Reference Data Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Reference Data
East of England > Norfolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in Norfolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 1.46% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -

All Generic Skills
Norfolk

Reference 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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 74 11 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 36.10% 32.35% 48.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 4 14
10th Percentile £185 £164 £127
25th Percentile £212 £237 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £500 £341
Median % change year-on-year -41.00% +46.74% +57.39%
75th Percentile £413 £720 £400
90th Percentile £465 - £453
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 11
10th Percentile £6.00 - -
25th Percentile £13.50 - £12.86
Median hourly rate £15.79 £15.33 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +2.20% -28.61%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £17.63
90th Percentile £23.75 - £26.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -15.38%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

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 Norfolk region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Norwich - 3 £475 - 4
Reference Data
East of England

Reference Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Boomi
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) Talend