Reference Data Contracts in South Wales

Reference Data
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.39% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 106 148 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.93% 40.33% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 131
10th Percentile £160 £137 £180
25th Percentile £258 £267 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £446 £550 £575
90th Percentile £494 £576 £638
Wales median daily rate £375 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -23.86% +3.68% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 11
10th Percentile £13.08 £16.03 £12.63
25th Percentile £18.95 £22.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +41.12% +5.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £23.50
90th Percentile £46.25 £78.65 £26.50
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £19.00 £18.06
% change year-on-year +10.58% +5.20% +9.45%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in South Wales

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in South Wales

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. 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
Newport - 1 - -
Reference Data
Wales

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft