Hybrid/Remote Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends

Semantic Layer
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 - 365
Rank change year-on-year - - +147
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.065% - 0.006%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.35% - 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £434 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £513
75th Percentile £669 - £519
90th Percentile £731 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -16.67% +17.07% -

All Database & BI Skills
Work from Home

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,005 2,155 2,963
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.58% 20.20% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,501 2,215
10th Percentile £319 £351 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £716 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 49
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.43 £19.20
25th Percentile £33.15 £26.25 £20.82
Median hourly rate £62.75 £38.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +62.99% -4.35% -38.08%
75th Percentile £82.50 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £66.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.02% -9.87% -25.26%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Semantic Layer over the 6 months to 16 February 2026.

Semantic Layer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Semantic Layer
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Looker
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (14.29%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
1 1 (14.29%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Master Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Business Enablement
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) EU AI Act
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google