RDF Contracts in the City of London

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring RDF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RDF over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RDF 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £449 - £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £620
75th Percentile £450 - £645
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £450 - £620

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

RDF falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing RDF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for RDF in the City of London

RDF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDF in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for RDF in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Airbyte
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SPARQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes