Entity Linking Contract Job Trends

Entity Linking
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Entity Linking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 522 -
Rank change year-on-year -70 - -
Contract jobs citing Entity Linking 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.010% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.011% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £570 -
25th Percentile £550 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 -
75th Percentile £650 £609 -
90th Percentile - £615 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Entity Linking 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,264 27,700 38,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.09% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,060 16,780 25,534
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 875 1,974
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.72% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.43 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.80% -18.85% +44.23%

Entity Linking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entity Linking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Entity Linking job vacancy trend in the UK

Entity Linking
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Entity Linking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Entity Linking

Entity Linking
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Entity Linking within the UK over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
London -23 1 £600 -
England -68 1 £600 -

Entity Linking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 1 (100.00%) TigerGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Weaviate
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Faiss
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python