ER Studio Contract Job Trends

IDERA ER/Studio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ER Studio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 660 526 544
Rank change year-on-year -134 +18 +68
Contract jobs citing ER Studio 28 30 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.090% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.43% 0.59% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 7
10th Percentile £407 £451 £388
25th Percentile £432 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -7.63%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £688
90th Percentile £691 £813 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £463 £675
% change year-on-year +24.32% -31.48% +20.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,508 5,108 4,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 15.40% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,171 3,468 3,117
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £720
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

ER Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ER Studio job vacancy trend in the UK

ER Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ER Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ER Studio over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ER Studio in the UK

ER Studio
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 October 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
England -122 24 £450 -28.14% 11
London -102 22 £500 -20.06% 5
Work from Home -63 9 £550 -31.78% 9
UK excluding London -106 5 £575 +24.32% 7
Scotland -24 4 £575 +24.32%
South East -62 1 £400 - 3

ER Studio
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (21.43%) Azure Databricks
2 6 (21.43%) GCP
3 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (7.14%) Matillion
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (75.00%) Metadata
2 9 (32.14%) Data Vault
3 7 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 7 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (17.86%) Delta Lake
5 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 4 (14.29%) Power BI
5 4 (14.29%) RDBMS
6 2 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (7.14%) GIS
6 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.57%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (85.71%) ERwin
2 6 (21.43%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 18 (64.29%) Finance
2 17 (60.71%) Banking
3 15 (53.57%) Investment Banking
4 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
5 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (67.86%) Data Modeller
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Data Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Data Designer
3 3 (10.71%) Designer
4 2 (7.14%) Finance Modeller
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) Snowpark
2 2 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Reference Data
2 9 (32.14%) Data Structures
3 6 (21.43%) Product Ownership
4 5 (17.86%) Derivative
4 5 (17.86%) Equities
4 5 (17.86%) Fixed Income
4 5 (17.86%) Pricing Data
5 4 (14.29%) Replication
6 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 23 (82.14%) Data Governance
3 18 (64.29%) Logical Data Model
4 17 (60.71%) Physical Data Model
5 12 (42.86%) Data Architecture
6 11 (39.29%) Conceptual Models
7 10 (35.71%) Metadata Management
8 9 (32.14%) Data Management
9 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 7 (25.00%) Data Design
10 7 (25.00%) Data Lineage
10 7 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (21.43%) Analytical Modelling
11 6 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (21.43%) Domain Models
11 6 (21.43%) Lakehouse
11 6 (21.43%) Reference Data Management
11 6 (21.43%) Use Case
11 6 (21.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.29%) MiFID
3 3 (10.71%) GDPR
4 2 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Databricks
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Sparx
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) Alteryx
4 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) Talend
5 1 (3.57%) Teradata