Taxonomies Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Taxonomy
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Taxonomies over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 118 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 +53
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.098% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 0.31% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £303 £519 £376
25th Percentile £373 £528 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £563 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -1.32% -15.56%
75th Percentile £663 £603 £605
90th Percentile £666 £616 £617
Central London median daily rate £535 £563 £570
% change year-on-year -4.89% -1.32% -15.56%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Taxonomies 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 697 635 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.86% 31.23% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 396 512
10th Percentile £350 £375 £300
25th Percentile £438 £475 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £688 £708 £719
90th Percentile £788 £825 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £591 £600
% change year-on-year -6.86% -1.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £20.30 - -
25th Percentile £22.18 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £38.69 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.85 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -42.51%

Taxonomies
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Taxonomies job vacancy trend in the City of London

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Taxonomies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Taxonomies

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Taxonomies in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Taxonomies in the City of London

Taxonomies
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Taxonomies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Taxonomies

Taxonomies
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Attestation
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) LLM
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (20.00%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) EU AI Act
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft