Reference Data Management Job Trends in England

Reference Data Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Reference Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 675 681
Rank change year-on-year +84 +6 +249
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data Management 6 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.011% 0.008% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.009% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,500 £82,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -25.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,875 £105,625
90th Percentile - £99,750 £109,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -25.00% +64.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,425 43,642 44,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.74% 89.79%
Number of salaries quoted 25,405 21,401 34,519
10th Percentile £28,675 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £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 £80,000
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%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Reference Data Management job vacancy trend in England

Reference Data Management
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Reference Data Management

Reference Data Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data Management in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Reference Data Management in England

Reference Data Management
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +59 3 £75,000 +15.38% 1
East of England - 3 £70,000 -
Reference Data Management
UK

Reference Data Management
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Governance Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JSON
1 3 (50.00%) Pandas
1 3 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (50.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Management
2 4 (66.67%) Data Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 3 (50.00%) RDF
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Use Case
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP