Taxonomies Contracts in England

Taxonomy
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Taxonomies 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 447 486 588
Rank change year-on-year +39 +102 +81
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 38 56 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.49% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 37
10th Percentile £400 £263 £338
25th Percentile £457 £319 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -28.89% +17.39%
75th Percentile £578 £595 £763
90th Percentile £700 £687 £1,005
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -24.62% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
England

Taxonomies 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 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Taxonomies
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Taxonomies in England

Taxonomies
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Taxonomies in England

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Taxonomies in England

Taxonomies
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Taxonomies in England

Taxonomies
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 Taxonomies 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 +35 27 £500 -11.11% 53
North of England +17 6 £492 +32.97% 6
North West +15 5 £492 +40.57% 3
South East +42 1 - - 14
Midlands +13 1 £200 -64.29% 7
West Midlands +5 1 £200 -64.29% 2
East of England - 1 £675 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 3
Taxonomies
UK

Taxonomies
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 7 (18.42%) CMS
2 5 (13.16%) Confluence
3 3 (7.89%) EPiServer
3 3 (7.89%) SAS
4 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.53%) Collibra
2 4 (10.53%) Figma
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.89%) Azure
4 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (2.63%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.63%) GCP
5 1 (2.63%) IaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.63%) PaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Metadata
2 5 (13.16%) Power BI
2 5 (13.16%) Tableau
3 3 (7.89%) Data Mining
3 3 (7.89%) QlikView
4 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.63%) Big Data
5 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.63%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.63%) DataStage
5 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.63%) OLAP
5 1 (2.63%) OLTP
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) ERwin
2 2 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Postman
General
1 7 (18.42%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (13.16%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Marketing
4 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.26%) Publishing
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Electronics
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Architect
2 6 (15.79%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Designer
3 5 (13.16%) Content Designer
3 5 (13.16%) Data Architect
3 5 (13.16%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Banking Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) User Experience Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Content Strategist
6 2 (5.26%) Data Quality Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) ForgeRock Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Records Management Specialist
6 2 (5.26%) SEO Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Writer
7 1 (2.63%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) OAuth
1 9 (23.68%) OAuth2
2 7 (18.42%) OpenID
3 6 (15.79%) JDBC
3 6 (15.79%) SOAP
4 2 (5.26%) HTML
4 2 (5.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) Swagger
4 2 (5.26%) XML
5 1 (2.63%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) PKI
2 4 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.89%) Digital Media
3 3 (7.89%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (7.89%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.26%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.26%) Life Science
4 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (28.95%) Data Governance
3 9 (23.68%) Coaching
3 9 (23.68%) Data Modelling
4 8 (21.05%) Analytics
4 8 (21.05%) Ontologies
4 8 (21.05%) Scrum
4 8 (21.05%) User Experience
5 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (18.42%) Data Management
5 7 (18.42%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (18.42%) Identity Management
5 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
5 7 (18.42%) Open Source
6 6 (15.79%) API Integration
6 6 (15.79%) Data Architecture
6 6 (15.79%) DevSecOps
6 6 (15.79%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (15.79%) Migration
6 6 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) Java
1 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.16%) Python
3 4 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) ISEB
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
1 6 (15.79%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.63%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) ForgeRock
1 7 (18.42%) Ping Identity
2 6 (15.79%) Informatica
3 4 (10.53%) IBM
4 3 (7.89%) Ab Initio
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.89%) Optimizely
4 3 (7.89%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) Sparx
6 1 (2.63%) Ariba
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle
6 1 (2.63%) Talend