Taxonomies Contracts

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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 530 605
Rank change year-on-year +25 +75 +129
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 43 55 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.42% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 48
10th Percentile £322 £263 £370
25th Percentile £463 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £488 £638
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -23.53% +10.87%
75th Percentile £547 £588 £753
90th Percentile £700 £600 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £440 £550
% change year-on-year +7.95% -20.00% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,019 13,114 18,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.60% 30.28% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,823 8,318 12,820
10th Percentile £300 £281 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 908 571
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £12.56
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.02 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% +41.26% -5.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -16.26% +32.69% +25.58%

Taxonomies
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Taxonomies in the UK

Taxonomies
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Taxonomies in the UK

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Taxonomies over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Taxonomies in the UK

Taxonomies
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Taxonomies.

Hourly rate trend for Taxonomies in the UK

Taxonomies
Top 12 Contract 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 6 July 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 +44 38 £495 +4.21% 188
London +40 29 £500 +14.29% 152
Work from Home +18 17 £496 +16.02% 67
UK excluding London +34 10 £475 +7.95% 52
North of England +3 5 £492 +40.57% 12
North West +7 4 £492 +40.57% 6
South East +37 2 £357 -6.05% 10
Wales - 2 £495 - 6
Midlands +8 1 £200 -63.64% 8
Scotland +4 1 - - 4
West Midlands +2 1 £200 -63.64% 5
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 4

Taxonomies
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 8 (18.60%) CMS
1 8 (18.60%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (2.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Azure
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (6.98%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.65%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.65%) Figma
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.65%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.33%) Google Docs
5 1 (2.33%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.33%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.33%) IaaS
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) Metadata
2 3 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.65%) Big Data
3 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
3 2 (4.65%) Power BI
3 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.65%) Tableau
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) OLTP
4 1 (2.33%) Redis
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) ERwin
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
1 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Legal
2 5 (11.63%) Marketing
3 4 (9.30%) Banking
3 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Retail Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Italian Language
5 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Publishing
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) Data Architect
3 5 (11.63%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Records Management Specialist
4 4 (9.30%) Business Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Information Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Retail Banking Business Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Risk Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Risk Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Designer
6 2 (4.65%) ForgeRock Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Knowledge Manager
6 2 (4.65%) SEO Manager
6 2 (4.65%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) OAuth
1 7 (16.28%) OAuth2
1 7 (16.28%) OpenID
2 6 (13.95%) JDBC
2 6 (13.95%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.33%) Kafka
3 1 (2.33%) React
3 1 (2.33%) REST
3 1 (2.33%) SPFx
3 1 (2.33%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) PKI
2 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.98%) Digital Media
3 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (4.65%) Life Science
4 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) Agile
1 14 (32.56%) Data Governance
2 11 (25.58%) Records Management
3 9 (20.93%) Scrum
3 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (16.28%) API Integration
4 7 (16.28%) Coaching
4 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (16.28%) Identity Management
4 7 (16.28%) Information Management
4 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
4 7 (16.28%) Migration
4 7 (16.28%) Open Source
4 7 (16.28%) Risk Management
5 6 (13.95%) DevSecOps
5 6 (13.95%) Information Governance
5 6 (13.95%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (13.95%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Java
2 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.98%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) SQL
4 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.33%) Scala
4 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) ISEB
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
1 4 (9.30%) GDPR
2 2 (4.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.33%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) ForgeRock
1 7 (16.28%) Ping Identity
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Informatica
4 2 (4.65%) Google
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Sparx
4 2 (4.65%) Talend
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.33%) Planview
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Workday