Reference Data Contracts in England

Reference Data
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 539 585
Rank change year-on-year +77 +46 -100
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 86 129 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 0.76% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 105 112
10th Percentile £457 £435 £428
25th Percentile £525 £500 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £578
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.23% +0.43%
75th Percentile £925 £725 £738
90th Percentile - £790 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £578
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.23% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.75
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £84.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £83.50
% change year-on-year - - +138.57%

All Generic Skills
England

Reference Data is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,493 17,075 24,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.87% 33.67% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,510 11,854 17,057
10th Percentile £263 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 609 644
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +1.92%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in England.

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +77 71 £713 +10.68% 15
North of England +43 11 £550 +69.23%
North West - 11 £550 -
South West +15 4 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire +28 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
West Midlands +28 1 £500 - 1
Midlands +24 1 £500 -2.44% 1
East of England +11 1 - - 3
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
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 14 (16.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (11.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.33%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (27.91%) Azure
2 15 (17.44%) Power Platform
3 13 (15.12%) AWS
4 12 (13.95%) Microsoft Purview
5 11 (12.79%) Azure Stack
6 4 (4.65%) GCP
7 3 (3.49%) Cloud Run
7 3 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.16%) Dagster
9 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (46.51%) Metadata
2 35 (40.70%) Data Vault
2 35 (40.70%) NoSQL
3 21 (24.42%) Metadata Repository
4 16 (18.60%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (17.44%) Power BI
6 11 (12.79%) Snowflake Schema
6 11 (12.79%) SQL Server
7 8 (9.30%) Pentaho
7 8 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (9.30%) Qlik Sense
7 8 (9.30%) QlikView
7 8 (9.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.65%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.49%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.33%) Tableau
11 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.16%) FitNesse
1 1 (1.16%) Git
1 1 (1.16%) GitLab
1 1 (1.16%) JIRA
1 1 (1.16%) JMeter
1 1 (1.16%) kappa
1 1 (1.16%) LoadRunner
1 1 (1.16%) SpecFlow
1 1 (1.16%) TestRail
General
1 38 (44.19%) Finance
2 27 (31.40%) Public Sector
3 21 (24.42%) Social Skills
4 20 (23.26%) Electronics
4 20 (23.26%) Manufacturing
4 20 (23.26%) Marketing
4 20 (23.26%) Telecoms
5 18 (20.93%) Publishing
6 10 (11.63%) Banking
7 5 (5.81%) Back Office
7 5 (5.81%) Front Office
7 5 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.65%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.16%) Law
11 1 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (58.14%) Architect
2 49 (56.98%) Data Architect
3 19 (22.09%) Chief Architect
3 19 (22.09%) Chief Data Architect
4 11 (12.79%) Analyst
5 9 (10.47%) Head of Architecture
5 9 (10.47%) Head of Data Architecture
6 8 (9.30%) Senior
7 6 (6.98%) Data Manager
7 6 (6.98%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.81%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.65%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Banking Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Lead
10 3 (3.49%) Product Manager
10 3 (3.49%) Senior Java Engineer
11 2 (2.33%) Credit Analyst
11 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
11 2 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) XML
2 13 (15.12%) REST
3 11 (12.79%) JSON
4 4 (4.65%) FpML
5 3 (3.49%) Middleware
6 2 (2.33%) Kafka
6 2 (2.33%) XML Schema
6 2 (2.33%) XSD
7 1 (1.16%) JAXB
7 1 (1.16%) Playwright
7 1 (1.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Data Structures
2 12 (13.95%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.47%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.49%) Equities
4 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.16%) IoT
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Life Science
6 1 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (77.91%) Data Modelling
2 52 (60.47%) Data Architecture
3 42 (48.84%) Data Governance
4 35 (40.70%) UML
5 33 (38.37%) Data Integration
6 31 (36.05%) Data Strategy
7 29 (33.72%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (29.07%) Business Strategy
9 24 (27.91%) Data Design
9 24 (27.91%) Data Lineage
10 20 (23.26%) Digital Marketing
10 20 (23.26%) Programme Management
11 18 (20.93%) Agile
11 18 (20.93%) Data Management
12 16 (18.60%) Analytics
12 16 (18.60%) ETL
12 16 (18.60%) Microservices
12 16 (18.60%) Project Delivery
13 13 (15.12%) GAP Analysis
14 12 (13.95%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.12%) SQL
2 8 (9.30%) T-SQL
3 5 (5.81%) Java
3 5 (5.81%) Python
4 2 (2.33%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.33%) VBA
5 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.16%) Scala
5 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (32.56%) SC Cleared
1 28 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) Degree
3 3 (3.49%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.33%) CFA
4 2 (2.33%) MBA
4 2 (2.33%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.91%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Grafana
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (30.23%) SAP
2 17 (19.77%) Sparx
3 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.47%) Informatica
4 9 (10.47%) Oracle
5 8 (9.30%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.49%) Databricks
7 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.16%) TIBCO