Reference Data Management Jobs

Reference Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Reference Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 893 957 1167
Rank change year-on-year +64 +210 -290
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data Management 15 41 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.038% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.040% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 14 28 20
10th Percentile - £40,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £90,000 £49,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,750 £60,512 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +71.45% -11.01% -9.33%
75th Percentile £127,500 £94,375 £90,000
90th Percentile - £107,875 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £93,750 £65,865
% change year-on-year -33.33% +42.34% +67.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Reference Data Management 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 83,814 101,905 146,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 95.67% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 59,590 59,680 83,719
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

Reference Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Reference Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data Management in the UK

Reference Data Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Reference Data Management.

Salary trend for Reference Data Management in the UK

Reference Data Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Reference Data Management in the UK

Reference Data Management
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data Management within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
London +145 14 £107,500 +78.43% 1
England +105 14 £107,500 +77.65% 1
Work from Home +83 5 £90,000 +5.88%
UK excluding London +13 1 £62,500 -33.33%
Scotland - 1 £62,500 -

Reference Data Management
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Metadata
2 5 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 5 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (33.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Governance Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Data Governance Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Governance Manager
1 5 (33.33%) Head of Data Management
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.67%) Murex Support
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) XML
1 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) AIX
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Data Management
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics
2 7 (46.67%) Data Governance
2 7 (46.67%) Metadata Management
3 6 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (40.00%) Master Data Management
3 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 5 (33.33%) DataOps
4 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 5 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) Cost Management
7 2 (13.33%) Data Privacy
7 2 (13.33%) Data Science
7 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (86.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Databricks
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Murex
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Sun
2 1 (6.67%) Sybase