Reference Data Jobs

Reference Data
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 697 684 938
Rank change year-on-year -13 +254 -121
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 208 238 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 0.60% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 111 144
10th Percentile £50,900 £57,500 £51,625
25th Percentile £61,580 £58,664 £61,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £80,147
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -12.66% +6.86%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £124,500 £107,500 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,400 £69,447 £65,299
% change year-on-year -5.83% +6.35% +35.48%

All Generic Skills
UK

Reference Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36,881 39,847 84,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.57% 43.09% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 23,494 22,189 34,558
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,530 £46,500 £45,229
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the UK

Reference Data
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Reference Data in the UK

Reference Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Reference Data in the UK

Reference Data
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -53 155 £65,400 -5.83% 6
Scotland +44 126 £62,500 - 1
England -98 73 £85,500 +22.63% 13
London +72 44 £90,000 +15.10% 10
Work from Home -53 28 £65,400 -5.83% 9
South East -62 9 £82,500 -17.50%
West Midlands -11 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
Midlands -38 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
South West -64 7 £50,662 -27.05% 1
East of England -28 5 £60,000 -4.00%
North of England -5 1 - - 2
North West -25 1 - - 2

Reference Data
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.29%) CICS
2 5 (2.40%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.40%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.92%) Apache
3 4 (1.92%) SAS
4 3 (1.44%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.87%) AWS
2 23 (11.06%) Azure
3 9 (4.33%) GitHub
4 8 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (2.40%) Collibra
7 4 (1.92%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (31.25%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (40.38%) Metadata
2 25 (12.02%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.25%) Ataccama
3 13 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.29%) DB2
4 11 (5.29%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.85%) Power BI
7 7 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.40%) GIS
9 5 (2.40%) Pentaho
10 4 (1.92%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 4 (1.92%) Spatial Data
10 4 (1.92%) Tableau
10 4 (1.92%) Triplestore
11 3 (1.44%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (35.10%) Git
2 70 (33.65%) Bitbucket
3 65 (31.25%) Artifactory
3 65 (31.25%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.29%) ChangeMan
5 8 (3.85%) GitLab
6 7 (3.37%) JIRA
General
1 146 (70.19%) Finance
2 136 (65.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 130 (62.50%) Law
4 123 (59.13%) Marketing
5 54 (25.96%) Social Skills
6 27 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (9.13%) Legal
8 14 (6.73%) Banking
9 10 (4.81%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.40%) Local Government
12 4 (1.92%) Retail
13 3 (1.44%) Publishing
14 2 (0.96%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.96%) Aviation
14 2 (0.96%) Back Office
14 2 (0.96%) Front Office
14 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (56.73%) Software Engineer
2 66 (31.73%) Lead
3 65 (31.25%) Lead Software Engineer
4 47 (22.60%) Senior
5 42 (20.19%) Senior Software Engineer
6 36 (17.31%) Full Stack Engineer
6 36 (17.31%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 36 (17.31%) Java Engineer
6 36 (17.31%) Java Software Engineer
7 24 (11.54%) Analyst
8 11 (5.29%) Mainframe Software Engineer
9 10 (4.81%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.81%) Data Analyst
9 10 (4.81%) Data Manager
10 9 (4.33%) Data Governance Analyst
10 9 (4.33%) Data Governance Manager
10 9 (4.33%) Governance Manager
11 8 (3.85%) Architect
11 8 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (38.46%) RESTful
2 76 (36.54%) Web Services
3 67 (32.21%) XML
4 65 (31.25%) JSON
4 65 (31.25%) JSON-LD
4 65 (31.25%) LDAP
4 65 (31.25%) OpenID
4 65 (31.25%) SAML
5 36 (17.31%) AngularJS
6 16 (7.69%) Kafka
7 11 (5.29%) Hibernate
7 11 (5.29%) React
7 11 (5.29%) SOAP
7 11 (5.29%) Spring
7 11 (5.29%) Spring Boot
7 11 (5.29%) Vue
8 2 (0.96%) Ajax
8 2 (0.96%) HTML
8 2 (0.96%) XSLT
9 1 (0.48%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (36.06%) Management Information System
2 65 (31.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (6.73%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.29%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.29%) Mainframe
5 11 (5.29%) VSAM
6 9 (4.33%) Hedge funds
6 9 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.85%) Derivative
7 8 (3.85%) Fixed Income
8 7 (3.37%) Credit Derivative
8 7 (3.37%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (3.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 7 (3.37%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.92%) Linked Data
9 4 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.25%) Linux
2 7 (3.37%) Unix
3 6 (2.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.96%) AIX
4 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (60.10%) Software Engineering
2 114 (54.81%) Agile
3 113 (54.33%) SDLC
4 112 (53.85%) Operational Stability
5 101 (48.56%) Data Modelling
6 77 (37.02%) Data Transformation
6 77 (37.02%) Roadmaps
7 76 (36.54%) CI/CD
8 69 (33.17%) RDF
8 69 (33.17%) Use Case
9 67 (32.21%) Continuous Delivery
9 67 (32.21%) Ontologies
9 67 (32.21%) Test Automation
10 65 (31.25%) Architectural Design
10 65 (31.25%) Community of Practice
10 65 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
10 65 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
10 65 (31.25%) Information Architecture
11 48 (23.08%) Data Management
12 43 (20.67%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.17%) SPARQL
2 67 (32.21%) SQL
3 65 (31.25%) Go
3 65 (31.25%) Prolog
4 55 (26.44%) Java
5 37 (17.79%) Python
6 11 (5.29%) COBOL
6 11 (5.29%) JCL
7 5 (2.40%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.96%) Bash
8 2 (0.96%) C#
8 2 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (5.77%) Degree
2 4 (1.92%) SAS Certification
3 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.96%) HNC
4 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (22.60%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.92%) SLA
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) GxP
4 1 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 65 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.21%) Docker
3 11 (5.29%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.40%) Grafana
2 5 (2.40%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.48%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 61 (29.33%) Oracle
2 13 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.37%) Sybase
4 5 (2.40%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.40%) CA
4 5 (2.40%) Databricks
4 5 (2.40%) Splunk
4 5 (2.40%) Talend
5 3 (1.44%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco
6 2 (0.96%) Google
6 2 (0.96%) HP
6 2 (0.96%) Murex
6 2 (0.96%) Refinitiv
6 2 (0.96%) Sun
7 1 (0.48%) ESRI
7 1 (0.48%) FactSet
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Sparx