ER Studio Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IDERA ER/Studio
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ER Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 359 414
Rank change year-on-year -18 +55 +81
Contract jobs citing ER Studio 6 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.024% 0.034%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.23% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile £450 £663 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -31.48% +12.50% +3.45%
75th Percentile £475 £690 -
90th Percentile - £692 £653
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £700
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +21.21%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

ER Studio falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,556 2,089 2,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.18% 12.56% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,762 1,241 1,732
10th Percentile £313 £337 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -4.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £633 £653 £672
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £544
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.32% -2.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 124 199
10th Percentile £16.84 £41.63 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.31 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

ER Studio
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ER Studio relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ER Studio job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ER Studio
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ER Studio.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ER Studio

ER Studio
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ER Studio within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Scotland - 5 £463 - 2
South East +4 1 - - 1
ER Studio
UK

ER Studio
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (50.00%) Metadata
3 3 (50.00%) Star Schema
4 2 (33.33%) Looker
4 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modeller
2 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Data Modeller
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Architect
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 6 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (16.67%) Conceptual Models
6 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce