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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 - 310
Rank change year-on-year - - -13
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Layer 22 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.092% - 0.099%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.43% - 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20 0 5
10th Percentile £42,500 - £40,775
25th Percentile £50,625 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £54,000
90th Percentile £79,375 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +26.92%

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 1,537 984 1,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.42% 10.38% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 662 752
10th Percentile £37,000 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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
Yorkshire - 16 £75,000 - 4
North West - 6 £62,500 - 10
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 3 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Superset
2 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.55%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) dbt
2 10 (45.45%) Power Platform
3 7 (31.82%) Azure
4 6 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (22.73%) AWS
6 4 (18.18%) GCP
7 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.55%) Collibra
9 1 (4.55%) SaaS
9 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) Metadata
2 10 (45.45%) Power BI
3 9 (40.91%) Delta Lake
4 4 (18.18%) Data Vault
5 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
6 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 2 (9.09%) Star Schema
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (4.55%) Flink
7 1 (4.55%) Metabase
7 1 (4.55%) OLAP
7 1 (4.55%) OLAP Cube
7 1 (4.55%) OLTP
7 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (4.55%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
1 2 (9.09%) MLflow
2 1 (4.55%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Finance
3 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Manufacturing
4 5 (22.73%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Retail
5 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
6 2 (9.09%) Legal
7 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Data Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Databricks Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
3 6 (27.27%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Data Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Architect
4 5 (22.73%) Data Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Data Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Principal Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Principal Consultant
5 3 (13.64%) Principal Data Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) PySpark
2 4 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Great Expectations
3 1 (4.55%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) pgvector
3 1 (4.55%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Operational Technology
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Analytics
1 21 (95.45%) Data Modelling
2 18 (81.82%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (77.27%) Lakehouse
4 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
5 13 (59.09%) Metadata Management
6 12 (54.55%) Data Governance
7 11 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
8 10 (45.45%) Data Engineering
8 10 (45.45%) Kimball Methodology
8 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
8 10 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (40.91%) Data Transformation
9 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
10 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
11 7 (31.82%) Data Architecture
11 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (31.82%) Observability
11 7 (31.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (81.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Databricks
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Foundry
3 1 (4.55%) Palantir
3 1 (4.55%) Trend Micro