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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 713 713 962
Rank change year-on-year 0 +249 -156
Permanent jobs citing Reference Data 211 234 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.58% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 108 146
10th Percentile £50,900 £56,000 £51,875
25th Percentile £61,580 £58,664 £61,453
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -12.82% +7.06%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £124,500 £107,875 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,400 £69,447 £65,299
% change year-on-year -5.83% +6.35% +35.48%

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 36,675 40,106 83,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 43.08% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,359 22,226 34,621
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,570 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 June 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 June 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 -58 159 £65,400 -5.83% 7
Scotland +47 129 £62,500 - 1
England -95 73 £85,500 +22.14% 14
London +46 43 £90,000 +12.50% 11
Work from Home -27 28 £65,400 -5.83% 10
South East -40 10 £82,500 -17.50%
West Midlands -11 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
Midlands -32 7 £65,400 +13.74% 1
South West -52 7 £50,662 -27.05% 1
East of England -29 5 £60,000 -4.00% 1
North of England +9 1 - - 2
North West -10 1 - - 2

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 (5.21%) CICS
2 5 (2.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.37%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.37%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.90%) Apache
3 4 (1.90%) SAS
4 3 (1.42%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.47%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (15.64%) AWS
2 24 (11.37%) Azure
3 9 (4.27%) GitHub
4 7 (3.32%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (2.37%) Collibra
7 4 (1.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (30.81%) Kerberos
2 2 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (39.81%) Metadata
2 28 (13.27%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.16%) Ataccama
3 13 (6.16%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.21%) DB2
4 11 (5.21%) RDBMS
5 10 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.32%) Power BI
7 6 (2.84%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.37%) GIS
8 5 (2.37%) Pentaho
9 4 (1.90%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 4 (1.90%) Spatial Data
9 4 (1.90%) Tableau
9 4 (1.90%) Triplestore
10 3 (1.42%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (34.60%) Git
2 70 (33.18%) Bitbucket
3 65 (30.81%) Artifactory
3 65 (30.81%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.21%) ChangeMan
5 8 (3.79%) GitLab
6 7 (3.32%) JIRA
General
1 149 (70.62%) Finance
2 139 (65.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 133 (63.03%) Law
4 126 (59.72%) Marketing
5 54 (25.59%) Social Skills
6 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (9.00%) Legal
8 14 (6.64%) Banking
9 10 (4.74%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.37%) Local Government
12 4 (1.90%) Retail
13 3 (1.42%) Publishing
14 2 (0.95%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.95%) Aviation
14 2 (0.95%) Back Office
14 2 (0.95%) Front Office
14 2 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 121 (57.35%) Software Engineer
2 67 (31.75%) Lead
3 65 (30.81%) Lead Software Engineer
4 47 (22.27%) Senior
5 42 (19.91%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (18.48%) Full Stack Engineer
6 39 (18.48%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 39 (18.48%) Java Engineer
6 39 (18.48%) Java Software Engineer
7 24 (11.37%) Analyst
8 11 (5.21%) Mainframe Software Engineer
9 10 (4.74%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.74%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.27%) Architect
10 9 (4.27%) Data Manager
11 8 (3.79%) Data Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Data Governance Analyst
11 8 (3.79%) Data Governance Manager
11 8 (3.79%) Governance Manager
11 8 (3.79%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (37.91%) RESTful
2 76 (36.02%) Web Services
3 67 (31.75%) XML
4 65 (30.81%) JSON
4 65 (30.81%) JSON-LD
4 65 (30.81%) LDAP
4 65 (30.81%) OpenID
4 65 (30.81%) SAML
5 39 (18.48%) AngularJS
6 16 (7.58%) Kafka
7 11 (5.21%) Hibernate
7 11 (5.21%) React
7 11 (5.21%) SOAP
7 11 (5.21%) Spring
7 11 (5.21%) Spring Boot
7 11 (5.21%) Vue
8 2 (0.95%) Ajax
8 2 (0.95%) HTML
8 2 (0.95%) XSLT
9 1 (0.47%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 75 (35.55%) Management Information System
2 65 (30.81%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (6.64%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.16%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.16%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.21%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.21%) Mainframe
5 11 (5.21%) VSAM
6 9 (4.27%) Hedge funds
6 9 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.79%) Derivative
7 8 (3.79%) Fixed Income
8 7 (3.32%) Credit Derivative
8 7 (3.32%) Data Structures
8 7 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (3.32%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 7 (3.32%) Taxonomies
9 4 (1.90%) Linked Data
9 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.16%) Linux
2 7 (3.32%) Unix
3 6 (2.84%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) AIX
4 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.95%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (60.66%) Software Engineering
2 118 (55.92%) Agile
3 116 (54.98%) SDLC
4 115 (54.50%) Operational Stability
5 101 (47.87%) Data Modelling
6 77 (36.49%) Data Transformation
6 77 (36.49%) Roadmaps
7 76 (36.02%) CI/CD
8 69 (32.70%) RDF
8 69 (32.70%) Use Case
9 67 (31.75%) Continuous Delivery
9 67 (31.75%) Ontologies
9 67 (31.75%) Test Automation
10 65 (30.81%) Architectural Design
10 65 (30.81%) Community of Practice
10 65 (30.81%) Data Pipeline
10 65 (30.81%) Identity Access Management
10 65 (30.81%) Information Architecture
11 47 (22.27%) Data Management
12 46 (21.80%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 69 (32.70%) SPARQL
1 69 (32.70%) SQL
2 65 (30.81%) Go
2 65 (30.81%) Prolog
3 58 (27.49%) Java
4 40 (18.96%) Python
5 11 (5.21%) COBOL
5 11 (5.21%) JCL
6 5 (2.37%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.95%) Bash
7 2 (0.95%) C#
7 2 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (5.69%) Degree
2 4 (1.90%) SAS Certification
3 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.95%) HNC
4 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (22.27%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.42%) SLA
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) GxP
4 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 65 (30.81%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.11%) Docker
3 11 (5.21%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.37%) Grafana
2 5 (2.37%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.47%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 64 (30.33%) Oracle
2 13 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.32%) Sybase
4 5 (2.37%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.37%) CA
4 5 (2.37%) Databricks
4 5 (2.37%) Splunk
4 5 (2.37%) Talend
5 3 (1.42%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.95%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.95%) Cisco
6 2 (0.95%) Google
6 2 (0.95%) HP
6 2 (0.95%) Murex
6 2 (0.95%) Refinitiv
6 2 (0.95%) Sun
7 1 (0.47%) ESRI
7 1 (0.47%) FactSet
7 1 (0.47%) SAP
7 1 (0.47%) Sparx