Reference Data Jobs in England

Reference Data
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 756 747
Rank change year-on-year +163 -9 +199
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 55 66 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.077% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.22% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 35 53 105
10th Percentile £39,600 £55,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £53,349 £74,083 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £109,375 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £125,500 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £86,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.79% +22.86% -17.65%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,037 29,755 40,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.82% 34.92% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,791 20,890 21,646
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £98,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in England.

Salary trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +105 34 £85,000 -5.56% 56
North of England +92 8 £70,000 -
South West +106 5 £48,507 +29.18% 1
North East - 5 £70,000 -
South East +102 4 - - 17
Midlands +80 2 - -
East of England +54 2 - - 1
West Midlands +48 2 - -
North West +33 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £46,500 -
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Markit EDM
2 3 (5.45%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (3.64%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 7 (12.73%) Collibra
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.64%) GCP
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Telnet
2 2 (3.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) Big Data
1 11 (20.00%) Metadata
2 10 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.73%) Data Lake
3 7 (12.73%) Tableau
4 5 (9.09%) Dremio
5 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.45%) Data Mining
6 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.45%) Power BI
7 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.82%) DTS
7 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.82%) QlikView
7 1 (1.82%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.82%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) JUnit
2 1 (1.82%) Maven
2 1 (1.82%) Mockito
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
General
1 29 (52.73%) Finance
2 24 (43.64%) Banking
3 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Front Office
5 5 (9.09%) Back Office
5 5 (9.09%) Marketing
6 4 (7.27%) Legal
7 3 (5.45%) Advertising
7 3 (5.45%) Aerospace
7 3 (5.45%) Aviation
7 3 (5.45%) Military
7 3 (5.45%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.82%) Law
9 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Analyst
2 17 (30.91%) Software Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Data Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Lead
5 6 (10.91%) Senior
6 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Support Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Banking Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Architect
8 3 (5.45%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Implementation Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.64%) Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Financial Analyst
9 2 (3.64%) GCP Software Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Market Data Software Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Senior Market Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) Kafka
2 10 (18.18%) gRPC
3 4 (7.27%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (5.45%) JSON
4 3 (5.45%) XML
5 2 (3.64%) .NET
5 2 (3.64%) Jinja
5 2 (3.64%) React
6 1 (1.82%) Flask
6 1 (1.82%) Motif
6 1 (1.82%) Spring
6 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 10 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 10 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (18.18%) Equities
2 10 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 10 (18.18%) Replication
3 9 (16.36%) Derivative
4 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.45%) e-Learning
5 3 (5.45%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.64%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.82%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Unix
3 3 (5.45%) Rocky
3 3 (5.45%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.45%) Windows
4 2 (3.64%) CentOS
4 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.82%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) Software Engineering
2 12 (21.82%) Business Agility
2 12 (21.82%) Data Management
2 12 (21.82%) High Availability
3 11 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 11 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 11 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 11 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 11 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 10 (18.18%) Code Quality
4 10 (18.18%) Microservices
4 10 (18.18%) SOA
4 10 (18.18%) Software Delivery
4 10 (18.18%) TDD
5 9 (16.36%) Computer Science
5 9 (16.36%) Quality Management
6 8 (14.55%) Client Onboarding
6 8 (14.55%) Data Strategy
6 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 24 (43.64%) Python
2 19 (34.55%) SQL
3 15 (27.27%) Java
4 10 (18.18%) C#
5 6 (10.91%) Bash
6 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) C++
7 2 (3.64%) Perl
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (38.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 10 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (5.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Informatica
2 6 (10.91%) Bloomberg
3 5 (9.09%) Databricks
3 5 (9.09%) Reuters
4 4 (7.27%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.45%) Refinitiv
6 2 (3.64%) Google
6 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.64%) SAP
7 1 (1.82%) FactSet
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle
7 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.82%) Solace