Reference Data Jobs in the South West

Reference Data
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 294 245
Rank change year-on-year +116 -49 +64
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 6 7 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.17% 0.072% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.24% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 28
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,231 £36,825 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £50,662 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% -27.05% +6.84%
75th Percentile £56,485 £66,887 £77,715
90th Percentile £60,506 - £86,794
England median annual salary £72,500 £86,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.70% +22.86% -15.15%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,117 2,918 2,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.07% 30.04% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 561 2,039 1,376
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,989 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,250 £38,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £68,525 £66,137 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
England 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 the South West

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the South West

Reference Data
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in the South West.

Salary trend for Reference Data in the South West

Reference Data
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +65 5 £48,507 -23.94% 1
Dorset +43 1 - - 1
Reference Data
England

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) GCP Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) gRPC
2 2 (33.33%) Jinja
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Data Mapping
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Domain Models
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Business Agility
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle