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 have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 698 755 943
Rank change year-on-year +57 +188 -155
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 208 239 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.54% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 57 108 113
10th Percentile £50,900 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,150 £58,664 £60,660
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £110,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,900 £69,447 £61,882
% change year-on-year -2.23% +12.22% +28.39%

All Generic Skills
UK

Reference Data is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +44 164 £67,900 -2.23% 6
Scotland +55 138 £62,500 +25.00%
England -55 64 £90,000 +28.57% 23
London +76 38 £90,000 +5.88% 16
Work from Home +9 22 £70,743 -14.25% 8
South East -23 10 £82,500 -17.50% 1
South West -33 6 £37,550 -45.93% 1
East of England -2 5 £60,000 -4.00% 1
West Midlands +13 4 £66,650 +15.91% 1
Midlands +10 4 £66,650 +15.91% 1
North of England +38 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 1

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
3 3 (1.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.48%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.35%) AWS
2 23 (11.06%) Azure
3 9 (4.33%) GitHub
4 5 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (2.40%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.44%) GCP
6 2 (0.96%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 65 (31.25%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (39.90%) Metadata
2 35 (16.83%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.73%) RDBMS
5 11 (5.29%) DB2
6 10 (4.81%) Ataccama
7 7 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.88%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.40%) GIS
9 5 (2.40%) Pentaho
9 5 (2.40%) Power BI
10 4 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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 66 (31.73%) Jenkins
4 65 (31.25%) Artifactory
5 11 (5.29%) ChangeMan
6 8 (3.85%) GitLab
7 7 (3.37%) JIRA
8 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 157 (75.48%) Finance
2 148 (71.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 141 (67.79%) Law
4 135 (64.90%) Marketing
5 49 (23.56%) Social Skills
6 25 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (7.69%) Legal
8 12 (5.77%) Banking
9 9 (4.33%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.40%) Local Government
12 3 (1.44%) Publishing
12 3 (1.44%) Retail
13 2 (0.96%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.96%) Aviation
13 2 (0.96%) Back Office
13 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.96%) Front Office
13 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 67 (32.21%) Lead
3 65 (31.25%) Lead Software Engineer
4 48 (23.08%) Full Stack Engineer
4 48 (23.08%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 48 (23.08%) Java Engineer
4 48 (23.08%) Java Software Engineer
5 47 (22.60%) Senior
6 42 (20.19%) Senior Software Engineer
7 21 (10.10%) Analyst
8 11 (5.29%) Mainframe Software Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Architect
9 9 (4.33%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (3.37%) Data Manager
12 6 (2.88%) Data Governance Analyst
12 6 (2.88%) Data Governance Manager
12 6 (2.88%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (40.38%) RESTful
2 79 (37.98%) Web Services
3 66 (31.73%) 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 49 (23.56%) AngularJS
6 19 (9.13%) Kafka
7 15 (7.21%) Hibernate
7 15 (7.21%) Spring
7 15 (7.21%) Spring Boot
8 14 (6.73%) React
8 14 (6.73%) SOAP
8 14 (6.73%) Vue
9 2 (0.96%) Ajax
9 2 (0.96%) HTML
10 1 (0.48%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.48%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 72 (34.62%) Management Information System
2 65 (31.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 16 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.73%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 11 (5.29%) Mainframe
6 11 (5.29%) Onboarding
6 11 (5.29%) VSAM
7 9 (4.33%) Hedge funds
7 9 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.85%) Derivative
8 8 (3.85%) Fixed Income
9 7 (3.37%) Credit Derivative
9 7 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (3.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 6 (2.88%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.92%) Linked Data
11 4 (1.92%) Taxonomies
12 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.25%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Unix
3 5 (2.40%) Windows
4 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.96%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.48%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (65.87%) Software Engineering
2 125 (60.10%) SDLC
3 124 (59.62%) Agile
3 124 (59.62%) Operational Stability
4 95 (45.67%) Data Modelling
5 76 (36.54%) CI/CD
5 76 (36.54%) Data Transformation
6 75 (36.06%) Roadmaps
7 69 (33.17%) RDF
8 68 (32.69%) 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 51 (24.52%) Artificial Intelligence
12 49 (23.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.06%) SQL
2 69 (33.17%) SPARQL
3 67 (32.21%) Java
4 65 (31.25%) Go
4 65 (31.25%) Prolog
5 46 (22.12%) Python
6 11 (5.29%) COBOL
6 11 (5.29%) JCL
7 5 (2.40%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.96%) C#
8 2 (0.96%) PHP
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (1.92%) SAS Certification
3 2 (0.96%) HNC
3 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (0.48%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.48%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.48%) GDPR
3 1 (0.48%) GxP
3 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.65%) Docker
3 11 (5.29%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.40%) Grafana
2 5 (2.40%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.48%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 72 (34.62%) Oracle
2 13 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.88%) Sybase
4 5 (2.40%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.40%) CA
4 5 (2.40%) Databricks
4 5 (2.40%) Splunk
5 3 (1.44%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.96%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.96%) Cisco
6 2 (0.96%) Refinitiv
6 2 (0.96%) Talend
7 1 (0.48%) ESRI
7 1 (0.48%) FactSet
7 1 (0.48%) Google
7 1 (0.48%) HP
7 1 (0.48%) Murex
7 1 (0.48%) SAP
7 1 (0.48%) Sparx
7 1 (0.48%) Sun