Reference Data Contracts in Central London

Reference Data
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies advertised in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 164 190
Rank change year-on-year +40 +26 -47
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 10 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 0.98% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 9
10th Percentile £544 £437 £459
25th Percentile £639 £575 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +13.64% -10.20%
75th Percentile £925 £850 £603
90th Percentile - £990 £765
London median daily rate £700 £644 £600
% change year-on-year +8.74% +7.29% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 763 1,429 1,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.00% 36.48% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 969 1,234
10th Percentile £263 £313 £383
25th Percentile £425 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £693
90th Percentile £838 £850 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.08 £20.53
25th Percentile £17.47 £23.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.25 £72.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.71% -21.35% +43.55%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in Central London

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in Central London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
City of London +42 9 £900 +41.18%
City of Westminster -1 1 £650 +44.44%
Reference Data
London

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Vault
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata
1 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (50.00%) Publishing
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Modeller
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Finance Modeller
3 1 (10.00%) Murex Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) FpML
2 2 (20.00%) XML Schema
2 2 (20.00%) XSD
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) JAXB
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 5 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (20.00%) Domain Models
3 2 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (10.00%) Cash Management
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (10.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (10.00%) KYC
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Sparx
2 1 (10.00%) Murex