Reference Data Contracts in London

Reference Data
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in London. 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 323 389 450
Rank change year-on-year +66 +61 -62
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 77 93 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.32% 1.03% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 74 111
10th Percentile £425 £404 £488
25th Percentile £514 £503 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £628 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% +0.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £925 £762 £744
90th Percentile - £885 £775
England median daily rate £650 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.70%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - - £83.50
% change year-on-year - - +138.57%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,844 9,036 14,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.93% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 6,567 10,276
10th Percentile £315 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 104 201
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.28 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +34 8 £900 +42.86%
East London - 2 £460 -
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 13 (16.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (12.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) Azure
2 15 (19.48%) AWS
2 15 (19.48%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.49%) GCP
4 4 (5.19%) Cloud Run
4 4 (5.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (3.90%) Azure Stack
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.60%) Dagster
6 2 (2.60%) Serverless
6 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.30%) GitHub
7 1 (1.30%) MinIO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (50.65%) Metadata
2 36 (46.75%) NoSQL
3 35 (45.45%) Data Vault
4 22 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
5 15 (19.48%) Power BI
6 12 (15.58%) SQL Server
7 11 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (11.69%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (10.39%) Pentaho
9 8 (10.39%) QlikView
9 8 (10.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (9.09%) Relational Database
11 4 (5.19%) BigQuery
12 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
12 3 (3.90%) Delta Lake
12 3 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (3.90%) Tableau
13 2 (2.60%) Big Data
13 2 (2.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) kappa
2 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.30%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) git-flow
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.30%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) JMeter
2 1 (1.30%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.30%) Poetry
2 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.30%) TestRail
General
1 41 (53.25%) Finance
2 26 (33.77%) Public Sector
3 24 (31.17%) Social Skills
4 21 (27.27%) Electronics
4 21 (27.27%) Manufacturing
4 21 (27.27%) Marketing
4 21 (27.27%) Telecoms
5 16 (20.78%) Publishing
6 10 (12.99%) Banking
7 6 (7.79%) Back Office
8 5 (6.49%) Front Office
8 5 (6.49%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.30%) Law
11 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (55.84%) Architect
2 42 (54.55%) Data Architect
3 20 (25.97%) Chief Architect
3 20 (25.97%) Chief Data Architect
4 12 (15.58%) Analyst
5 10 (12.99%) Head of Architecture
5 10 (12.99%) Head of Data Architecture
6 9 (11.69%) Senior
7 6 (7.79%) Data Modeller
8 5 (6.49%) Data Analyst
8 5 (6.49%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Banking Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Research Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Senior Research Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Technical Analyst
11 2 (2.60%) Technical Design Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) XML
2 5 (6.49%) REST
3 4 (5.19%) FpML
4 3 (3.90%) JSON
4 3 (3.90%) Kafka
5 2 (2.60%) Middleware
5 2 (2.60%) XML Schema
5 2 (2.60%) XSD
6 1 (1.30%) .NET
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Camel
6 1 (1.30%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.30%) JAXB
6 1 (1.30%) Playwright
6 1 (1.30%) PySpark
6 1 (1.30%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.30%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.19%) Equities
3 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (72.73%) Data Modelling
2 47 (61.04%) Data Architecture
3 35 (45.45%) Data Integration
3 35 (45.45%) UML
4 32 (41.56%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (38.96%) Data Governance
6 26 (33.77%) Business Strategy
6 26 (33.77%) Data Strategy
7 23 (29.87%) Data Design
8 21 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
8 21 (27.27%) Programme Management
9 17 (22.08%) Data Lineage
10 15 (19.48%) Project Delivery
11 13 (16.88%) ETL
12 12 (15.58%) Data Management
13 11 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
14 10 (12.99%) Agile
15 9 (11.69%) Analytics
15 9 (11.69%) Enterprise Architecture
15 9 (11.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.48%) SQL
2 8 (10.39%) T-SQL
3 7 (9.09%) Java
3 7 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (3.90%) Scala
5 2 (2.60%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.60%) VBA
6 1 (1.30%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) PyPy
6 1 (1.30%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) SC Cleared
1 27 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) Degree
3 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.60%) CFA
3 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.60%) MBA
3 2 (2.60%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) Ganglia
1 1 (1.30%) Grafana
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (32.47%) SAP
2 16 (20.78%) Sparx
3 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
4 10 (12.99%) Informatica
4 10 (12.99%) Oracle
5 8 (10.39%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.90%) Databricks
7 2 (2.60%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.60%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.30%) Confluent
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.30%) Solace