Resource Description Framework (RDF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring RDF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RDF over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 693 830 951
Rank change year-on-year +137 +121 +234
Permanent jobs citing RDF 19 71 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.072% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.084% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £69,000 - £95,500
25th Percentile £71,875 £55,000 £96,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £60,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -41.46% +78.26%
75th Percentile £103,125 £74,375 £111,250
90th Percentile £110,500 £77,500 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - £60,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - -40.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

RDF 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,972 84,955 96,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 85.58% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,632 59,894 57,116
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,002 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,365 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.73% -9.09% +4.76%

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 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for RDF in the UK

RDF
Top 3 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 13 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
England +165 19 £90,000 +50.00% 6
London +114 15 £75,000 - 4
Work from Home +120 7 £105,000 +40.00% 3

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 5 (26.32%) Apache
1 5 (26.32%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (26.32%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Neptune
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Neo4j
2 5 (26.32%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Triplestore
4 1 (5.26%) ArangoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Senior
2 10 (52.63%) Data Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Data Scientist
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Lead
7 1 (5.26%) Lead Data Scientist
7 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Scientist
7 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) JSON
1 5 (26.32%) LangChain
2 3 (15.79%) XML
3 2 (10.53%) FastAPI
3 2 (10.53%) Hugging Face
3 2 (10.53%) JSON-LD
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Jena
4 1 (5.26%) Flask
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) NetworkX
4 1 (5.26%) Pandas
4 1 (5.26%) Plotly
4 1 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (21.05%) Robotics
3 3 (15.79%) Semantic Web
4 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.26%) Linked Data
4 1 (5.26%) Taxonomies
4 1 (5.26%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Data Modelling
1 12 (63.16%) Machine Learning
2 11 (57.89%) Computer Science
2 11 (57.89%) Data Science
3 9 (47.37%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (36.84%) LLM
5 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 6 (31.58%) ETL
6 6 (31.58%) Knowledge Management
6 6 (31.58%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 6 (31.58%) Semantic Search
6 6 (31.58%) Validation
7 5 (26.32%) Information Retrieval
7 5 (26.32%) Ontologies
8 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
9 3 (15.79%) Data Strategy
9 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) SPARQL
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 2 (10.53%) SHACL
6 1 (5.26%) Gremlin
6 1 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Master's Degree
3 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Argo
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Talend
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI