Reference Data Contracts with Work from Home Options

Reference Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 422 517
Rank change year-on-year +93 +95 -109
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 25 58 95
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.71% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 44 70
10th Percentile £472 £500 £400
25th Percentile £513 £523 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £697
90th Percentile £668 £1,000 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £578
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.23% +0.43%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,406 8,178 13,851
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.56% 31.42% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,962 5,750 9,864
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £430 £455 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 154 228
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.69 £20.56
Median hourly rate £48.00 £57.50 £44.23
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +30.02% +42.66%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +28.93% -16.69% +3.85%

Reference Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reference Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reference Data.

Reference Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Reference Data over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Reference Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Azure Stack
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (32.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (16.00%) Power BI
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
5 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) JMeter
1 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (4.00%) TestRail
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Back Office
5 3 (12.00%) Front Office
5 3 (12.00%) Publishing
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Architect
2 11 (44.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Data Modeller
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Credit Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Finance Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Governance Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) QA Tester
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) XML
2 9 (36.00%) REST
3 8 (32.00%) JSON
4 3 (12.00%) Middleware
5 2 (8.00%) FpML
6 1 (4.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Data Modelling
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Data Architecture
2 12 (48.00%) Data Governance
3 11 (44.00%) Analytics
3 11 (44.00%) Data Management
4 9 (36.00%) GAP Analysis
4 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
5 8 (32.00%) Data Strategy
5 8 (32.00%) Event-Driven
5 8 (32.00%) Value Proposition
6 7 (28.00%) Data Lineage
7 6 (24.00%) Change Management
7 6 (24.00%) Data Mapping
7 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) Use Case
9 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (16.00%) Master Data Management
9 4 (16.00%) Reference Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) CFA
2 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) MBA
2 1 (4.00%) Postgraduate
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle