Ontologies Job Trends in the North of England

Ontology
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Ontologies skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 279 272
Rank change year-on-year +24 -7 +152
Permanent jobs citing Ontologies 8 4 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.075% 0.043% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.048% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £79,250 - -
25th Percentile - - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £80,625 - £72,500
90th Percentile £82,875 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +36.00% -24.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Ontologies falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,592 8,328 7,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.06% 90.23% 89.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,558 3,739 5,516
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,507
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -1.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ontologies relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Ontologies job vacancy trend in the North of England

Ontologies
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ontologies.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Ontologies

Ontologies
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ontologies within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +28 8 £80,000 -
Ontologies
England

Ontologies
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (25.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) Neo4j
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Ontologist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Taxonomies
2 3 (37.50%) Semantic Web
3 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) AI
3 5 (62.50%) Data Management
4 4 (50.00%) Analytics
4 4 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (50.00%) Validation
5 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Data Management
5 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 1 (12.50%) Data Science
6 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (12.50%) RDF
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SHACL
1 1 (12.50%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Data Quality