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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 277 268
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 +162
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Layer 3 10 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.029% 0.10% 0.074%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.30% 0.76% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £73,000 £39,913 £41,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £40,344 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £44,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +78.27% -10.25% -41.18%
75th Percentile £90,625 £49,281 -
90th Percentile £94,000 £49,638 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +41.03% -29.09%

All Database and 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 999 1,308 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.54% 13.25% 22.12%
Number of salaries quoted 703 691 1,197
10th Percentile £31,050 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,238 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,389 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -3.20%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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
North West +21 2 £83,750 +87.15% 3
Yorkshire -13 1 £80,000 +77.78% 1
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 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Looker
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google