Semantic Layer Job Trends in the North of England

Semantic Layer
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 - 358
Rank change year-on-year - - +81
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Layer 8 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.056% - 0.061%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.68% - 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 9
10th Percentile £74,250 - -
25th Percentile £78,750 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 - -
90th Percentile £93,625 - £50,800
England median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +65.00% -31.03%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,184 1,105 2,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.24% 16.26% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 751 747 2,251
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,875 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Semantic Layer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Semantic Layer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Semantic Layer in the North of England

Semantic Layer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
North West - 6 £90,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £80,000 - 2
Semantic Layer
England

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (62.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Looker
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Batch Management
2 5 (62.50%) Cost Control
2 5 (62.50%) People Management
3 4 (50.00%) Culture Change
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) CRM
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) ERP
5 1 (12.50%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft