Reference Data Management Jobs

Reference Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Reference Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 891 905 1220
Rank change year-on-year +14 +315 -302
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data Management 16 42 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.044% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.046% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 14 29 24
10th Percentile £83,875 £48,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £58,664 £60,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £60,249 £70,949
Median % change year-on-year +63.90% -15.08% -5.40%
75th Percentile £127,500 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile - £107,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £69,397
% change year-on-year -10.71% +0.87% +76.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reference Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data Management in the UK

Reference Data Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reference Data Management.

Salary trend for Reference Data Management in the UK

Reference Data Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Reference Data Management in the UK

Reference Data Management
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +117 15 £107,500 +78.43% 5
England +13 15 £107,500 +78.43% 6
Work from Home +21 5 £90,000 +38.20% 4
UK excluding London -49 1 £62,500 -10.71% 1
Scotland -68 1 £62,500 -

Reference Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Metadata
2 5 (31.25%) Data Lake
2 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
2 5 (31.25%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Back Office
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Law
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
6 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Data Governance Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Data Governance Manager
1 5 (31.25%) Data Manager
1 5 (31.25%) Governance Manager
1 5 (31.25%) Head of Data Management
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 2 (12.50%) Murex Support
4 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) XML
1 2 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) AIX
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Data Management
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Analytics
2 7 (43.75%) Collaborative Culture
2 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (43.75%) Data Governance
2 7 (43.75%) Master Data Management
2 7 (43.75%) Metadata Management
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 5 (31.25%) Data Strategy
4 5 (31.25%) DataOps
4 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 5 (31.25%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
7 2 (12.50%) Data Science
7 2 (12.50%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Databricks
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) HP
2 2 (12.50%) Murex
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Sun
2 2 (12.50%) Sybase