Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Synthetic Data
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 179 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.055% 0.079% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £611 -
25th Percentile £425 £626 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £655 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% - -
75th Percentile £475 £686 -
90th Percentile - £704 -
England median daily rate £500 £622 -
% change year-on-year -19.65% - -

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,445 1,231 1,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.85% 32.27% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 783 719
10th Percentile £325 £271 £275
25th Percentile £408 £375 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -2.94%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 52 120
10th Percentile £18.50 £17.42 £12.15
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.69 £13.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £15.59
Median % change year-on-year +29.66% +117.55% -43.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.94 £34.21
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.63 £57.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.85 £41.25
% change year-on-year +33.82% -20.36% +3.57%

Synthetic Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Synthetic Data job vacancy trend in the North of England

Synthetic Data
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Synthetic Data within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Yorkshire - 2 £450 - 1
North West -49 1 - -
North East - 1 £450 -
Synthetic Data
England

Synthetic Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) Newman
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk