Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ERD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ERD over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 674 767
Rank change year-on-year +90 +93 -92
Contract jobs citing ERD 6 25 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.043% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.048% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 30
10th Percentile £400 - £500
25th Percentile £413 £406 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -14.29% +19.15%
75th Percentile £742 £775 £750
90th Percentile £744 £850 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +37.88% -21.43% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £72.50
25th Percentile - £71.42 £75.12
Median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -6.30% -
75th Percentile - £81.99 £86.23
90th Percentile - - £87.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
% change year-on-year - -6.30% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ERD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

ERD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ERD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ERD.

Daily rate trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERD over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ERD in the UK

ERD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ERD.

Hourly rate trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERD within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +85 4 £569 -5.21% 2
UK excluding London +47 4 £569 +37.88%
South East +13 4 £569 +37.88%
Work from Home +114 1 £450 -21.05% 1

ERD
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Neptune
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
2 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) kappa
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Sales Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Sales Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (33.33%) Blazor
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) WCF
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Data Munging
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Inmon Methodology
2 2 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce