Hybrid/Remote Ontologist Contract Job Trends

Ontologist
UK > Work from Home

The median Ontologist daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Ontologist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.016% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £515 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 12,004 9,118 13,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.89% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,642 6,172 9,295
10th Percentile £350 £330 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £634
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 625 240 570
10th Percentile £17.10 £14.00 £14.27
25th Percentile £31.25 £16.38 £22.59
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.57 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.35% -19.62% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.56% -26.67% -16.67%

Ontologist Skill Set
Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 18 June 2026, Ontologist contract job roles required 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Ontologist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) RDF
1 2 (100.00%) SPARQL
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) SHACL
2 1 (50.00%) Slack
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case

Ontologist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Slack
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Podcast
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RDF
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SPARQL
2 1 (50.00%) SHACL