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 have cited Reference Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 693 735 938
Rank change year-on-year +42 +203 -144
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 212 240 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.55% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 60 109 115
10th Percentile £44,750 £54,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,660 £58,664 £60,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £69,447 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.80% -18.30% +13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £109,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,900 £69,447 £65,150
% change year-on-year -2.23% +6.60% +35.16%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £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 9 May 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 9 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
UK excluding London +30 166 £67,900 -2.23% 4
Scotland +54 138 £62,500 +25.00%
England -38 67 £86,000 +23.84% 24
London +63 39 £90,000 +12.50% 18
Work from Home -14 24 £67,700 -3.29% 7
South East -32 10 £82,500 -17.50% 1
South West -35 7 £50,662 -27.05% 1
West Midlands +9 5 £65,400 +13.74%
East of England +2 5 £60,000 -4.00%
Midlands -13 5 £65,400 +13.74%
North of England +41 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 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 11 (5.19%) CICS
2 5 (2.36%) Confluence
2 5 (2.36%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.36%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.89%) Apache
3 4 (1.89%) SAS
4 3 (1.42%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.04%) AWS
2 24 (11.32%) Azure
3 9 (4.25%) GitHub
4 5 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (2.36%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.89%) GCP
6 3 (1.42%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 65 (30.66%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (39.15%) Metadata
2 34 (16.04%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.55%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.60%) RDBMS
5 11 (5.19%) Ataccama
5 11 (5.19%) DB2
6 8 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.83%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.36%) GIS
8 5 (2.36%) Pentaho
8 5 (2.36%) Power BI
9 4 (1.89%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 4 (1.89%) Spatial Data
9 4 (1.89%) Tableau
9 4 (1.89%) Triplestore
10 3 (1.42%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (34.43%) Git
2 70 (33.02%) Bitbucket
3 65 (30.66%) Artifactory
3 65 (30.66%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.19%) ChangeMan
5 8 (3.77%) GitLab
6 7 (3.30%) JIRA
General
1 158 (74.53%) Finance
2 148 (69.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 141 (66.51%) Law
4 135 (63.68%) Marketing
5 50 (23.58%) Social Skills
6 26 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (8.02%) Legal
8 13 (6.13%) Banking
9 9 (4.25%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.36%) Local Government
12 4 (1.89%) Retail
13 3 (1.42%) Publishing
14 2 (0.94%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.94%) Aviation
14 2 (0.94%) Front Office
14 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.47%) Back Office
15 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 130 (61.32%) Software Engineer
2 67 (31.60%) Lead
3 65 (30.66%) Lead Software Engineer
4 48 (22.64%) Full Stack Engineer
4 48 (22.64%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 48 (22.64%) Java Engineer
4 48 (22.64%) Java Software Engineer
5 47 (22.17%) Senior
6 42 (19.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (10.85%) Analyst
8 11 (5.19%) Mainframe Software Engineer
9 10 (4.72%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.25%) Architect
10 9 (4.25%) Data Analyst
11 8 (3.77%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
12 7 (3.30%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.83%) Applications Support
13 6 (2.83%) Data Governance Manager
13 6 (2.83%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (39.15%) RESTful
2 79 (37.26%) Web Services
3 66 (31.13%) XML
4 65 (30.66%) JSON
4 65 (30.66%) JSON-LD
4 65 (30.66%) LDAP
4 65 (30.66%) OpenID
4 65 (30.66%) SAML
5 48 (22.64%) AngularJS
6 19 (8.96%) Kafka
7 14 (6.60%) Hibernate
7 14 (6.60%) React
7 14 (6.60%) SOAP
7 14 (6.60%) Spring
7 14 (6.60%) Spring Boot
7 14 (6.60%) Vue
8 2 (0.94%) Ajax
8 2 (0.94%) HTML
9 1 (0.47%) PostGIS
9 1 (0.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 73 (34.43%) Management Information System
2 65 (30.66%) Enterprise Cloud
3 16 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.60%) Algorithms
5 13 (6.13%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.66%) Onboarding
7 11 (5.19%) Mainframe
7 11 (5.19%) VSAM
8 9 (4.25%) Hedge funds
8 9 (4.25%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (3.77%) Derivative
9 8 (3.77%) Fixed Income
10 7 (3.30%) Credit Derivative
10 7 (3.30%) Data Structures
10 7 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (3.30%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 5 (2.36%) Taxonomies
12 4 (1.89%) Linked Data
12 4 (1.89%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.66%) Linux
2 6 (2.83%) Unix
3 5 (2.36%) Windows
4 2 (0.94%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.94%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.47%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (64.62%) Software Engineering
2 127 (59.91%) Agile
3 125 (58.96%) SDLC
4 124 (58.49%) Operational Stability
5 97 (45.75%) Data Modelling
6 77 (36.32%) Data Transformation
6 77 (36.32%) Roadmaps
7 76 (35.85%) CI/CD
8 69 (32.55%) RDF
8 69 (32.55%) Use Case
9 67 (31.60%) Continuous Delivery
9 67 (31.60%) Ontologies
9 67 (31.60%) Test Automation
10 65 (30.66%) Architectural Design
10 65 (30.66%) Community of Practice
10 65 (30.66%) Data Pipeline
10 65 (30.66%) Identity Access Management
10 65 (30.66%) Information Architecture
11 51 (24.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 50 (23.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (34.91%) SQL
2 69 (32.55%) SPARQL
3 66 (31.13%) Java
4 65 (30.66%) Go
4 65 (30.66%) Prolog
5 46 (21.70%) Python
6 11 (5.19%) COBOL
6 11 (5.19%) JCL
7 5 (2.36%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.94%) C#
8 2 (0.94%) PHP
9 1 (0.47%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (5.66%) Degree
2 4 (1.89%) SAS Certification
3 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.94%) HNC
4 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (19.34%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.47%) GxP
3 1 (0.47%) QA
3 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (30.66%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.49%) Docker
3 11 (5.19%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (8.49%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.36%) Grafana
2 5 (2.36%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.47%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 72 (33.96%) Oracle
2 13 (6.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.83%) Sybase
4 5 (2.36%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.36%) CA
4 5 (2.36%) Databricks
4 5 (2.36%) Splunk
5 3 (1.42%) Alteryx
5 3 (1.42%) Talend
6 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.94%) Cisco
6 2 (0.94%) Google
6 2 (0.94%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.47%) ESRI
7 1 (0.47%) FactSet
7 1 (0.47%) HP
7 1 (0.47%) Murex
7 1 (0.47%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Sparx
7 1 (0.47%) Sun