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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 527 619
Rank change year-on-year +41 +92 +84
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 40 63 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 47 45
10th Percentile £400 £263 £427
25th Percentile £457 £325 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £763
90th Percentile £700 £692 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £435 £460
% change year-on-year +13.10% -5.43% -12.38%
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 9,933 13,040 19,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.96% 30.32% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,305 8,396 13,221
10th Percentile £300 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £651 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 904 636
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +38.98% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £63.88
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £29.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +5.74% +32.95% +4.04%

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 12 May 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 12 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 +51 38 £500 +2.04% 83
London +32 27 £500 -11.70% 52
Work from Home +32 15 £475 -2.56% 38
UK excluding London +33 8 £492 +13.10% 46
North of England +18 6 £492 +40.57% 9
North West +11 5 £492 +40.57% 6
South East +39 1 - - 17
West Midlands +12 1 £200 -64.29% 6
Midlands +8 1 £200 -64.29% 12
Yorkshire - 1 £438 - 3
East of England - 1 £675 - 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 (20.00%) 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
2 1 (2.50%) Workfront
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
4 1 (2.50%) Veeva
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 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) ERwin
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 8 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Marketing
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.00%) Publishing
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Electronics
6 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.50%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Spanish Language
6 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%) Taxonomist
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 20 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (27.50%) Data Governance
3 9 (22.50%) Coaching
4 8 (20.00%) Analytics
4 8 (20.00%) Data Management
4 8 (20.00%) Data Modelling
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%) Ontologies
5 7 (17.50%) Open Source
6 6 (15.00%) API Integration
6 6 (15.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
6 6 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
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 5 (12.50%) Degree
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) ISEB
3 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