Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Synthetic Data
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.042% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 819 577 882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.60% 34.53% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 314 536
10th Percentile £250 £300 £205
25th Percentile £363 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £602
90th Percentile £650 £652 £675
South East median daily rate £488 £520 £484
% change year-on-year -6.25% +7.55% -7.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 15 51
10th Percentile £17.53 £26.40 £20.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £44.50 £24.00
Median hourly rate £41.57 £55.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +21.65% +54.56%
75th Percentile £81.31 £62.24 £61.75
90th Percentile £96.75 £80.23 £63.29
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% -31.58% +15.15%

Synthetic Data
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 February 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
Berkshire - 1 - -
Synthetic Data
South East

Synthetic Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Understanding
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD