RDF Job Trends in England

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring RDF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 651 -
Rank change year-on-year +55 - -
Permanent jobs citing RDF 6 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.023% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.025% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £70,250 £51,000 -
25th Percentile £74,375 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 -
75th Percentile £94,375 £96,250 -
90th Percentile £100,750 £97,750 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

RDF 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,077 43,814 44,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.14% 90.86% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 25,929 21,493 34,060
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RDF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

RDF job vacancy trend in England

RDF
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing RDF

RDF
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDF in England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RDF in England

RDF
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the England region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
East of England - 4 £70,000 -
London +56 1 £100,000 +21.21% 2
North West - 1 £82,500 -
North of England - 1 £82,500 -
RDF
UK

RDF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Collibra
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (16.67%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Electronics
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) Pandas
2 3 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (16.67%) JSON-LD
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Semantic Web
2 3 (50.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (16.67%) Linked Data
3 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
3 1 (16.67%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Management
1 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 4 (66.67%) Data Validation
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 3 (50.00%) Reference Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Ontologies
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Domain Models
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) SPARQL
3 2 (33.33%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Foundry
2 1 (16.67%) Palantir