Reference Data Contracts in London

Reference Data
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 396 464
Rank change year-on-year +77 +68 -105
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 74 91 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.42% 0.36% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.27% 0.99% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 74 108
10th Percentile £438 £404 £484
25th Percentile £514 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £643 £614
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +4.68% +6.74%
75th Percentile £925 £762 £733
90th Percentile - £850 £775
England median daily rate £650 £625 £613
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.75
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £84.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £83.50
% change year-on-year - - +138.57%

All Generic Skills
London

Reference Data is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,183 14,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.27% 36.10% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,107 6,671 10,256
10th Percentile £315 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £714
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 106 202
10th Percentile £15.49 £17.88 £17.01
25th Percentile £18.79 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.81 £42.26
Median % change year-on-year -22.44% -17.63% +23.60%
75th Percentile £50.25 £62.81 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.25 £86.65 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £22.49 £26.14
% change year-on-year +60.11% -13.97% +2.49%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in London.

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 +33 8 £900 +44.00% 1
East London - 2 £460 -
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
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 13 (17.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (13.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (21.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.62%) Azure
2 14 (18.92%) Power Platform
3 13 (17.57%) AWS
4 5 (6.76%) GCP
5 4 (5.41%) Cloud Run
5 4 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.05%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.35%) Dagster
8 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (51.35%) Metadata
2 35 (47.30%) Data Vault
2 35 (47.30%) NoSQL
3 22 (29.73%) Metadata Repository
4 14 (18.92%) Power BI
5 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
6 8 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (10.81%) Pentaho
6 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (10.81%) Qlik Sense
6 8 (10.81%) QlikView
6 8 (10.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (6.76%) Relational Database
8 4 (5.41%) BigQuery
9 3 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.70%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.70%) SAP HANA
10 2 (2.70%) Tableau
11 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.35%) FitNesse
1 1 (1.35%) Git
1 1 (1.35%) GitLab
1 1 (1.35%) JIRA
1 1 (1.35%) JMeter
1 1 (1.35%) kappa
1 1 (1.35%) LoadRunner
1 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
1 1 (1.35%) TestRail
General
1 40 (54.05%) Finance
2 26 (35.14%) Public Sector
3 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 21 (28.38%) Electronics
4 21 (28.38%) Manufacturing
4 21 (28.38%) Marketing
4 21 (28.38%) Telecoms
5 16 (21.62%) Publishing
6 10 (13.51%) Banking
7 6 (8.11%) Back Office
8 5 (6.76%) Front Office
8 5 (6.76%) Investment Banking
9 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Law
11 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (56.76%) Architect
2 41 (55.41%) Data Architect
3 20 (27.03%) Chief Architect
3 20 (27.03%) Chief Data Architect
4 12 (16.22%) Analyst
5 10 (13.51%) Head of Architecture
5 10 (13.51%) Head of Data Architecture
6 9 (12.16%) Senior
7 6 (8.11%) Data Modeller
8 5 (6.76%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Banking Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 2 (2.70%) Business Analyst
11 2 (2.70%) Credit Analyst
11 2 (2.70%) Developer
11 2 (2.70%) Research Analyst
11 2 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) XML
2 5 (6.76%) REST
3 4 (5.41%) FpML
4 3 (4.05%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (2.70%) Middleware
5 2 (2.70%) XML Schema
5 2 (2.70%) XSD
6 1 (1.35%) JAXB
6 1 (1.35%) Playwright
6 1 (1.35%) PySpark
6 1 (1.35%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.41%) Equities
2 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.70%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.35%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.35%) IoT
4 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (74.32%) Data Modelling
2 46 (62.16%) Data Architecture
3 35 (47.30%) UML
4 34 (45.95%) Data Integration
5 30 (40.54%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (40.54%) Data Governance
6 26 (35.14%) Business Strategy
6 26 (35.14%) Data Strategy
7 23 (31.08%) Data Design
8 21 (28.38%) Digital Marketing
8 21 (28.38%) Programme Management
9 17 (22.97%) Data Lineage
10 15 (20.27%) Project Delivery
11 12 (16.22%) ETL
12 10 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (13.51%) Data Management
13 9 (12.16%) Agile
13 9 (12.16%) Enterprise Architecture
13 9 (12.16%) Microservices
14 8 (10.81%) Business Process Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) SQL
2 8 (10.81%) T-SQL
3 6 (8.11%) Java
3 6 (8.11%) Python
4 2 (2.70%) MATLAB
4 2 (2.70%) Scala
4 2 (2.70%) VBA
5 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.35%) SPARQL
5 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (36.49%) SC Cleared
1 27 (36.49%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) Degree
3 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.70%) CFA
3 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.70%) MBA
3 2 (2.70%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.35%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.35%) QA
2 1 (1.35%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.35%) Grafana
1 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (33.78%) SAP
2 16 (21.62%) Sparx
3 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.16%) Informatica
4 9 (12.16%) Oracle
5 8 (10.81%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.05%) Databricks
7 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.35%) TIBCO