Reference Data Management Contracts in London

Reference Data Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 338 386 486
Rank change year-on-year +48 +100 +91
Contract jobs citing Reference Data Management 15 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.028% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.032% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 7
10th Percentile £480 £411 £633
25th Percentile £654 £449 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +59.52% -25.00% +35.92%
75th Percentile £963 £569 £719
90th Percentile - £588 £721
England median daily rate £838 £513 £688
% change year-on-year +63.41% -25.45% +33.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data Management in London

Reference Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data Management in London

Reference Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data Management in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data Management in London

Reference Data Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London - 8 - -
Reference Data Management
England

Reference Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (26.67%) SAS
2 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (33.33%) SAP MDG
1 5 (33.33%) SAP MDG-S
1 5 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (13.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SAP HANA
2 4 (26.67%) Data Mining
2 4 (26.67%) Metadata
2 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) QlikView
2 4 (26.67%) Tableau
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
1 8 (53.33%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Banking Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Data Quality Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SAP Architect
3 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG Architect
3 2 (13.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) SAS Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SAS Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (26.67%) Virtual Team
3 3 (20.00%) PMI
3 3 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Data Management
2 11 (73.33%) Data Governance
3 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Master Data Management
4 6 (40.00%) Project Management
5 5 (33.33%) Asset Management
5 5 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 5 (33.33%) Information Management
5 5 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
6 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Data Lineage
6 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
6 4 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (26.67%) Metadata Management
6 4 (26.67%) Quantitative Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Scorecard
6 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 5 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (26.67%) SAP Certification
4 2 (13.33%) PMP
5 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (26.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 4 (26.67%) GDPR
3 3 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) BiZZdesign
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (26.67%) Informatica
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Ab Initio
3 3 (20.00%) IBM