Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in the South East

Synthetic Data
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.15% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £379 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,364 1,063 1,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.74% 33.07% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 611 1,007
10th Percentile £204 £223 £205
25th Percentile £363 £378 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -8.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 39 118
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.68 £15.57
25th Percentile £15.62 £24.42 £23.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.87 £61.96
90th Percentile £82.00 £71.97 £76.82
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.65% +6.43% +55.66%

Synthetic Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Synthetic Data job vacancy trend in the South East

Synthetic Data
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Synthetic Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Synthetic Data in the South East over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Synthetic Data in the South East

Synthetic Data
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 Synthetic Data within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 January 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
Surrey - 7 £500 -
Synthetic Data
England

Synthetic Data
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 7 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) GitLab
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) QA Leader
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (28.57%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Data Management
1 7 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 7 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 7 (100.00%) ERP
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 7 (100.00%) User Experience
1 7 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 7 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) OCA
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) GDPR
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle