Ontologies Contracts in England

Ontology
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Ontologies skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ontologies over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 520 615
Rank change year-on-year +56 +95 +136
Contract jobs citing Ontologies 21 22 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.059% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.068% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 32
10th Percentile £378 £562 £314
25th Percentile £379 £688 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £577
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +25.69% -17.60%
75th Percentile £688 £763 £766
90th Percentile £730 £778 £1,011
UK median daily rate £436 £725 £597
% change year-on-year -39.86% +21.51% -14.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.75
25th Percentile - - £37.88
Median hourly rate - - £39.75
75th Percentile - - £41.63
90th Percentile - - £42.75
UK median hourly rate - - £39.75
% change year-on-year - - -56.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Ontologies 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Ontologies as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Ontologies in England

Ontologies
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ontologies in England

Ontologies
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ontologies in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ontologies in England

Ontologies
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Ontologies in England

Ontologies
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 Ontologies within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +31 7 £725 - 34
East of England +34 5 £408 - 6
North of England +18 4 £663 - 1
Midlands - 3 £650 -
North West +14 2 £688 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £650 -
West Midlands - 2 £650 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 2
Ontologies
UK

Ontologies
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) SAS
2 3 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MS Visio
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (9.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Collibra
1 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Metadata
2 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 3 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 3 (14.29%) QlikView
3 3 (14.29%) Tableau
4 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 2 (9.52%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (9.52%) Hadoop
4 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.52%) Text Mining
5 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.76%) DataStage
5 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.76%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) ERwin
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) ER Studio
General
1 9 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Electronics
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Data Modeller
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Quality Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Governance Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Information Scientist
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Associate Director
4 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Architect
4 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
4 1 (4.76%) SAS Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (9.52%) FpML
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Taxonomies
2 6 (28.57%) Reference Data
3 3 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (14.29%) Life Science
4 2 (9.52%) Data Fabric
4 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.76%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 10 (47.62%) Data Management
3 8 (38.10%) Data Governance
4 7 (33.33%) Analytics
4 7 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
5 6 (28.57%) Agile
5 6 (28.57%) Metadata Management
6 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
6 5 (23.81%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (23.81%) Logical Data Model
6 5 (23.81%) Migration
6 5 (23.81%) Visualisation
7 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
7 4 (19.05%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (14.29%) Data Strategy
8 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) Reference Data Management
8 3 (14.29%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) MATLAB
4 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) PhD
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) SAP
2 4 (19.05%) IBM
3 3 (14.29%) Ab Initio
3 3 (14.29%) Informatica
3 3 (14.29%) Sparx
4 1 (4.76%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Foundry
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Palantir
4 1 (4.76%) Talend