Reference Data Job Trends in Cardiff

Reference Data
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.15% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £74,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - -
75th Percentile £74,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median annual salary £74,500 - -

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

Reference Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 153 75 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 22.50% 37.31% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 81 53 189
10th Percentile £40,000 £26,250 £26,650
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,170 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £70,000
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -7.69%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Reference Data
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Reference Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Reference Data

Reference Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Ataccama
1 1 (100.00%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO EBX
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO