Linked Data Contract Job Trends in England

Linked Data
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linked Data in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linked Data over the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 506 578
Rank change year-on-year -9 +72 +177
Contract jobs citing Linked Data 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% 0.006% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.010% 0.021% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile £625 £113 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £115 £450
Median % change year-on-year +465.22% -74.44% -
75th Percentile £675 £118 £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £115 £450
% change year-on-year +465.22% -74.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £17.50 -

All Generic Skills
England

Linked Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,444 9,734 13,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.29% 31.24% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,529 5,851 8,964
10th Percentile £290 £296 £293
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 304 460
10th Percentile £14.38 £17.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.42 £21.30
Median hourly rate £27.53 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.94% +12.36% +67.92%
75th Percentile £54.06 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.64 £42.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -37.32% -3.06% +64.38%

Linked Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Linked Data job vacancy trend in England

Linked Data
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Linked Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Linked Data

Linked Data
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Linked Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Linked Data

Linked Data
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 Linked Data within the England region over the 6 months to 28 October 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 - 1 £650 - 11
Linked Data
UK

Linked Data
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared