Reference Data Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Reference Data
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £438 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £550 -
% change year-on-year -26.91% - -

All Generic Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 76 131 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 33.63% 42.95% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 110 50
10th Percentile £320 £331 £354
25th Percentile £393 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £406 £445
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -8.71% -6.32%
75th Percentile £535 £479 £500
90th Percentile £576 £541 £579
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £435 £464
% change year-on-year +15.01% -6.25% -7.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £14.41 - -
25th Percentile £15.55 - -
Median hourly rate £18.25 £21.39 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.70% - -
75th Percentile £21.22 - -
90th Percentile £42.49 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.97 £21.04 £16.63
% change year-on-year -14.59% +26.52% -72.28%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Northampton - 3 £402 - 1
Reference Data
East Midlands

Reference Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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