ERD Contract Job Trends in England

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England 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 540 504 561
Rank change year-on-year -36 +57 +157
Contract jobs citing ERD 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.008% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £555 - £653
25th Percentile £581 £613 £656
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £706 £638 £706
90th Percentile £725 - £718
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,450 26,620 34,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.50% 87.73% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,481 16,323 23,332
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,780 955 1,444
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.24 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%

ERD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ERD job vacancy trend in England

ERD
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ERD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ERD

ERD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERD in England over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ERD in England

ERD
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ERD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ERD

ERD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERD within the England region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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
London +10 1 £725 - 2
North West - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £575 -
North of England - 1 - - 2
ERD
UK

ERD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (33.33%) SAP IBP
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ER Studio
1 1 (33.33%) ERwin
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modeller
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BW Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JSON Schema
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Raspberry Pi
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Physical Data Model
1 2 (66.67%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Responsibility
2 1 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (33.33%) DAMA
2 1 (33.33%) DAMA DMBOK
2 1 (33.33%) Data Design
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx