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 permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 557 770
Rank change year-on-year -4 +213 -235
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 24 110 74
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.27% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.69% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18 87 37
10th Percentile £42,373 £57,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £47,938 £58,664 £56,160
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,700 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -20.00% +34.62%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £101,250
90th Percentile - £106,750 £107,400
UK median annual salary £82,500 £69,447 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.80% -13.19% +6.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,062 15,829 32,110
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.69% 38.46% 46.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,274 11,568 16,863
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,124 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £107,500 £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 11 May 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.17%) Markit EDM
1 1 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (12.50%) Collibra
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Metadata
2 3 (12.50%) Ataccama
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.67%) Legal
5 2 (8.33%) Aeronautics
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Aviation
5 2 (8.33%) Publishing
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Local Government
6 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Data Governance Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Data Governance Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Governance Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Data Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Management Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Development Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Web Development Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Web Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Analytics Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Ajax
1 2 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Taxonomies
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Derivative
4 1 (4.17%) Equities
4 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.17%) Life Science
4 1 (4.17%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
1 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (8.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Data Governance
1 17 (70.83%) Data Management
2 8 (33.33%) DataOps
3 6 (25.00%) Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 6 (25.00%) Metadata Management
4 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (20.83%) Collaborative Culture
4 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) Information Management
4 5 (20.83%) Reference Data Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
5 4 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
6 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Data Lineage
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.50%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PHP
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) HNC
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Talend
3 2 (8.33%) Bloomberg
3 2 (8.33%) Refinitiv
4 1 (4.17%) FactSet
4 1 (4.17%) Sparx