Reference Data Jobs in England

Reference Data
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in permanent job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 720 959
Rank change year-on-year -46 +239 -204
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 66 203 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.076% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.53% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 52 103 118
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,088 £58,664 £61,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,000 £69,447 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -15.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £108,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £82,500 £69,447 £80,000
% change year-on-year +18.80% -13.19% +6.67%

All Generic Skills
England

Reference Data is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 29,822 38,083 63,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.48% 43.17% 46.91%
Number of salaries quoted 20,875 20,890 30,322
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,570 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Reference Data in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Reference Data in England

Reference Data
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Reference Data within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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 +74 38 £90,000 +17.83% 20
South East -30 10 £82,500 -17.50% 3
South West -44 7 £50,662 -27.05% 1
West Midlands +9 5 £65,400 +13.74%
Midlands -12 5 £65,400 +13.74%
East of England -14 5 £60,000 -4.00%
North of England +39 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1
Reference Data
UK

Reference Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (6.06%) Apache
1 4 (6.06%) Confluence
1 4 (6.06%) SAS
2 3 (4.55%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.06%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.52%) Markit EDM
1 1 (1.52%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.36%) Azure
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
2 9 (13.64%) GitHub
3 5 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.27%) Metadata
2 8 (12.12%) Ataccama
3 7 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (7.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
5 5 (7.58%) GIS
5 5 (7.58%) Power BI
6 4 (6.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 4 (6.06%) Spatial Data
6 4 (6.06%) Triplestore
7 3 (4.55%) Data Mining
7 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.55%) Tableau
8 2 (3.03%) Big Data
8 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.52%) MySQL
9 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.52%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Git
1 8 (12.12%) GitLab
2 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 39 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 19 (28.79%) Finance
3 18 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.58%) Banking
5 5 (7.58%) Local Government
6 4 (6.06%) Law
6 4 (6.06%) Marketing
6 4 (6.06%) Retail
7 3 (4.55%) Publishing
8 2 (3.03%) Aeronautics
8 2 (3.03%) Aviation
8 2 (3.03%) Front Office
8 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Back Office
9 1 (1.52%) Legal
9 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) Analyst
2 8 (12.12%) Architect
2 8 (12.12%) Data Engineer
3 7 (10.61%) Data Manager
4 6 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.09%) Data Governance Analyst
4 6 (9.09%) Data Governance Manager
4 6 (9.09%) Governance Manager
5 5 (7.58%) Data Modeller
5 5 (7.58%) Head of Business Intelligence
5 5 (7.58%) Head of Data Management
6 4 (6.06%) Administrator
6 4 (6.06%) Data Science Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) SAS Administrator
6 4 (6.06%) Senior
6 4 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) RESTful
2 2 (3.03%) Ajax
2 2 (3.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.52%) PostGIS
3 1 (1.52%) Shiny
3 1 (1.52%) XML
3 1 (1.52%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Product Ownership
2 9 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (12.12%) Management Information System
4 7 (10.61%) Data Structures
5 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
6 4 (6.06%) Linked Data
6 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.03%) Hedge funds
7 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.03%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.52%) Equities
8 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.52%) Life Science
8 1 (1.52%) OTC Derivatives
8 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Windows
3 2 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.52%) AIX
4 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Data Management
2 29 (43.94%) Data Modelling
3 25 (37.88%) Data Architecture
4 22 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 20 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (27.27%) Master Data Management
7 17 (25.76%) Data Analysis
8 16 (24.24%) Analytics
8 16 (24.24%) Metadata Management
9 15 (22.73%) Mentoring
10 14 (21.21%) Agile
10 14 (21.21%) Physical Data Model
11 13 (19.70%) Data Strategy
11 13 (19.70%) Reference Data Management
12 12 (18.18%) Decision-Making
12 12 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (18.18%) Roadmaps
13 11 (16.67%) DataOps
13 11 (16.67%) Information Management
14 10 (15.15%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) SQL
2 7 (10.61%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) SPARQL
4 2 (3.03%) C#
4 2 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) PHP
5 1 (1.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) SAS Certification
3 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) HNC
4 2 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (51.52%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
2 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) Databricks
3 3 (4.55%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.03%) Cisco
4 2 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (3.03%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.52%) ESRI
5 1 (1.52%) FactSet
5 1 (1.52%) HP
5 1 (1.52%) Murex
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle
5 1 (1.52%) SAP
5 1 (1.52%) Sparx
5 1 (1.52%) Sun
5 1 (1.52%) Sybase