Ontologies Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Ontology
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Ontologies skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 111 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Contract jobs citing Ontologies 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.025% 0.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £725
% change year-on-year -11.54% -10.34% +16.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,361 1,657 2,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.63% 87.95% 82.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,134 1,120 1,503
10th Percentile £300 £200 £232
25th Percentile £400 £358 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.65%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £651 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 75 180
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.12
25th Percentile £16.33 £14.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.13 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% -4.58% +7.34%
75th Percentile £27.81 £26.42 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £34.50 £55.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Ontologies job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Ontologies
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ontologies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Ontologies

Ontologies
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ontologies within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 April 2026. 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
East Midlands - 1 £525 -
Ontologies
England

Ontologies
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP