Reference Data Jobs in London

Reference Data
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 452 565
Rank change year-on-year +89 +113 +174
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 29 40 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.42% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24 30 54
10th Percentile £34,900 £72,925 £55,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £85,000 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £117,500 £120,625 £92,500
90th Percentile £138,000 £127,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £86,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.70% +22.86% -15.15%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,572 9,631 15,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 44.39% 40.34% 46.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,991 6,767 10,325
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £44,010
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £130,000 £123,750
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Reference Data in London

Reference Data
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +40 8 £43,500 -64.49% 2
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Collibra
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Telnet
2 2 (6.90%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Metadata
2 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.34%) Data Mining
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
4 2 (6.90%) Big Data
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.45%) DTS
5 1 (3.45%) QlikView
5 1 (3.45%) SAS EBI
5 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JUnit
2 1 (3.45%) Maven
2 1 (3.45%) Mockito
General
1 15 (51.72%) Finance
2 12 (41.38%) Banking
2 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Front Office
4 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Legal
6 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
2 5 (17.24%) Support Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Banking Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Market Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Market Data Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Qualitative Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Market Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) gRPC
3 2 (6.90%) React
4 1 (3.45%) Flask
4 1 (3.45%) Motif
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Derivative
1 6 (20.69%) Onboarding
2 5 (17.24%) Equities
3 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
4 3 (10.34%) Fixed Income
4 3 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
5 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
5 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.90%) Replication
6 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
6 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.45%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Rocky
3 3 (10.34%) Ubuntu
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
4 2 (6.90%) CentOS
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Data Management
2 8 (27.59%) Data Governance
2 8 (27.59%) Quality Management
3 6 (20.69%) Data Strategy
3 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) Client Onboarding
4 5 (17.24%) Data Lineage
4 5 (17.24%) Reference Data Management
4 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
4 5 (17.24%) Use Case
5 4 (13.79%) Business Agility
5 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.79%) Customer Service
5 4 (13.79%) High Availability
5 4 (13.79%) Metadata Management
5 4 (13.79%) Systematic Trading
6 3 (10.34%) Data Privacy
6 3 (10.34%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Bash
4 5 (17.24%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) Perl
5 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Informatica
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.34%) Refinitiv
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.45%) FactSet
5 1 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.45%) Solace