Reference Data Management Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Reference Data Management
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Reference Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data Management 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bedfordshire 1.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Reference Data Management 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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 371 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 76.14% 81.36% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 131 159 127
10th Percentile £27,250 £38,500 £28,100
25th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +1.38%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Reference Data Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Reference Data Management job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Reference Data Management
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Reference Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Reference Data Management

Reference Data Management
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data Management within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 November 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
Luton - 1 - - 2
Reference Data Management
East of England

Reference Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Pandas
1 3 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Reference Data
1 3 (100.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) RDF
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP