Reference Data Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Reference Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Reference Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - 551
Rank change year-on-year - - +254
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data Management 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.95%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £61,835
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -23.53% +39.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Reference Data Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,561 39,252 28,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 81.41% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,580 19,304 21,029
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,837
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Reference Data Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Reference Data Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Reference Data Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Reference Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Reference Data Management

Reference Data Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
East of England - 3 £70,000 - 4
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Reference Data Management
UK

Reference Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (50.00%) Electronics
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
1 3 (75.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (75.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (75.00%) RDF
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Development
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Dataiku