IDEF1X Contract Job Trends

IDEF1X
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring IDEF1X skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IDEF1X 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.015% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £345 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £355 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

IDEF1X falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,595 5,690 7,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 18.64% 16.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,544 3,814 5,150
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 93 169
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.98
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.09 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.63 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.78 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.33% -25.00% -28.48%

IDEF1X
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IDEF1X relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IDEF1X job vacancy trend in the UK

IDEF1X
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IDEF1X.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IDEF1X

IDEF1X
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 IDEF1X within the UK over the 6 months to 23 February 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 - 1 £350 -
Work from Home - 1 £350 -

IDEF1X
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%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Domain Models
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared