Knowledge Representation Contract Job Trends

Knowledge Representation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Knowledge Representation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	688	566	-
Rank change year-on-year	-122	-	-
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Representation	3	2	0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.005%	0.006%	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.006%	0.007%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	3	0	0
10^th Percentile	£470	-	-
25^th Percentile	£491	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	-	-
75^th Percentile	£575	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
UK excluding London median daily rate	£463	-	-

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Knowledge Representation 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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	46,912	30,155	32,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	84.87%	90.56%	86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	28,167	18,750	19,390
10^th Percentile	£325	£300	£309
25^th Percentile	£425	£404	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-2.42%
75^th Percentile	£638	£625	£638
90^th Percentile	£736	£725	£750
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	3,500	1,913	1,230
10^th Percentile	£13.51	£14.38	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£16.75	£17.30	£20.12
Median hourly rate	£37.24	£25.08	£40.00
Median % change year-on-year	+48.51%	-37.31%	-10.11%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£42.75	£65.00
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£65.25	£73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£37.24	£22.27	£40.33
% change year-on-year	+67.26%	-44.79%	-8.14%

Knowledge Representation Job Vacancy Trend

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

Knowledge Representation Daily Rate Trend

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

Knowledge Representation 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 Knowledge Representation within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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	-	2	£506	-	14
Work from Home	-	1	£575	-	7
UK excluding London	-	1	£463	-	6
North of England	-	1	£463	-	4
London	-	1	£550	-	7
Yorkshire	-	1	£463	-	3

Knowledge Representation Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Knowledge Representation also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Knowledge Representation.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Ontologies	100.0%	3
2	AI	66.7%	2
2	Analytics	66.7%	2
2	Azure	66.7%	2
2	Data Engineering	66.7%	2
2	Data Governance	66.7%	2
2	Data Modelling	66.7%	2
2	Data Science	66.7%	2
2	Generative AI	66.7%	2
2	Information Management	66.7%	2
2	LLM	66.7%	2
2	Machine Learning	66.7%	2
2	Metadata	66.7%	2
2	Neo4j	66.7%	2
2	RDF	66.7%	2
2	Stakeholder Management	66.7%	2
17	Agile	33.3%	1
17	Amazon Neptune	33.3%	1
17	Anomaly Detection	33.3%	1
17	Apache Spark	33.3%	1
17	ArangoDB	33.3%	1
17	AWS	33.3%	1
17	Azure AI	33.3%	1
17	Azure Cosmos DB	33.3%	1
17	Case Management	33.3%	1
17	CI/CD	33.3%	1
17	Cloud Security	33.3%	1
17	Computer Science	33.3%	1
17	Computer Science Degree	33.3%	1
17	Customer Insight	33.3%	1

Knowledge Representation Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Ontologies	100.0%	3
2	AI	66.7%	2
2	Analytics	66.7%	2
2	Data Engineering	66.7%	2
2	Data Governance	66.7%	2
2	Data Modelling	66.7%	2
2	Data Science	66.7%	2
2	Generative AI	66.7%	2
2	Information Management	66.7%	2
2	LLM	66.7%	2
2	Machine Learning	66.7%	2
2	RDF	66.7%	2
2	Stakeholder Management	66.7%	2
14	Agile	33.3%	1
14	Anomaly Detection	33.3%	1
14	Case Management	33.3%	1
14	CI/CD	33.3%	1
14	Cloud Security	33.3%	1
14	Computer Science	33.3%	1
14	Customer Insight	33.3%	1