Reference Data Management Job Trends in the East of England

Reference Data Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 156 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data Management 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.083% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% - -
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 - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -23.53% +34.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,931 3,471 1,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 80.77% 80.00% 92.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 1,518 1,324
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +1.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £67,625
90th Percentile £76,700 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Reference Data Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Reference Data Management
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Reference Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Reference Data Management

Reference Data Management
Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England 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
Bedfordshire - 3 £70,000 - 4
Reference Data Management
England

Reference Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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