Reference Data Contracts in England

Reference Data
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 528 564
Rank change year-on-year +87 +36 -74
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 90 112 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.69% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 91 126
10th Percentile £451 £425 £450
25th Percentile £531 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £925 £725 £747
90th Percentile - £775 £781
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.75
Median hourly rate - - £83.50
75th Percentile - - £84.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £83.50
% change year-on-year - - +96.47%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,144 16,209 23,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.60% 33.64% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,283 17,040
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 571 628
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.16
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in England.

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in England.

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +88 74 £713 +12.65% 23
North West - 13 £568 - 1
North of England - 13 £568 - 1
South West +2 4 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
East of England +4 1 - -
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (15.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (18.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.22%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.11%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.11%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Azure
2 15 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 13 (14.44%) AWS
4 12 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 11 (12.22%) Azure Stack
6 5 (5.56%) GCP
7 4 (4.44%) Cloud Run
7 4 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.11%) Dagster
9 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (45.56%) Metadata
2 36 (40.00%) Data Vault
2 36 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 22 (24.44%) Metadata Repository
4 16 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (16.67%) Power BI
6 11 (12.22%) Snowflake Schema
6 11 (12.22%) SQL Server
7 8 (8.89%) Pentaho
7 8 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (8.89%) Qlik Sense
7 8 (8.89%) QlikView
7 8 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (6.67%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
9 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.22%) SAP HANA
10 2 (2.22%) Tableau
11 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.11%) FitNesse
1 1 (1.11%) Git
1 1 (1.11%) GitLab
1 1 (1.11%) JIRA
1 1 (1.11%) JMeter
1 1 (1.11%) kappa
1 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
1 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
1 1 (1.11%) TestRail
General
1 41 (45.56%) Finance
2 28 (31.11%) Public Sector
3 22 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 21 (23.33%) Electronics
4 21 (23.33%) Manufacturing
4 21 (23.33%) Marketing
4 21 (23.33%) Telecoms
5 18 (20.00%) Publishing
6 11 (12.22%) Banking
7 7 (7.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (6.67%) Back Office
9 5 (5.56%) Front Office
9 5 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (5.56%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.11%) Law
12 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (56.67%) Architect
2 50 (55.56%) Data Architect
3 20 (22.22%) Chief Architect
3 20 (22.22%) Chief Data Architect
4 12 (13.33%) Analyst
5 10 (11.11%) Head of Architecture
5 10 (11.11%) Head of Data Architecture
6 9 (10.00%) Senior
7 7 (7.78%) Data Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Data Modeller
9 5 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 5 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Product Manager
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Java Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Banking Analyst
11 3 (3.33%) Lead
12 2 (2.22%) Data Governance Manager
12 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Architect
12 2 (2.22%) Senior Research Analyst
12 2 (2.22%) Technical Design Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) XML
2 13 (14.44%) REST
3 11 (12.22%) JSON
4 4 (4.44%) FpML
5 3 (3.33%) Middleware
6 2 (2.22%) Kafka
6 2 (2.22%) XML Schema
6 2 (2.22%) XSD
7 1 (1.11%) JAXB
7 1 (1.11%) Playwright
7 1 (1.11%) PySpark
7 1 (1.11%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 13 (14.44%) Data Structures
3 9 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.44%) Equities
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (77.78%) Data Modelling
2 53 (58.89%) Data Architecture
3 42 (46.67%) Data Governance
4 36 (40.00%) UML
5 34 (37.78%) Data Integration
6 32 (35.56%) Data Strategy
7 30 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (28.89%) Business Strategy
9 25 (27.78%) Data Design
10 24 (26.67%) Data Lineage
11 21 (23.33%) Agile
11 21 (23.33%) Digital Marketing
11 21 (23.33%) Programme Management
12 18 (20.00%) ETL
13 17 (18.89%) Data Management
13 17 (18.89%) Microservices
14 16 (17.78%) Analytics
14 16 (17.78%) Project Delivery
15 13 (14.44%) GAP Analysis
16 12 (13.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.44%) SQL
2 8 (8.89%) T-SQL
3 6 (6.67%) Java
4 5 (5.56%) Python
5 2 (2.22%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.22%) VBA
6 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.11%) Scala
6 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) SC Cleared
1 28 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.22%) CFA
4 2 (2.22%) MBA
4 2 (2.22%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) Grafana
1 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) SAP
2 17 (18.89%) Sparx
3 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.00%) Informatica
4 9 (10.00%) Oracle
5 8 (8.89%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.11%) TIBCO