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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 535 636
Rank change year-on-year +56 +101 +71
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 40 65 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.49% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 49 43
10th Percentile £400 £263 £426
25th Percentile £457 £325 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -26.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £763
90th Percentile £700 £681 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £575
% change year-on-year +2.82% -16.78% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

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 30 April 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 11 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 30 April 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 +45 38 £500 +4.17% 60
London +32 27 £500 -11.11% 40
Work from Home +31 15 £475 -0.42% 28
UK excluding London +34 8 £492 +2.82% 24
North of England +26 6 £492 +32.97% 4
North West +9 5 £492 +40.57% 2
South East +39 1 - - 5
Midlands +15 1 £200 -64.29% 5
West Midlands +7 1 £200 -64.29% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 2
East of England - 1 £675 - 3

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 7 (17.50%) CMS
2 5 (12.50%) Confluence
3 3 (7.50%) EPiServer
3 3 (7.50%) SAS
4 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.00%) Collibra
2 4 (10.00%) Figma
3 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
3 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.50%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) IaaS
4 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Metadata
2 5 (12.50%) Power BI
2 5 (12.50%) Tableau
3 3 (7.50%) Data Mining
3 3 (7.50%) QlikView
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.50%) DataStage
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) OLAP
5 1 (2.50%) OLTP
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) ERwin
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
1 7 (17.50%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Banking
2 4 (10.00%) Marketing
2 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.00%) Publishing
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Legal
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Data Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Designer
3 5 (12.50%) Content Designer
3 5 (12.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) User Experience Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Content Strategist
6 2 (5.00%) Data Quality Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) ForgeRock Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Records Management Specialist
6 2 (5.00%) SEO Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Technical Writer
7 1 (2.50%) SharePoint Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) OAuth
1 9 (22.50%) OAuth2
2 7 (17.50%) OpenID
3 6 (15.00%) JDBC
3 6 (15.00%) SOAP
4 2 (5.00%) HTML
4 2 (5.00%) JSON
4 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.00%) RESTful
4 2 (5.00%) Swagger
4 2 (5.00%) XML
5 1 (2.50%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) PKI
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Digital Media
3 3 (7.50%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (7.50%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Life Science
4 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Agile
2 11 (27.50%) Data Governance
3 9 (22.50%) Coaching
3 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
4 8 (20.00%) Analytics
4 8 (20.00%) Data Management
4 8 (20.00%) Ontologies
4 8 (20.00%) Scrum
4 8 (20.00%) User Experience
5 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (17.50%) Identity Management
5 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
5 7 (17.50%) Migration
5 7 (17.50%) Open Source
6 6 (15.00%) API Integration
6 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 6 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) Java
1 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) Degree
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) ISEB
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
1 6 (15.00%) GDPR
2 3 (7.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.50%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) ForgeRock
1 7 (17.50%) Ping Identity
2 6 (15.00%) Informatica
3 4 (10.00%) IBM
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) SAP
4 3 (7.50%) Ab Initio
4 3 (7.50%) Optimizely
5 2 (5.00%) Sparx
6 1 (2.50%) Ariba
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Talend