Semantic Layer Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 629 692
Rank change year-on-year +39 +63 +265
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Layer 21 43 20
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.038% 0.090% 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.36% 0.50% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 17
10th Percentile £62,000 £41,925 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% -31.25%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £98,750 - £66,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +45.45% -31.25%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,878 8,554 11,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.73% 17.88% 19.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,853 4,798 9,126
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £81,000 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -4.00%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 +36 9 £80,000 -3.03% 10
North of England +7 6 £90,000 +100.56% 1
North West +18 5 £90,000 +101.12%
West Midlands +25 4 £57,500 - 1
Midlands +23 4 £57,500 - 1
South East +19 2 £75,000 - 6
Yorkshire -18 1 £80,000 +77.78% 1
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
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 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Kinematics
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) GCP
3 6 (28.57%) dbt
3 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 5 (23.81%) Snowflake
5 3 (14.29%) AWS
5 3 (14.29%) Vertex AI
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.76%) Azure AI
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) Dagster
7 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (4.76%) Supabase
7 1 (4.76%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
2 5 (23.81%) Looker
2 5 (23.81%) Tableau
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Airbyte
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Metabase
5 1 (4.76%) Metadata
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Law
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Senior
3 5 (23.81%) Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Principal Data Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Insight Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Insight Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Data Insight Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Insight Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) Next.js
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
1 1 (4.76%) Open3D
1 1 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
1 1 (4.76%) GNSS
1 1 (4.76%) Lidar
1 1 (4.76%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Data Modelling
2 9 (42.86%) Analytics
3 8 (38.10%) Actionable Insight
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) Data Governance
4 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (28.57%) Data Transformation
5 5 (23.81%) AI
5 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
5 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (19.05%) Batch Management
6 4 (19.05%) Cost Control
6 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
6 4 (19.05%) People Management
7 3 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
7 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 3 (14.29%) Culture Change
7 3 (14.29%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) C++
3 1 (4.76%) R
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) MCP
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Databricks
1 5 (23.81%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.76%) Ariba
3 1 (4.76%) Concur
3 1 (4.76%) Foundry
3 1 (4.76%) Informatica
3 1 (4.76%) SAP