Taxonomies Contract Job Trends

Taxonomy
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Taxonomies over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	477	514	525
Rank change year-on-year	+37	+11	+46
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies	214	52	49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.39%	0.16%	0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	1.11%	0.43%	0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	132	35	28
10^th Percentile	£405	£315	£318
25^th Percentile	£500	£458	£491
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£530	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+6.00%	-4.76%	+13.51%
75^th Percentile	£626	£650	£670
90^th Percentile	£725	£720	£700
UK excluding London median daily rate	£484	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+1.89%	-5.00%	+14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	3	0
10^th Percentile	-	£31.85	-
25^th Percentile	£44.75	£35.75	-
Median hourly rate	£54.50	£44.50	-
Median % change year-on-year	+22.47%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£64.25	£47.13	-
90^th Percentile	-	£47.35	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£54.50	-	-

All Generic Skills
UK

Taxonomies falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	19,255	12,035	11,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	35.03%	36.15%	30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	11,505	7,377	6,845
10^th Percentile	£319	£290	£280
25^th Percentile	£423	£408	£410
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£515	£531
Median % change year-on-year	+1.94%	-2.92%	-3.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£669
90^th Percentile	£745	£750	£800
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£493
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-3.65%	-1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,399	646	394
10^th Percentile	£13.81	£14.16	£17.08
25^th Percentile	£17.48	£18.25	£23.62
Median hourly rate	£35.82	£27.00	£47.50
Median % change year-on-year	+32.67%	-43.16%	+5.56%
75^th Percentile	£67.50	£51.19	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£85.00	£72.00	£75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.99	£25.15	£52.50
% change year-on-year	+35.15%	-52.10%	+5.00%

Taxonomies Job Vacancy Trend

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

Taxonomies Daily Rate Trend

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

Taxonomies Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Taxonomies over the 6 months to 18 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Taxonomies in the UK

Taxonomies Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Taxonomies.

Taxonomies Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Taxonomies within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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	-6	156	£550	+7.32%	130
London	-13	114	£591	+11.29%	91
Work from Home	-41	53	£550	-1.52%	51
UK excluding London	-61	53	£484	+1.89%	40
North of England	-41	19	£525	+6.06%	11
Scotland	-13	15	£484	-	3
Midlands	-33	13	£435	-27.50%	5
West Midlands	-41	12	£410	-31.67%	3
North West	-39	10	£525	+6.06%	8
Yorkshire	-	7	£463	-	2
East of England	-24	2	£690	-	7
South West	-40	2	£500	-33.33%	3
South East	-61	2	£550	+43.42%	8
North East	-	2	£660	-	1
East Midlands	-	1	£590	-	2

Taxonomies Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Taxonomies 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 Taxonomies.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AI	48.1%	103
2	Metadata	41.6%	89
3	Data Modelling	40.7%	87
4	Stakeholder Management	32.2%	69
5	Ontologies	27.6%	59
6	Data Governance	27.1%	58
7	Data Quality	26.2%	56
8	Azure	24.3%	52
9	Analytics	23.4%	50
10	Conceptual Models	19.6%	42
11	Logical Data Model	17.8%	38
12	Roadmaps	17.3%	37
13	Data Architecture	16.8%	36
14	Agile	16.4%	35
15	Metadata Management	15.9%	34
15	Workshop Facilitation	15.9%	34
17	CI/CD	15.4%	33
17	SQL	15.4%	33
19	Accessibility	15.0%	32
19	Microsoft	15.0%	32
19	Stakeholder Engagement	15.0%	32
22	Migration	14.5%	31
23	Data Lineage	14.0%	30
24	Knowledge Discovery	13.6%	29
24	Validation	13.6%	29
26	Decision-Making	13.1%	28
26	Python	13.1%	28
28	Git	12.1%	26
28	Information Architecture	12.1%	26
28	JSON	12.1%	26

Taxonomies 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.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Legacy Systems	13.1%	28
2	Management Information System	9.3%	20
3	Data Structures	8.4%	18
4	Onboarding	7.5%	16
5	AI Agents	5.6%	12
6	Virtual Team	3.3%	7
7	CMDB	2.8%	6
7	Product Ownership	2.8%	6
9	Life Science	2.3%	5
10	Linked Data	1.9%	4
11	Semantic Web	1.4%	3
12	Algorithms	0.9%	2
12	Clustering	0.9%	2
12	Educational Technology	0.9%	2
12	Genomics	0.9%	2
12	Reference Data	0.9%	2
12	STIX	0.9%	2
12	TAXII	0.9%	2
19	Data Fabric	0.5%	1
19	Data Protection Act	0.5%	1