Reference Data Management Contracts in England

Reference Data Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Reference Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data Management 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 468 536 638
Rank change year-on-year +68 +102 +112
Contract jobs citing Reference Data Management 17 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.016% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.019% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 14
10th Percentile £480 £420 £569
25th Percentile £654 £471 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £513 £688
Median % change year-on-year +63.41% -25.45% +33.50%
75th Percentile £963 £553 £723
90th Percentile - £581 £750
UK median daily rate £838 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +59.52% -25.00% +35.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Reference Data Management 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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London +48 15 £838 +59.52% 2
South East - 2 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) SAS
2 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) SAP MDG
1 5 (29.41%) SAP MDG-S
1 5 (29.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (11.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SAP HANA
2 4 (23.53%) Data Mining
2 4 (23.53%) Metadata
2 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 4 (23.53%) QlikView
2 4 (23.53%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 8 (47.06%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
4 3 (17.65%) Back Office
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
2 5 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Banking Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Data Quality Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) SAP Architect
4 2 (11.76%) SAP MDG Architect
4 2 (11.76%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) SAS Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) SAS Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 4 (23.53%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (23.53%) Virtual Team
3 3 (17.65%) PMI
3 3 (17.65%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Data Management
2 13 (76.47%) Data Governance
3 8 (47.06%) Master Data Management
3 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (41.18%) Data Architecture
5 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 6 (35.29%) Project Management
6 5 (29.41%) Asset Management
6 5 (29.41%) Information Management
6 5 (29.41%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
6 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
7 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
7 4 (23.53%) Data Lineage
7 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
7 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (23.53%) Metadata Management
7 4 (23.53%) Quantitative Analysis
7 4 (23.53%) Scorecard
7 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) PMI Certification
2 5 (29.41%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (23.53%) SAP Certification
4 2 (11.76%) PMP
5 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (23.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (23.53%) GDPR
3 3 (17.65%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) BiZZdesign
1 5 (29.41%) SAP
2 4 (23.53%) Informatica
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) Ab Initio
3 3 (17.65%) IBM