Reference Data Job Trends in Wales

Reference Data
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.13% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £74,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - -
75th Percentile £74,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £101,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year -20.99% +22.73% +9.03%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 666 219 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 27.77% 31.15% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 328 158 303
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,733 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,457 £40,313 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,171 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,713 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -14.73%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Reference Data relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Wales

Reference Data
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Reference Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Reference Data

Reference Data
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the Wales region over the 6 months to 24 July 2026. 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
South Wales - 3 £74,500 - 1
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Ataccama
1 3 (100.00%) IBM InfoSphere
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO EBX
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO