Semantic Layer Contracts

Semantic Layer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Semantic Layer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Semantic Layer over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 578 689
Rank change year-on-year +62 +111 +135
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 7 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.002% 0.021%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.13% 0.014% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £375 - £495
25th Percentile £471 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £618 - £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Semantic Layer 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 5,587 7,303 10,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 17.14% 17.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,831 5,236 7,235
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -3.67% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 148 178
10th Percentile £20.47 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.69 £20.98 £32.30
Median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -31.73% +27.37%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.53 £73.41
90th Percentile £76.63 £73.25 £79.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -20.90% -28.19% +59.14%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in the UK

Semantic Layer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +60 6 £575 - 11
UK excluding London +48 4 £460 - 5
South East - 3 £460 - 5
London - 2 £550 - 9
Midlands - 1 £320 -
West Midlands - 1 £320 -
Scotland - 1 - -
Work from Home - 1 - - 3

Semantic Layer
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Delta Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) User Stories
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft