Reference Data Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Reference Data
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 1.54% - 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.33% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £460
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median daily rate £400 - £460

All Generic Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30 20 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 46.15% 35.09% 46.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 58
10th Percentile £387 £495 £460
25th Percentile £432 - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £585 £560
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +4.39% +4.94%
75th Percentile £630 £608 £650
90th Percentile £690 £638 £770
East London median daily rate £450 £585 £540
% change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +1.12%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reference Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Reference Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Reference Data

Reference Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana