Ontologies Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Ontology
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Ontologies skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ontologies over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 337 454
Rank change year-on-year +43 +117 +154
Contract jobs citing Ontologies 10 8 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.052% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.059% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 18
10th Percentile £288 £419 £450
25th Percentile £325 £503 £637
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £556 £725
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% -23.28% +3.57%
75th Percentile £436 £669 £1,000
90th Percentile £543 £737 £1,013
UK median daily rate £436 £725 £597
% change year-on-year -39.86% +21.51% -14.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36.75
25th Percentile - - £37.88
Median hourly rate - - £39.75
75th Percentile - - £41.63
90th Percentile - - £42.75
UK median hourly rate - - £39.75
% change year-on-year - - -56.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Ontologies falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Ontologies
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Ontologies as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Ontologies trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Ontologies
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ontologies.

Ontologies daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ontologies
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Ontologies over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Ontologies daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Ontologies
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Ontologies.

Ontologies hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Ontologies
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Big Data
1 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (40.00%) Metadata
2 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) ERwin
2 4 (40.00%) ER Studio
General
1 4 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (10.00%) FpML
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Fabric
2 2 (20.00%) Omics
3 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (60.00%) Data Strategy
3 5 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
4 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (40.00%) Metadata Management
4 4 (40.00%) Physical Data Model
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Use Case
7 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) Product Management
7 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Foundry
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Palantir
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) Sparx