Ontologies Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Ontology
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Ontologies skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ontologies 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £393 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £598 - -
North West median daily rate £575 £688 -
% change year-on-year -16.36% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,129 953 1,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.20% 90.76% 86.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 600 996
10th Percentile £304 £294 £306
25th Percentile £375 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -8.59% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £676 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 31 68
10th Percentile £17.13 £15.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £24.73
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +31.45% -41.64%
75th Percentile £61.25 £33.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.88
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £30.95 £30.00
% change year-on-year +37.92% +3.17% -20.00%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Ontologies job vacancy trend in Manchester

Ontologies
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ontologies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Ontologies

Ontologies
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ontologies in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ontologies in Manchester

Ontologies
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Neo4j
2 1 (33.33%) ArangoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Stardog
2 1 (33.33%) TigerGraph
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Ontologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) NetworkX
1 1 (33.33%) NLTK
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) SpaCy
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (33.33%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) RDF
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Graph Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Understanding
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SPARQL
2 1 (33.33%) SHACL