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 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 676 694 977
Rank change year-on-year +18 +283 -125
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 166 194 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.55% 0.58% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 62 108 180
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,000 £52,375
25th Percentile £61,120 £58,664 £61,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,669 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -5.41% +6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £83,786 £112,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £101,185 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,400 £69,447 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.83% +2.88% +35.00%

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 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Reference Data in the UK

Reference Data
Top 12 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 July 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 -20 123 £65,400 -5.83% 13
Scotland +42 91 £62,500 -
England -70 66 £82,500 +9.03% 14
London +51 34 £90,000 +12.50% 5
Work from Home -37 26 £70,000 - 1
South East -11 10 £82,500 -8.33% 5
South West -29 8 £63,773 -8.17% 2
West Midlands -4 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
Midlands -21 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
East of England -15 4 £60,000 -4.00%
North of England 0 3 - - 5
North West -10 3 - - 3

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 11 (6.63%) CICS
2 8 (4.82%) Apache
3 5 (3.01%) Tomcat
3 5 (3.01%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.41%) SAS
5 3 (1.81%) Confluence
5 3 (1.81%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Aladdin
1 4 (2.41%) Eagle PACE
1 4 (2.41%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.60%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.48%) AWS
2 20 (12.05%) Azure
3 15 (9.04%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (3.01%) Collibra
6 4 (2.41%) dbt
7 2 (1.20%) GCP
8 1 (0.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 44 (26.51%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (33.73%) Metadata
2 15 (9.04%) Power BI
3 14 (8.43%) MongoDB
4 12 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (7.23%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.63%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.63%) DB2
5 11 (6.63%) RDBMS
6 7 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (4.22%) Tableau
7 6 (3.61%) Ataccama
8 5 (3.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.01%) Pentaho
9 4 (2.41%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (2.41%) Dremio
9 4 (2.41%) GIS
9 4 (2.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 4 (2.41%) Spatial Data
9 4 (2.41%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 49 (29.52%) Bitbucket
2 45 (27.11%) Git
3 44 (26.51%) Artifactory
3 44 (26.51%) Jenkins
4 11 (6.63%) ChangeMan
5 5 (3.01%) JIRA
6 2 (1.20%) ERwin
6 2 (1.20%) MagicDraw
7 1 (0.60%) GitLab
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 106 (63.86%) Finance
2 101 (60.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 95 (57.23%) Law
4 86 (51.81%) Marketing
5 45 (27.11%) Social Skills
6 16 (9.64%) Banking
7 14 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (8.43%) Legal
8 12 (7.23%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.61%) Front Office
9 6 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.01%) Local Government
11 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Back Office
12 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.20%) Retail
13 1 (0.60%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.60%) Aviation
13 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (51.20%) Software Engineer
2 51 (30.72%) Lead
3 44 (26.51%) Lead Software Engineer
4 34 (20.48%) Senior
5 31 (18.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 25 (15.06%) Full Stack Engineer
6 25 (15.06%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 25 (15.06%) Java Engineer
6 25 (15.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (9.64%) Analyst
8 11 (6.63%) Mainframe Software Engineer
9 10 (6.02%) Data Governance Analyst
9 10 (6.02%) Data Governance Manager
9 10 (6.02%) Data Manager
9 10 (6.02%) Governance Manager
10 9 (5.42%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.22%) Applications Support
11 7 (4.22%) Architect
11 7 (4.22%) Head of Business Intelligence
12 6 (3.61%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (35.54%) RESTful
2 55 (33.13%) Web Services
3 46 (27.71%) XML
4 44 (26.51%) JSON
4 44 (26.51%) JSON-LD
4 44 (26.51%) LDAP
4 44 (26.51%) OpenID
4 44 (26.51%) SAML
5 25 (15.06%) AngularJS
6 17 (10.24%) Kafka
7 12 (7.23%) React
7 12 (7.23%) Spring
7 12 (7.23%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.63%) Hibernate
8 11 (6.63%) SOAP
8 11 (6.63%) Vue
9 2 (1.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 51 (30.72%) Management Information System
2 44 (26.51%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (8.43%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.63%) Algorithms
4 11 (6.63%) Mainframe
4 11 (6.63%) VSAM
5 10 (6.02%) Onboarding
5 10 (6.02%) Product Ownership
6 9 (5.42%) Taxonomies
7 8 (4.82%) Derivative
7 8 (4.82%) Hedge funds
8 7 (4.22%) Fixed Income
8 7 (4.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (3.61%) Data Structures
10 5 (3.01%) Public Cloud
11 4 (2.41%) Equities
11 4 (2.41%) Linked Data
12 3 (1.81%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.81%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 2 (1.20%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.63%) Linux
2 7 (4.22%) Unix
3 2 (1.20%) AIX
3 2 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (57.23%) Agile
2 90 (54.22%) Software Engineering
3 84 (50.60%) SDLC
4 82 (49.40%) Operational Stability
5 73 (43.98%) Data Modelling
6 61 (36.75%) Roadmaps
7 56 (33.73%) CI/CD
8 49 (29.52%) Data Transformation
9 48 (28.92%) Data Management
9 48 (28.92%) RDF
10 47 (28.31%) Continuous Delivery
11 46 (27.71%) Architectural Design
11 46 (27.71%) Community of Practice
11 46 (27.71%) Information Architecture
11 46 (27.71%) Ontologies
11 46 (27.71%) Test Automation
11 46 (27.71%) Use Case
12 44 (26.51%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (26.51%) Identity Access Management
13 34 (20.48%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 53 (31.93%) SQL
2 48 (28.92%) SPARQL
3 45 (27.11%) Java
4 44 (26.51%) Go
4 44 (26.51%) Prolog
5 28 (16.87%) Python
6 11 (6.63%) COBOL
6 11 (6.63%) JCL
7 5 (3.01%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (0.60%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (5.42%) Degree
2 4 (2.41%) SAS Certification
3 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.60%) HNC
3 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (29.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) GxP
4 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 44 (26.51%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.04%) Docker
3 11 (6.63%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 15 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.01%) Grafana
2 5 (3.01%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 48 (28.92%) Oracle
2 13 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.22%) Sybase
4 5 (3.01%) AppDynamics
4 5 (3.01%) CA
4 5 (3.01%) Databricks
4 5 (3.01%) Splunk
4 5 (3.01%) Talend
5 4 (2.41%) Bloomberg
5 4 (2.41%) Reuters
6 3 (1.81%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.20%) Google
7 2 (1.20%) HP
7 2 (1.20%) Murex
7 2 (1.20%) Sun
8 1 (0.60%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.60%) SAP
8 1 (0.60%) Solace
8 1 (0.60%) Tradeweb