RDF Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring RDF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 574 -
Rank change year-on-year +55 - -
Permanent jobs citing RDF 5 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.003% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.003% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £68,875 - -
25th Percentile £70,938 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.63% - -
75th Percentile £80,938 - -
90th Percentile £82,625 - -
UK median annual salary £76,250 £82,500 -
% change year-on-year -7.58% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

RDF falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,766 33,029 28,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.64% 88.07% 90.61%
Number of salaries quoted 19,372 15,289 20,851
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,500 £80,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RDF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

RDF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RDF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RDF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing RDF

RDF
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. 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
East of England - 4 £70,000 - 2
North of England - 1 £82,500 -
North West - 1 £82,500 -
RDF
UK

RDF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (20.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Electronics
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) Pandas
2 3 (60.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (20.00%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Semantic Web
2 3 (60.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (20.00%) Linked Data
3 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (20.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (60.00%) Reference Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Development
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (20.00%) Domain Models
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Ontologies
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) SHACL
2 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP