Reference Data Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Reference Data
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in Northampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.26% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £438 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 - -

All Generic Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 51 114 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 38.35% 40.14% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 99 42
10th Percentile £375 £331 £356
25th Percentile £400 £358 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £402 £445
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -9.66% -8.25%
75th Percentile £514 £474 £494
90th Percentile £585 £527 £576
Northamptonshire median daily rate £404 £406 £445
% change year-on-year -0.62% -8.71% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £15.22 - -
25th Percentile £15.55 - -
Median hourly rate £16.10 £21.39 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% - -
75th Percentile £16.65 - -
90th Percentile £16.98 - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £18.25 £21.39 -
% change year-on-year -14.70% - -

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Northampton

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Reference Data

Reference Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Development
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Service Design
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling