Linked Data Job Trends

Linked Data
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linked Data in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Linked Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 708 710
Rank change year-on-year +58 +2 +310
Permanent jobs citing Linked Data 1 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.005% 0.015% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £40,250 £49,250
25th Percentile - £40,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £42,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -51.43% -
75th Percentile - £67,500 £96,875
90th Percentile - £81,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -43.33%

All Generic Skills
UK

Linked 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,700 20,404 19,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.99% 36.95% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,365 9,748 14,031
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,080 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.45% -0.91% -

Linked Data
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Linked Data relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Linked Data job vacancy trend in the UK

Linked Data
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Linked Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Linked Data

Linked Data
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linked Data within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
England +74 1 - - 7
UK excluding London +63 1 - - 6
Work from Home - 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - - 2

Linked Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JSON-LD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Web
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SHACL
1 1 (100.00%) SPARQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP