Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in England

Synthetic Data
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 518 566
Rank change year-on-year -14 +48 +180
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 13 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.043% 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.010% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £500 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.89%
75th Percentile £588 - £638
90th Percentile £646 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +38.89%

All Generic Skills
England

Synthetic 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,023 9,821 12,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.46% 31.45% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,900 5,873 8,739
10th Percentile £285 £298 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £511 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.85% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 308 462
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.97 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.18 £21.27
Median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.37% +3.78% +50.85%
75th Percentile £52.81 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £77.95
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.45% +48.59%

Synthetic Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Synthetic Data in England over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Synthetic Data in England

Synthetic 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 Synthetic Data within the England region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
East of England - 4 - -
North of England - 3 £655 - 1
North West - 3 £655 - 1
South East - 3 £500 - 1
London +19 2 £550 - 18
South West - 1 £550 -
Synthetic Data
UK

Synthetic Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (30.77%) Simulink
1 4 (30.77%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Tricentis Tosca
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
2 8 (61.54%) GitLab
3 4 (30.77%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (30.77%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) QA Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) RF Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) QA Leader
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Acceptance Criteria
1 9 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Data Strategy
4 6 (46.15%) Validation
5 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (38.46%) Data Management
5 5 (38.46%) Data Privacy
5 5 (38.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 5 (38.46%) ERP
5 5 (38.46%) QA Automation
5 5 (38.46%) User Experience
6 4 (30.77%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) PLM
6 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Test Planning
6 4 (30.77%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PL/SQL
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) MATLAB
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) OCA
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
2 5 (38.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) SAP