Reference Data Contract Job Trends in East London

Reference Data
London > East London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in East London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.90% - 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% - 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £460
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £625 £670 £650
% change year-on-year -6.72% +3.08% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
East London

Reference 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 54 44 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 48.65% 40.00% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 88
10th Percentile £178 £395 £371
25th Percentile £190 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £650
90th Percentile £690 £641 £770
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £11.33 -
25th Percentile - £16.33 -
Median hourly rate £29.04 £24.66 £11.95
Median % change year-on-year +17.76% +106.36% -46.85%
75th Percentile - £30.83 -
90th Percentile - £34.53 £19.03
London median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +27.78% -22.86%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Reference Data job vacancy trend in East London

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Reference Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Reference Data

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £400 -
Reference Data
London

Reference Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana