ERD Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ERD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 - 409
Rank change year-on-year - - +91
Contract jobs citing ERD 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -16.00% -3.85% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ERD 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,404 13,603 17,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.94% 85.55% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,397 7,819 11,583
10th Percentile £215 £243 £250
25th Percentile £369 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,732 872 1,262
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.54 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% -25.84% +37.15%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%

ERD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ERD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ERD
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ERD
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ERD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ERD

ERD
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 ERD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £575 -
North of England - 1 - - 2
ERD
UK

ERD
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP IBP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SAP BW
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SAP BW Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP