Semantic Layer Job Trends in the North West

Semantic Layer
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 228 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Permanent jobs citing Semantic Layer 1 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.021% 0.058% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.18% 0.45% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £41,063 -
25th Percentile £72,500 £43,219 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £49,375 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.90% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £52,969 -
90th Percentile - £53,588 -
England median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.00% +8.70% -32.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 564 893 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.67% 12.89% 20.62%
Number of salaries quoted 400 427 662
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,105 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £83,700
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,799
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.18% -1.12%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in the North West

Semantic Layer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Manchester +30 1 £75,000 +51.90% 2
Semantic Layer
England

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks