Reference Data Contracts in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 423 455
Rank change year-on-year +48 +32 -43
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 13 24 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 23
10th Percentile £513 £435 £362
25th Percentile £525 £466 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £583 £547 £775
90th Percentile £585 £663 £785
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,037 7,749 9,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.25% 32.44% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,632 5,241 6,787
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £615 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 436 463
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +9.29% -16.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.60
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.02
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
North of England +37 11 £550 +69.23% 3
North West - 11 £550 - 2
South West +16 4 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire +22 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
Midlands +29 1 £500 -2.44%
West Midlands +20 1 £500 -
East of England +9 1 - - 1
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP MDG
2 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Stack
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (46.15%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 3 (23.08%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (38.46%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
4 1 (7.69%) Publishing
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Data Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Data Manager
3 3 (23.08%) Product Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Governance Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Manager
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Financial Leader
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) JSON
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Product Ownership
2 7 (53.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Life Science
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Governance
2 9 (69.23%) Data Modelling
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) Data Management
4 7 (53.85%) Analytics
4 7 (53.85%) Change Management
4 7 (53.85%) Data Protection
5 6 (46.15%) Data Architecture
5 6 (46.15%) Data Lineage
5 6 (46.15%) Data Mapping
5 6 (46.15%) Data Strategy
5 6 (46.15%) Event-Driven
5 6 (46.15%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (46.15%) Microservices
5 6 (46.15%) Value Proposition
6 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
7 3 (23.08%) Data Science
7 3 (23.08%) ETL
7 3 (23.08%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) Data Quality
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) SAP