Ontologies Contract Job Trends in the North West

Ontology
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 148 121 141
Rank change year-on-year -27 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Ontologies 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.15% 0.094% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.11% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £414 £666 -
25th Percentile £509 £672 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% - -
75th Percentile £591 £697 -
90th Percentile £596 £699 -
England median daily rate £575 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -13.21% +20.45% -15.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 1,878 2,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.85% 88.42% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 1,110 1,672
10th Percentile £213 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £568 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £682
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 98 213
10th Percentile £16.21 £16.04 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £21.62 £15.68
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.95 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% +3.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £52.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.58 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Ontologies job vacancy trend in the North West

Ontologies
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Ontologies

Ontologies
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Ontologies in the North West

Ontologies
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ontologies within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Manchester - 3 £575 - 1
Ontologies
England

Ontologies
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (25.00%) ArangoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Stardog
2 1 (25.00%) TigerGraph
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Ontologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (25.00%) NetworkX
1 1 (25.00%) NLTK
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (25.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (25.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) RDF
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Graph Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Logistics
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Understanding
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SPARQL
2 1 (25.00%) SHACL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality