Reference Data Contracts with Work from Home Options

Reference Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 416 515
Rank change year-on-year +100 +99 -105
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 25 52 100
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.66% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 40 75
10th Percentile £476 £496 £404
25th Percentile £518 £518 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.92% +8.33% +7.38%
75th Percentile £638 £766 £775
90th Percentile £668 £1,001 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Reference Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reference Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reference Data.

Reference Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Reference Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Reference Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Azure Stack
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (32.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (16.00%) Power BI
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
5 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) JMeter
1 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (4.00%) TestRail
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Back Office
4 3 (12.00%) Front Office
4 3 (12.00%) Publishing
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Architect
2 11 (44.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Data Modeller
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Credit Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) QA Tester
6 1 (4.00%) Research Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) XML
2 9 (36.00%) REST
3 8 (32.00%) JSON
4 3 (12.00%) Middleware
5 2 (8.00%) FpML
6 1 (4.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Data Structures
2 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (52.00%) Agile
3 12 (48.00%) Data Architecture
4 11 (44.00%) Analytics
4 11 (44.00%) Data Governance
5 10 (40.00%) Data Management
6 9 (36.00%) GAP Analysis
6 9 (36.00%) Microservices
7 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
7 8 (32.00%) Data Strategy
7 8 (32.00%) Event-Driven
7 8 (32.00%) Value Proposition
8 7 (28.00%) Data Lineage
8 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (24.00%) Change Management
9 6 (24.00%) Data Mapping
10 5 (20.00%) Data Science
10 5 (20.00%) Use Case
11 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (16.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) CFA
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) MBA
3 1 (4.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle