Ontologies Contract Job Trends in the South East

Ontology
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Ontologies skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 - 204
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing Ontologies 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% - 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% - 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £435
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.09%
75th Percentile £438 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -13.21% +20.45% -21.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,760 3,244 4,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.11% 88.32% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 2,019 2,869
10th Percentile £222 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.62% +1.15%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 122 223
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.43 £18.59
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.99 £26.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £46.12 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% -16.14% +46.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.76 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ontologies job vacancy trend in the South East

Ontologies
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ontologies

Ontologies
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ontologies within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Berkshire - 1 - - 8
Surrey - 1 £425 - 3
Thames Valley - 1 - - 12
Ontologies
England

Ontologies
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) EU AI Act
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2