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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 598 595
Rank change year-on-year +53 -3 +131
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 34 165 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.67% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 54
10th Percentile £46,638 £55,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £47,231 £57,352 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £66,650 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -13.81% -4.03% +3.12%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £90,625
90th Percentile - £87,750 £100,829
UK median annual salary £71,250 £82,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +17.86% -12.50%

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 13,541 24,499 24,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.12% 32.71% 42.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,957 15,292 10,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
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 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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Scotland +3 9 - - 2
South East +76 8 - - 6
South West +112 7 £48,507 -4.25% 4
North of England +43 6 £70,000 - 1
North East - 3 £70,000 -
Midlands +61 2 - -
West Midlands +52 2 - -
East of England +47 2 - - 2
North West +3 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £46,500 - 1
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 3 (8.82%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (8.82%) Markit EDM
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (5.88%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) Big Data
2 10 (29.41%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 4 (11.76%) Tableau
4 3 (8.82%) Dremio
5 2 (5.88%) Metadata
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.94%) Power BI
6 1 (2.94%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
General
1 21 (61.76%) Finance
2 16 (47.06%) Banking
3 9 (26.47%) Law
4 8 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (20.59%) Aerospace
5 7 (20.59%) Aviation
5 7 (20.59%) Military
6 5 (14.71%) Marketing
7 4 (11.76%) Legal
8 3 (8.82%) Back Office
9 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.94%) Retail
9 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (79.41%) Software Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Java Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) GCP Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) Kafka
2 10 (29.41%) gRPC
3 8 (23.53%) Spring
4 7 (20.59%) XML
5 6 (17.65%) React
6 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.88%) Jinja
7 2 (5.88%) Node.js
7 2 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Data Structures
1 10 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Public Cloud
1 10 (29.41%) Replication
2 7 (20.59%) e-Learning
3 3 (8.82%) Equities
3 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Software Engineering
2 12 (35.29%) Microservices
3 11 (32.35%) Agile
3 11 (32.35%) Data Analysis
3 11 (32.35%) SDLC
4 10 (29.41%) Business Agility
4 10 (29.41%) Code Quality
4 10 (29.41%) Concurrent Programming
4 10 (29.41%) High Availability
4 10 (29.41%) Multithreading
4 10 (29.41%) SOA
4 10 (29.41%) Software Delivery
4 10 (29.41%) TDD
4 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
4 10 (29.41%) Unit Testing
5 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
6 8 (23.53%) Operational Stability
7 7 (20.59%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (20.59%) Innovative Thinking
7 7 (20.59%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Java
2 16 (47.06%) SQL
3 10 (29.41%) C#
4 7 (20.59%) PL/SQL
5 6 (17.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Kubernetes
1 11 (32.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) Bloomberg
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) Reuters
3 2 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) SAP