Reference Data Contracts with Work from Home Options

Reference Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 406 509
Rank change year-on-year +90 +103 -68
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 25 51 114
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.68% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 89
10th Percentile £465 £459 £424
25th Percentile £513 £518 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £772 £750
90th Percentile £668 £1,004 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £625 £613
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +6.52%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Reference Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Reference Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Reference Data.

Reference Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Reference Data over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Reference Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Azure Stack
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (32.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (12.00%) Power BI
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.00%) Base SAS
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
5 1 (4.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) JMeter
1 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (4.00%) TestRail
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Back Office
4 3 (12.00%) Front Office
4 3 (12.00%) Publishing
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Architect
2 10 (40.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Data Modeller
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Credit Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Finance Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) QA Tester
6 1 (4.00%) Research Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) SAS Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) XML
2 9 (36.00%) REST
3 8 (32.00%) JSON
4 2 (8.00%) FpML
4 2 (8.00%) Middleware
5 1 (4.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Data Structures
2 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (52.00%) Agile
3 11 (44.00%) Data Architecture
4 10 (40.00%) Analytics
4 10 (40.00%) Data Governance
5 9 (36.00%) Data Management
5 9 (36.00%) GAP Analysis
5 9 (36.00%) Microservices
6 8 (32.00%) Data Lineage
6 8 (32.00%) Data Protection
6 8 (32.00%) Data Strategy
6 8 (32.00%) Event-Driven
6 8 (32.00%) Value Proposition
7 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (24.00%) Change Management
8 6 (24.00%) Data Mapping
9 4 (16.00%) Data Science
9 4 (16.00%) Use Case
10 3 (12.00%) Business Strategy
10 3 (12.00%) Digital Twin
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (4.00%) SAS Macro
2 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) CFA
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) MBA
3 1 (4.00%) Postgraduate
3 1 (4.00%) SAS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (48.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle