Reference Data Jobs in the Midlands

Reference Data
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 241 321 315
Rank change year-on-year +80 -6 +39
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 2 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.029% 0.034% 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.099% 0.10% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £53,000
25th Percentile - £64,150 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £66,650 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.91% -11.94%
75th Percentile - £70,400 £61,250
90th Percentile - - £62,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -17.65%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,019 3,853 4,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.07% 33.00% 44.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 2,655 1,485
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £49,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -8.33% +13.68%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £81,250
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the Midlands

Reference Data
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Reference Data in the Midlands

Reference Data
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +48 2 - -
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) gRPC
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Agility
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform