Reference Data Jobs 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 work. 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 574 521 809
Rank change year-on-year -53 +288 -245
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 28 112 92
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.77% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 22 90 52
10th Percentile £44,750 £57,500 £56,461
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,664 £64,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,400 £69,447 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -22.84% +38.46%
75th Percentile £88,438 £92,500 £111,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,118 £143,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £80,147
% change year-on-year +17.86% -12.66% +6.86%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,386 14,549 35,885
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.84% 38.82% 47.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9,322 10,904 17,354
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £49,364 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,977 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £109,531 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Reference Data salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Reference Data
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Reference Data over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Reference Data salary 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.57%) Markit EDM
1 1 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Collibra
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Metadata
2 5 (17.86%) Ataccama
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Legal
3 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Aeronautics
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Aviation
4 2 (7.14%) Publishing
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Local Government
5 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Data Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Consultant
2 5 (17.86%) Data Consultant
2 5 (17.86%) Data Governance Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Data Governance Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Governance Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Management Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Development Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Web Development Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Web Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Analytics Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Ajax
1 2 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
3 4 (14.29%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Equities
5 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.57%) Life Science
5 1 (3.57%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Mac OS
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
1 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 2 (7.14%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Data Governance
1 21 (75.00%) Data Management
2 10 (35.71%) Analytics
2 10 (35.71%) Data Analytics
2 10 (35.71%) Data Strategy
2 10 (35.71%) DataOps
3 9 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (32.14%) Information Management
4 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (21.43%) Data Architecture
5 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 6 (21.43%) Metadata Management
6 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
6 5 (17.86%) Data Lineage
6 5 (17.86%) Master Data Management
6 5 (17.86%) Reference Data Management
7 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
7 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
7 4 (14.29%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) PHP
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) HNC
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Talend
3 2 (7.14%) Bloomberg
3 2 (7.14%) Refinitiv
4 1 (3.57%) FactSet
4 1 (3.57%) Sparx