Reference Data Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Reference Data Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Reference Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Reference Data Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.035% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
75th Percentile £415 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £456 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -24.00% -7.69% -8.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Reference Data Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,423 1,405 1,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.10% 91.59% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,463 880 772
10th Percentile £323 £263 £319
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £581
90th Percentile £669 £625 £665
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 64 52
10th Percentile £14.55 £16.73 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.01 £18.47 £12.45
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +59.63% -30.65%
75th Percentile £29.94 £25.15 £22.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £72.63 £38.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Reference Data Management job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Reference Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Reference Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Reference Data Management

Reference Data Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data Management within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
West Yorkshire - 1 £410 -
Reference Data Management
England

Reference Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google