -26.32%
Work from Home +124 3 £563 -25.00% 2

Reference Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Services Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Design
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft