Reference Data Management Contract Job Trends in London

Reference Data Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Reference Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 341 396
Rank change year-on-year -40 +55 +148
Contract jobs citing Reference Data Management 4 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.028% 0.072% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.080% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £333 £441 -
25th Percentile £344 £557 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +25.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile £488 £856 -
90th Percentile £548 £920 -
England median daily rate £475 £750 £613
% change year-on-year -36.67% +22.45% -2.00%

All Process & 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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reference Data Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Reference Data Management job vacancy trend in London

Reference Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reference Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Reference Data Management

Reference Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data Management in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 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
Central London -7 1 £350 -
Reference Data Management
England

Reference Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) ERwin
1 3 (75.00%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (50.00%) Reinsurance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Conceptual Models
3 2 (50.00%) DAMA
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Data Design
3 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) IFRS
2 1 (25.00%) IFRS 17
2 1 (25.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Sparx