RDF Contracts in England

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 - 631
Rank change year-on-year - - +105
Contract jobs citing RDF 15 0 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% - 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% - 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 17
10th Percentile £449 - £465
25th Percentile £456 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £597
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.61%
75th Percentile £594 - £645
90th Percentile £650 - £660
UK median daily rate £463 - £597
% change year-on-year - - -11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RDF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RDF in England

RDF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RDF in England.

Daily rate trend for RDF in England

RDF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDF in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for RDF in England

RDF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North of England - 10 £476 -
North West - 8 £463 -
London - 5 £450 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £650 -
Midlands - 2 £650 -
West Midlands - 2 £650 -
RDF
UK

RDF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) dbt
3 4 (26.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Azure AI
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 4 (26.67%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Airbyte
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (33.33%) Neo4j
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) ERwin
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Senior
2 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modeller
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Media Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Scala Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Taxonomist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) PyTorch
2 4 (26.67%) TensorFlow
3 2 (13.33%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (13.33%) FpML
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) XML
4 1 (6.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (20.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Media
3 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (40.00%) ETL
3 6 (40.00%) Open Source
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Business Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Digital Twin
4 4 (26.67%) Linear Algebra
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Mathematics
4 4 (26.67%) Multi-Agent System
4 4 (26.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (26.67%) Pattern Recognition
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (26.67%) Statistics
4 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) SPARQL
3 4 (26.67%) Scala
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Sparx
2 1 (6.67%) Ariba
2 1 (6.67%) SAP