ERD Contracts

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ERD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ERD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 576 695
Rank change year-on-year +58 +119 +82
Contract jobs citing ERD 2 6 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.014% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.016% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 19
10th Percentile £467 £400 -
25th Percentile £483 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £588 £570
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +3.07% -18.57%
75th Percentile £558 £742 £794
90th Percentile £576 £744 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £569 £413
% change year-on-year -18.68% +37.88% -21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.42
Median hourly rate - - £76.71
75th Percentile - - £81.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.71
% change year-on-year - - -6.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

ERD
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ERD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ERD.

Daily rate trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ERD.

Hourly rate trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +55 2 £519 -8.79% 5
UK excluding London +60 1 £463 -18.68% 2
Work from Home +41 1 £463 +2.78% 2
North of England - 1 £463 -
London - 1 £575 - 5
North East - 1 £463 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) IBM