RDF Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring RDF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 78 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing RDF 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.37% 0.39% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £563 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% - -
75th Percentile £650 £469 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £600 £463 -
% change year-on-year +29.73% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

RDF 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 1,195 929 1,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.13% 91.08% 86.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 596 956
10th Percentile £305 £294 £313
25th Percentile £381 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £678 £666
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 32 72
10th Percentile £17.21 £15.92 £12.50
25th Percentile £23.54 £20.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £46.25 £32.50 £25.10
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% +29.51% -36.47%
75th Percentile £64.69 £34.56 £51.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £42.69 £31.52 £28.30
% change year-on-year +35.42% +11.38% -24.53%

RDF
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

RDF job vacancy trend in Manchester

RDF
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing RDF

RDF
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RDF in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for RDF in Manchester

RDF
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 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Collibra
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Semaphore
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (20.00%) ArangoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) Stardog
2 1 (20.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (20.00%) RStudio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Ontologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (20.00%) NetworkX
1 1 (20.00%) NLTK
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (40.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (20.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Ontologies
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Biomedicine
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) DataOps
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Understanding
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SHACL
1 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IDERA