RDF Contract Job Trends in the South East

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring RDF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RDF 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.034% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £437 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - -
75th Percentile £607 - -
90th Percentile £651 - -
England median daily rate £563 £463 -
% change year-on-year +21.62% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

RDF falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,749 2,757 4,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.40% 91.59% 84.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,087 1,756 2,743
10th Percentile £281 £256 £243
25th Percentile £408 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.57%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £621
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 171 434
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.85 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £15.79 £18.23
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £81.05 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing RDF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

RDF job vacancy trend in the South East

RDF
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RDF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing RDF

RDF
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDF in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDF in the South East

RDF
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hampshire - 2 £523 -
RDF
England

RDF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon Neptune
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (50.00%) Stardog
1 1 (50.00%) Triplestore
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Information Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Information Strategy Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Strategy Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Jena
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Information Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality