Taxonomies Contracts in the UK excluding London

Taxonomy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Taxonomies over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 362 432
Rank change year-on-year +32 +70 +44
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 8 28 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.14% 0.059%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.46% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 10
10th Percentile £331 £296 £423
25th Percentile £441 £344 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £479 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -7.98% +1.46%
75th Percentile £590 £586 £613
90th Percentile £693 £600 £660
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £650
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Taxonomies falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,245 6,043 7,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.15% 29.28% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 3,635 5,237
10th Percentile £209 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £615
90th Percentile £664 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 724 436
10th Percentile £16.77 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.97 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.22% +28.41% +4.76%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.14 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.83% +34.04% -18.24%

Taxonomies
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Taxonomies in the UK excluding London

Taxonomies
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Taxonomies in the UK excluding London

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Taxonomies in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Taxonomies in the UK excluding London

Taxonomies
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Taxonomies in the UK excluding London

Taxonomies
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 Taxonomies within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 of England +15 6 £492 +32.97% 10
North West +14 5 £492 +40.57% 5
South East +28 1 - - 14
Midlands +13 1 £200 -64.29% 9
West Midlands +9 1 £200 -64.29% 4
East of England - 1 £675 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 4
Taxonomies
UK

Taxonomies
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 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Figma
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) DataStage
General
1 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Associate Director
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JDBC
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth2
1 3 (37.50%) OpenID
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) API Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Coaching
2 3 (37.50%) Data Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
2 3 (37.50%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Ontologies
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ForgeRock
1 3 (37.50%) Ping Identity
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Ariba
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Talend