Semantic Layer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Semantic Layer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Semantic Layer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 946 1178
Rank change year-on-year +77 +232 -284
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Layer 27 24 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.023% 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.15% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 21 12
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £54,750
25th Percentile £45,960 £52,599 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £65,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -22.39% +45.65%
75th Percentile £62,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,950 £87,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,250 £62,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -26.00% -26.47% +62.78%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Semantic Layer is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Semantic Layer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Semantic Layer.

Salary trend for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +115 26 £58,500 -10.00% 5
Work from Home +106 15 £58,500 -6.40% 4
UK excluding London +22 15 £46,250 -26.00% 2
London +127 12 £60,500 -24.38% 4
North of England +53 8 £46,250 -9.76%
Yorkshire +96 6 £45,000 +20.00%
Midlands - 6 £42,000 -
West Midlands - 6 £42,000 -
North West - 2 £50,750 -
Scotland - 1 £52,067 -

Semantic Layer
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 21 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 17 (62.96%) Azure
3 8 (29.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (25.93%) Serverless
5 5 (18.52%) AWS
5 5 (18.52%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.70%) dbt
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (77.78%) Power BI
2 19 (70.37%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (59.26%) SQL Server
4 13 (48.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (48.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 7 (25.93%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (14.81%) Power Query
9 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
9 2 (7.41%) Data Vault
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (3.70%) Data Mart
10 1 (3.70%) Metadata
10 1 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (3.70%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 7 (25.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 7 (25.93%) Local Government
4 2 (7.41%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Data Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 10 (37.04%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 4 (14.81%) Business Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Power BI Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Data Modeller
6 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Business Intelligence
2 19 (70.37%) ETL
3 16 (59.26%) Data Modelling
4 13 (48.15%) Analytics
5 12 (44.44%) Agile
6 10 (37.04%) Visualisation
7 9 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 9 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (25.93%) Business Analysis
8 7 (25.93%) Data Management
8 7 (25.93%) Master Data Management
8 7 (25.93%) PRINCE2
8 7 (25.93%) Project Management
9 6 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
9 6 (22.22%) ETL Development
9 6 (22.22%) Kimball Methodology
10 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
11 4 (14.81%) Change Data Capture
11 4 (14.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 22 (81.48%) SQL
2 13 (48.15%) T-SQL
3 10 (37.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (25.93%) PL/SQL
5 4 (14.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.93%) Databricks
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) GoldenSource
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) SnapLogic