Ontologies Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ontology
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ontologies skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ontologies over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 387 428
Rank change year-on-year +35 +41 +95
Contract jobs citing Ontologies 7 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.024% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.029% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile - - £313
25th Percentile £379 - £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 - £350
75th Percentile £436 - £403
90th Percentile - - £438
UK median daily rate £419 £725 £577
% change year-on-year -42.24% +25.69% -17.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,230 17,130 20,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.27% 82.85% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,001 10,158 14,055
10th Percentile £238 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,213 2,062 1,263
10th Percentile £13.92 £12.55 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £17.18
Median hourly rate £24.34 £38.12 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% -3.74% +84.19%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.64
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ontologies as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ontologies in the UK excluding London

Ontologies
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ontologies in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ontologies in the UK excluding London

Ontologies
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ontologies in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ontologies in the UK excluding London

Ontologies
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 Ontologies within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
East of England - 4 £408 - 5
Midlands - 2 - -
South East - 1 - - 12
East Midlands - 1 - -
Ontologies
UK

Ontologies
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Serverless
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) Text Mining
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) DataStage
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ER Studio
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Information Scientist
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
2 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Data Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Benchmarking
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) Health Informatics
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Visual Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) PhD
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Talend