Semantic Layer Contracts

Semantic Layer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Semantic Layer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Semantic Layer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 708 818
Rank change year-on-year +115 +110 -151
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 5 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.018% 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.069% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile - £488 £428
25th Percentile £506 £525 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £522 £600 £600
90th Percentile £527 £619 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -14.58% +23.08% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Semantic Layer is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +123 5 £513 -10.87% 5
UK excluding London +64 4 £513 -14.58% 2
Midlands +24 3 £513 +13.89%
East Midlands +19 3 £513 +13.89%
Work from Home +129 1 £513 -4.65% 4
South West +22 1 - - 1

Semantic Layer
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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (80.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Informatica
1 4 (80.00%) Talend
2 1 (20.00%) JDA
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft