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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 - 366
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Layer 14 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.075% - 0.042%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.94% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 14 0 7
10th Percentile £45,875 - £44,500
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.20%
75th Percentile £92,500 - £52,625
90th Percentile - - £54,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +36.75% -10.00%

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 1,494 1,159 2,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.98% 15.08% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 941 784 2,278
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,938 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +13.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 - 9 £90,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £60,000 - 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 9 (64.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) GCP
2 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (28.57%) dbt
4 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
5 3 (21.43%) AWS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Collibra
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) BigQuery
2 6 (42.86%) Power BI
3 5 (35.71%) Data Lake
4 4 (28.57%) Data Vault
4 4 (28.57%) Metadata
5 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.14%) Looker
6 1 (7.14%) Spark SQL
6 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Retail
4 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
5 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Principal Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Data Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Principal Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Principal Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Principal Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Analytics
2 8 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Data Transformation
5 5 (35.71%) Batch Management
5 5 (35.71%) Cost Control
5 5 (35.71%) Dimensional Modelling
5 5 (35.71%) People Management
6 4 (28.57%) Agile
6 4 (28.57%) Culture Change
6 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
6 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 4 (28.57%) Kimball Methodology
7 3 (21.43%) IT Strategy
7 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Databricks
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft