Reference Data Contracts in Sheffield

Reference Data
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £650 - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 122 133 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.24% 35.09% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 99
10th Percentile £306 £395 £417
25th Percentile £375 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £694
90th Percentile £650 £648 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £17.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.88% +13.38%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.75 £10.63
% change year-on-year - +19.94% -44.41%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in Sheffield

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in Sheffield

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) ERwin
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (100.00%) FpML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Sparx