RDF Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring RDF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RDF 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £437 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - -
75th Percentile £607 - -
90th Percentile £651 - -
South East median daily rate £523 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

RDF 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,326 671 1,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.88% 89.95% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 484 715
10th Percentile £356 £325 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -5.25% +10.57%
75th Percentile £670 £618 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 40 162
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.10 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £29.38 £25.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.63 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.59% +0.48% +8.21%
75th Percentile £52.58 £71.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.04 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

RDF job vacancy trend in Hampshire

RDF
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing RDF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing RDF

RDF
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDF in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDF in Hampshire

RDF
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
Andover - 2 £523 -
RDF
South East

RDF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (50.00%) Stardog
1 1 (50.00%) Triplestore
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Information Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Information Strategy Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Strategy Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Jena
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality