Resource Description Framework (RDF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for RDF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited RDF over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 823 980 1170
Rank change year-on-year +157 +190 -294
Permanent jobs citing RDF 71 13 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.012% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.013% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 11
10th Percentile - £66,875 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £88,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% +54.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £74,375 £97,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £107,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RDF is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing RDF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for RDF in the UK

RDF
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing RDF.

Salary trend for RDF in the UK

RDF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing RDF over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for RDF in the UK

RDF
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RDF within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
UK excluding London +56 70 £60,000 -20.00%
Scotland +4 65 - -
England +113 6 £60,000 -33.33% 1
East of England +27 4 £60,000 -20.00%
Work from Home +83 2 £75,000 -15.49% 1
London +143 1 £75,000 -28.57% 1
Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

RDF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (5.63%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.63%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 65 (91.55%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (91.55%) Metadata
2 4 (5.63%) GIS
2 4 (5.63%) Spatial Data
2 4 (5.63%) Triplestore
3 1 (1.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 65 (91.55%) Artifactory
1 65 (91.55%) Bitbucket
1 65 (91.55%) Git
1 65 (91.55%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (91.55%) Finance
1 65 (91.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 65 (91.55%) Law
1 65 (91.55%) Marketing
2 5 (7.04%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.63%) Local Government
4 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (91.55%) Lead
1 65 (91.55%) Lead Software Engineer
1 65 (91.55%) Software Engineer
2 43 (60.56%) Senior
3 42 (59.15%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
4 4 (5.63%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (1.41%) Developer
5 1 (1.41%) Python Engineer
5 1 (1.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (97.18%) RESTful
2 66 (92.96%) JSON
2 66 (92.96%) XML
3 65 (91.55%) JSON-LD
3 65 (91.55%) LDAP
3 65 (91.55%) OpenID
3 65 (91.55%) SAML
3 65 (91.55%) Web Services
4 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.41%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 69 (97.18%) Reference Data
2 65 (91.55%) Enterprise Cloud
2 65 (91.55%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.63%) Linked Data
4 1 (1.41%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (98.59%) Data Modelling
2 69 (97.18%) Software Engineering
3 66 (92.96%) Ontologies
3 66 (92.96%) Test Automation
4 65 (91.55%) Agile
4 65 (91.55%) Architectural Design
4 65 (91.55%) CI/CD
4 65 (91.55%) Community of Practice
4 65 (91.55%) Continuous Delivery
4 65 (91.55%) Data Pipeline
4 65 (91.55%) Data Transformation
4 65 (91.55%) Identity Access Management
4 65 (91.55%) Information Architecture
4 65 (91.55%) Operational Stability
4 65 (91.55%) Roadmaps
4 65 (91.55%) SDLC
4 65 (91.55%) Use Case
5 5 (7.04%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (5.63%) Data Science
6 4 (5.63%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 70 (98.59%) SPARQL
2 65 (91.55%) Go
2 65 (91.55%) Prolog
3 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.41%) Python
3 1 (1.41%) SQL
3 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) Degree
2 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 65 (91.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft