Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Synthetic Data
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

Synthetic Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 689 586 741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.46% 31.73% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 365 500
10th Percentile £350 £375 £299
25th Percentile £440 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -0.41%
75th Percentile £688 £696 £703
90th Percentile £788 £800 £814
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £18.51 - £12.75
25th Percentile £20.04 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.13 - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -53.09%
75th Percentile £38.69 - £41.63
90th Percentile £41.85 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £21.00
% change year-on-year +1.24% +22.81% -44.37%

Synthetic Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Synthetic Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Synthetic Data job vacancy trend in the City of London

Synthetic Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Google JAX
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) JAX
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Red Team
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Experimental Design
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Safety Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (100.00%) PhD
2 1 (50.00%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST