SHACL Contract Job Trends

Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SHACL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SHACL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

SHACL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,768 10,523 13,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.58% 33.43% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,801 6,657 9,220
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.42% -4.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.37% -2.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 245 492
10th Percentile £39.72 £21.25 £35.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £69.62
90th Percentile £76.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

SHACL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SHACL job vacancy trend in the UK

SHACL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SHACL
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 SHACL within the UK over the 6 months to 29 January 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
London - 1 £750 -
England - 1 £750 - 1

SHACL
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
General
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Data Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IDERA