Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in London

Synthetic Data
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.020% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.054% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £559 - -
England median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
London

Synthetic Data 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,607 4,725 6,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.86% 34.15% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,640 2,975 4,359
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 60 172
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.16 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.21 £19.86
Median hourly rate £27.71 £38.54 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +31.74% -16.43%
75th Percentile £53.44 £61.50 £47.90
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £66.58
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.65% +6.43% +55.66%

Synthetic Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Synthetic Data job vacancy trend in London

Synthetic Data
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Synthetic Data

Synthetic Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Synthetic Data in London over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Synthetic Data in London

Synthetic Data
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Privacy
1 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Computational Linguistics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) OCA
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle