Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Synthetic Data
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.063% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £438 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £658 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +38.89%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,978 4,975 6,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.39% 29.74% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,658 2,732 4,197
10th Percentile £204 £209 £213
25th Percentile £358 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £511 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.85% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 503 279 384
10th Percentile £13.02 £15.71 £16.50
25th Percentile £16.90 £22.50 £20.96
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -13.38% +81.78%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £65.55
90th Percentile £74.16 £75.03 £78.25
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.00% -14.45% +48.59%

Synthetic Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Synthetic Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Synthetic Data in the UK excluding London

Synthetic 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 Synthetic Data within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
East of England - 4 - -
North of England - 3 £655 - 1
North West - 3 £655 - 1
South East - 3 £500 - 1
South West - 1 £550 -
Synthetic Data
UK

Synthetic Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (36.36%) Simulink
1 4 (36.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
1 3 (27.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
2 6 (54.55%) GitLab
3 4 (36.36%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (36.36%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) RF Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) QA Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) QA Leader
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Acceptance Criteria
1 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Data Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) PLM
4 4 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Validation
5 3 (27.27%) Data Privacy
5 3 (27.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) QA Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
5 3 (27.27%) User Experience
5 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) MATLAB
2 3 (27.27%) PL/SQL
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (27.27%) OCA
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle