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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 521 570
Rank change year-on-year +65 +49 -64
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 94 115 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.83% 0.73% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 90 136
10th Percentile £428 £411 £459
25th Percentile £518 £475 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £925 £747 £750
90th Percentile - £850 £788
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £613
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +6.52%
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 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 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
London +66 77 £700 +11.55% 10
North of England - 14 £550 - 2
North West - 14 £550 - 2
South West +1 5 £550 +15.79% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
South East +12 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 13 (13.83%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (10.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.13%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.06%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.06%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 15 (15.96%) AWS
2 15 (15.96%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Purview
4 11 (11.70%) Azure Stack
5 5 (5.32%) GCP
6 4 (4.26%) Cloud Run
6 4 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.13%) Dagster
7 2 (2.13%) Serverless
7 2 (2.13%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.06%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub
8 1 (1.06%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (45.74%) Metadata
2 38 (40.43%) NoSQL
3 36 (38.30%) Data Vault
4 23 (24.47%) Metadata Repository
5 20 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (15.96%) Power BI
7 12 (12.77%) SQL Server
8 11 (11.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 9 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (9.57%) Qlik Sense
10 8 (8.51%) Data Lake
10 8 (8.51%) Pentaho
10 8 (8.51%) QlikView
10 8 (8.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (7.45%) Relational Database
12 4 (4.26%) BigQuery
13 3 (3.19%) Delta Lake
13 3 (3.19%) Tableau
14 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
14 2 (2.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) kappa
2 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.06%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.06%) Git
2 1 (1.06%) git-flow
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) JMeter
2 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.06%) Poetry
2 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.06%) TestRail
General
1 41 (43.62%) Finance
2 28 (29.79%) Public Sector
3 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
4 21 (22.34%) Electronics
4 21 (22.34%) Manufacturing
4 21 (22.34%) Marketing
4 21 (22.34%) Telecoms
5 17 (18.09%) Publishing
6 11 (11.70%) Banking
7 7 (7.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (6.38%) Back Office
9 5 (5.32%) Front Office
9 5 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (5.32%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.06%) Law
12 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (55.32%) Architect
2 51 (54.26%) Data Architect
3 20 (21.28%) Chief Architect
3 20 (21.28%) Chief Data Architect
4 12 (12.77%) Analyst
5 10 (10.64%) Head of Architecture
5 10 (10.64%) Head of Data Architecture
6 9 (9.57%) Senior
7 7 (7.45%) Data Manager
7 7 (7.45%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.32%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 4 (4.26%) Product Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Banking Analyst
11 2 (2.13%) Data Governance Manager
11 2 (2.13%) Lead
11 2 (2.13%) Senior Research Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) XML
2 13 (13.83%) REST
3 11 (11.70%) JSON
4 4 (4.26%) FpML
5 3 (3.19%) Kafka
6 2 (2.13%) Middleware
6 2 (2.13%) XML Schema
6 2 (2.13%) XSD
7 1 (1.06%) .NET
7 1 (1.06%) Apache Camel
7 1 (1.06%) Great Expectations
7 1 (1.06%) JAXB
7 1 (1.06%) Playwright
7 1 (1.06%) PySpark
7 1 (1.06%) SAP PI
7 1 (1.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.96%) Product Ownership
2 13 (13.83%) Data Structures
3 9 (9.57%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.26%) Equities
4 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.06%) IoT
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Life Science
6 1 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (75.53%) Data Modelling
2 53 (56.38%) Data Architecture
3 41 (43.62%) Data Governance
4 36 (38.30%) UML
5 35 (37.23%) Data Integration
6 32 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (34.04%) Data Strategy
7 26 (27.66%) Business Strategy
8 24 (25.53%) Data Design
9 23 (24.47%) Data Lineage
10 22 (23.40%) Agile
11 21 (22.34%) Digital Marketing
11 21 (22.34%) Programme Management
12 19 (20.21%) Data Management
13 18 (19.15%) ETL
14 17 (18.09%) Analytics
14 17 (18.09%) Microservices
15 15 (15.96%) Project Delivery
16 13 (13.83%) Data Protection
16 13 (13.83%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.96%) SQL
2 8 (8.51%) T-SQL
3 7 (7.45%) Java
3 7 (7.45%) Python
4 3 (3.19%) Scala
5 2 (2.13%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.13%) VBA
6 1 (1.06%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.06%) PyPy
6 1 (1.06%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) SC Cleared
1 27 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) Degree
3 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.13%) CFA
4 2 (2.13%) MBA
4 2 (2.13%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) QA
3 1 (1.06%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Ganglia
1 1 (1.06%) Grafana
1 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (28.72%) SAP
2 17 (18.09%) Sparx
3 13 (13.83%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.64%) Informatica
4 10 (10.64%) Oracle
5 8 (8.51%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.19%) Databricks
7 2 (2.13%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.13%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.06%) Confluent
8 1 (1.06%) IBM
8 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.06%) Solace
8 1 (1.06%) Teradata