Reference Data Jobs in Scotland

Reference Data
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 150 212
Rank change year-on-year +8 +62 -61
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 3 138 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.11% 2.05% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 4.24% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £43,500
25th Percentile - £56,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -
75th Percentile - £68,750 £55,000
90th Percentile - - £56,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £86,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.79% +22.86% -17.65%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Reference Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 701 3,257 1,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.88% 48.35% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 424 853 805
10th Percentile £36,625 £30,150 £32,492
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,433 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,519 £82,548 £89,852
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in Scotland

Reference Data
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in Scotland.

Salary trend for Reference Data in Scotland

Reference Data
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh - 2 - -
Glasgow +66 1 - - 3
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) gRPC
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Agility
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Presales
2 1 (33.33%) Reference Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft