Reference Data Contracts in the South West

Reference Data
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 157 167
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -28
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 4 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.28% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 1.02% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile - £444 -
25th Percentile £525 £463 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £158
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +217.46% -58.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £161
90th Percentile - £600 -
England median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
South West

Reference Data is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,040 982 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.67% 27.70% 25.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 689 666
10th Percentile £300 £275 £205
25th Percentile £457 £425 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £588
90th Percentile £695 £738 £664
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 133 56
10th Percentile £13.69 - £15.19
25th Percentile £15.75 - £22.81
Median hourly rate £46.95 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +379.03% -80.30% +5.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £64.96
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.31 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +46.76% -16.66% +1.66%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the South West

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in the South West

Reference Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in the South West

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Bristol +12 4 £550 +15.79%
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
1 4 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 4 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Value Proposition
2 2 (50.00%) SFIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality