ERD Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring ERD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing ERD 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.056% 0.047% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £725 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

ERD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,646 1,948 2,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.32% 91.50% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,199 1,690
10th Percentile £339 £370 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 13
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +54.00% -51.92%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £69.60
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -50.00%

ERD
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ERD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

ERD job vacancy trend in the City of London

ERD
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ERD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ERD

ERD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sparx