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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 430 449
Rank change year-on-year +47 +19 -37
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 15 17 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.074% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.23% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 24
10th Percentile £505 £463 £376
25th Percentile £525 £472 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -1.44% -6.31%
75th Percentile £585 £541 £775
90th Percentile - £573 £784
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 5,976 7,381 9,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.66% 32.21% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 4,949 6,853
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 743 412 428
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.12 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

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 2 June 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 West - 13 £568 - 2
North of England - 13 £568 - 2
South West +6 4 £550 +10.00% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
Scotland +41 1 £500 - 1
East of England +8 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP MDG
2 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Azure Stack
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (20.00%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Base SAS
4 1 (6.67%) SAS Data Integration Studio
General
1 7 (46.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
5 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Data Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Data Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Product Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Data Governance Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Governance Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Financial Leader
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
1 6 (40.00%) REST
1 6 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (46.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Data Modelling
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) Data Governance
4 7 (46.67%) Analytics
4 7 (46.67%) Change Management
4 7 (46.67%) Data Lineage
4 7 (46.67%) Data Management
4 7 (46.67%) Data Protection
4 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
5 6 (40.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (40.00%) Data Mapping
5 6 (40.00%) Data Strategy
5 6 (40.00%) Event-Driven
5 6 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (40.00%) Microservices
5 6 (40.00%) Value Proposition
6 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
6 5 (33.33%) ETL
6 5 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (33.33%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PhD
2 1 (6.67%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) SAP