Reference Data Jobs

Reference Data
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 693 754
Rank change year-on-year +66 +61 +164
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 60 204 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.58% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 37 54 109
10th Percentile £35,800 £47,825 £52,250
25th Percentile £51,698 £65,400 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £124,500 £126,000 £111,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,443 £77,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year -25.88% +11.60% +26.27%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17,692 34,920 45,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.28% 35.57% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,832 22,987 24,196
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £43,099 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in the UK

Reference Data
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Reference Data in the UK

Reference Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Reference Data in the UK

Reference Data
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +178 56 £75,000 -16.67% 107
London +115 35 £85,000 -5.56% 84
UK excluding London +73 24 £57,443 -25.88% 34
Work from Home +153 13 £75,000 +6.32% 29
North of England +85 8 £70,000 - 5
South West +117 5 £48,507 +29.18% 2
North East - 5 £70,000 -
South East +104 4 - - 14
Scotland +7 3 - - 3
Midlands +72 2 - - 3
West Midlands +68 2 - - 2
East of England +60 2 - - 2
North West +33 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £46,500 - 1

Reference Data
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 (8.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Markit EDM
2 3 (5.00%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (3.33%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) Collibra
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.33%) GCP
4 2 (3.33%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Telnet
2 2 (3.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) Big Data
2 12 (20.00%) Metadata
2 12 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 8 (13.33%) Data Lake
4 7 (11.67%) Tableau
5 5 (8.33%) Dremio
5 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.67%) Power BI
7 3 (5.00%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.67%) DTS
8 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.67%) QlikView
8 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (1.67%) SAS EBI
8 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) JUnit
3 1 (1.67%) Maven
3 1 (1.67%) Mockito
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 31 (51.67%) Finance
2 27 (45.00%) Banking
3 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Front Office
6 5 (8.33%) Back Office
6 5 (8.33%) Marketing
7 4 (6.67%) Legal
8 3 (5.00%) Advertising
8 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
8 3 (5.00%) Aviation
8 3 (5.00%) Military
8 3 (5.00%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.67%) Law
10 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Analyst
2 19 (31.67%) Software Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Data Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Lead
5 6 (10.00%) Senior
5 6 (10.00%) Support Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Architect
8 3 (5.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 3 (5.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Implementation Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) Kafka
2 12 (20.00%) gRPC
3 5 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (5.00%) JSON
4 3 (5.00%) XML
5 2 (3.33%) .NET
5 2 (3.33%) Jinja
5 2 (3.33%) React
6 1 (1.67%) Flask
6 1 (1.67%) Motif
6 1 (1.67%) Spring
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 12 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 12 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 12 (20.00%) Replication
2 11 (18.33%) Equities
3 9 (15.00%) Derivative
4 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.67%) Fixed Income
6 3 (5.00%) e-Learning
6 3 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (3.33%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
3 4 (6.67%) Rocky
3 4 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 4 (6.67%) Windows
4 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.33%) CentOS
6 1 (1.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (23.33%) Business Agility
2 14 (23.33%) High Availability
3 13 (21.67%) Concurrent Programming
3 13 (21.67%) Data Management
3 13 (21.67%) Multithreading
3 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
3 13 (21.67%) Unit Testing
4 12 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 12 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 12 (20.00%) Microservices
4 12 (20.00%) SOA
4 12 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 12 (20.00%) TDD
5 11 (18.33%) Data Analysis
6 10 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 9 (15.00%) Client Onboarding
7 9 (15.00%) Data Strategy
7 9 (15.00%) Quality Management
8 8 (13.33%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 21 (35.00%) SQL
3 17 (28.33%) Java
4 12 (20.00%) C#
5 7 (11.67%) Bash
6 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.33%) C++
7 2 (3.33%) Perl
7 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.67%) C
8 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) Kubernetes
1 13 (21.67%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Informatica
2 6 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 6 (10.00%) Databricks
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 5 (8.33%) Reuters
4 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.00%) Refinitiv
6 2 (3.33%) Google
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) FactSet
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) Solace