Reference Data Jobs in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 564 807
Rank change year-on-year -20 +243 -104
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 123 115 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.24% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.60% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 25 57 26
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,664 £58,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,400 £69,447 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +2.88% +35.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,548 £77,017
90th Percentile £86,000 £100,000 £106,875
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,669 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.03% -5.41% +6.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,220 19,230 34,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.98% 39.94% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,541 10,409 17,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Reference Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reference Data in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Reference Data in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Reference Data in the UK excluding London

Reference Data
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Scotland +42 91 £62,500 -
South East -11 10 £82,500 -8.33% 5
South West -29 8 £63,773 -8.17% 2
West Midlands -4 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
Midlands -21 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
East of England -15 4 £60,000 -4.00%
North of England 0 3 - - 5
North West -10 3 - - 3
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (8.94%) CICS
2 5 (4.07%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.07%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.25%) Apache
3 4 (3.25%) SAS
4 3 (2.44%) Confluence
4 3 (2.44%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.58%) AWS
2 9 (7.32%) Azure
3 2 (1.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (35.77%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (36.59%) Metadata
2 14 (11.38%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.94%) DB2
3 11 (8.94%) RDBMS
3 11 (8.94%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.13%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.07%) Pentaho
7 4 (3.25%) GIS
7 4 (3.25%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 4 (3.25%) Spatial Data
7 4 (3.25%) Triplestore
8 3 (2.44%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (39.84%) Bitbucket
2 44 (35.77%) Artifactory
2 44 (35.77%) Git
2 44 (35.77%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.94%) ChangeMan
4 5 (4.07%) JIRA
General
1 94 (76.42%) Finance
1 94 (76.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 91 (73.98%) Law
3 86 (69.92%) Marketing
4 23 (18.70%) Social Skills
5 9 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.50%) Legal
7 6 (4.88%) Banking
7 6 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.25%) Local Government
9 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.81%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.81%) Aviation
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (69.11%) Software Engineer
2 50 (40.65%) Lead
3 44 (35.77%) Lead Software Engineer
4 32 (26.02%) Senior
5 31 (25.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (20.33%) Full Stack Engineer
6 25 (20.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 25 (20.33%) Java Engineer
6 25 (20.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (8.94%) Mainframe Software Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Head of Business Intelligence
9 6 (4.88%) Data Modeller
9 6 (4.88%) Product Lead
10 5 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.07%) Applications Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Software Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Data Science Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (47.97%) RESTful
2 55 (44.72%) Web Services
3 44 (35.77%) JSON
3 44 (35.77%) JSON-LD
3 44 (35.77%) LDAP
3 44 (35.77%) OpenID
3 44 (35.77%) SAML
3 44 (35.77%) XML
4 25 (20.33%) AngularJS
5 16 (13.01%) Kafka
6 11 (8.94%) Hibernate
6 11 (8.94%) React
6 11 (8.94%) SOAP
6 11 (8.94%) Spring
6 11 (8.94%) Spring Boot
6 11 (8.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (41.46%) Management Information System
2 44 (35.77%) Enterprise Cloud
3 11 (8.94%) Algorithms
3 11 (8.94%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.94%) Mainframe
3 11 (8.94%) VSAM
4 10 (8.13%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.25%) Linked Data
7 3 (2.44%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (2.44%) Derivative
7 3 (2.44%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.44%) Hedge funds
7 3 (2.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.63%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.32%) Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (72.36%) Software Engineering
2 83 (67.48%) Agile
3 80 (65.04%) Operational Stability
3 80 (65.04%) SDLC
4 61 (49.59%) Data Modelling
5 55 (44.72%) CI/CD
6 53 (43.09%) Roadmaps
7 48 (39.02%) RDF
8 47 (38.21%) Data Transformation
9 46 (37.40%) Use Case
10 45 (36.59%) Ontologies
11 44 (35.77%) Architectural Design
11 44 (35.77%) Community of Practice
11 44 (35.77%) Continuous Delivery
11 44 (35.77%) Data Pipeline
11 44 (35.77%) Identity Access Management
11 44 (35.77%) Information Architecture
11 44 (35.77%) Test Automation
12 30 (24.39%) Machine Learning
13 28 (22.76%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.02%) SPARQL
2 44 (35.77%) Go
2 44 (35.77%) Prolog
3 41 (33.33%) Java
4 33 (26.83%) SQL
5 22 (17.89%) Python
6 11 (8.94%) COBOL
6 11 (8.94%) JCL
7 5 (4.07%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (6.50%) Degree
2 4 (3.25%) SAS Certification
3 1 (0.81%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 44 (35.77%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.20%) Docker
3 11 (8.94%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 15 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.07%) Grafana
2 5 (4.07%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 44 (35.77%) Oracle
2 8 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.07%) AppDynamics
3 5 (4.07%) CA
3 5 (4.07%) Splunk
3 5 (4.07%) Sybase
4 3 (2.44%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.63%) Google
6 1 (0.81%) SAP