Reference Data Management Contracts in England

Reference Data Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Reference Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 646 765
Rank change year-on-year +111 +119 -180
Contract jobs citing Reference Data Management 6 15 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.030% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.033% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 20
10th Percentile £420 £569 £495
25th Percentile £471 £616 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £688 £515
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +33.50% -8.44%
75th Percentile £553 £723 £535
90th Percentile £581 £750 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £700 £515
% change year-on-year -25.00% +35.92% -6.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Reference Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Reference Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data Management in England

Reference Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reference Data Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Reference Data Management in England

Reference Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data Management in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data Management in England

Reference Data Management
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 Reference Data Management within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
London +111 5 £525 -25.00%
Midlands - 1 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
Reference Data Management
UK

Reference Data Management
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 3 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Services Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Governance Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Design
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft