Ontologies Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ontology
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ontologies skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 555 541
Rank change year-on-year +65 -14 +217
Permanent jobs citing Ontologies 19 11 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.045% 0.031% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.034% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 14
10th Percentile £79,250 - £42,439
25th Percentile - - £52,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £56,400
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.64%
75th Percentile £80,625 - £64,908
90th Percentile £82,875 - £66,778
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -5.88% +38.78% -25.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ontologies relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Ontologies job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Ontologies
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ontologies.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ontologies

Ontologies
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ontologies within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +45 10 - - 6
North West +24 8 £80,000 -
North of England +12 8 £80,000 -
Midlands +21 1 - -
East Midlands -8 1 - -
Ontologies
UK

Ontologies
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Collibra
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) Data Lake
1 13 (68.42%) Metadata
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Neo4j
General
1 17 (89.47%) Social Skills
2 10 (52.63%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Ontologist
3 1 (5.26%) Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Life Science
2 10 (52.63%) Algorithms
2 10 (52.63%) Omics
3 8 (42.11%) Taxonomies
4 3 (15.79%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 17 (89.47%) AI
3 14 (73.68%) Analytics
4 13 (68.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (63.16%) Data Strategy
6 11 (57.89%) Computer Science
6 11 (57.89%) Data Science
6 11 (57.89%) Machine Learning
7 10 (52.63%) Bioinformatics
7 10 (52.63%) Data Architecture
7 10 (52.63%) Decision-Making
7 10 (52.63%) Hematology
7 10 (52.63%) Immunology
7 10 (52.63%) Metadata Management
7 10 (52.63%) Statistics
8 6 (31.58%) Data Management
9 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
9 4 (21.05%) Validation
10 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Data Management
10 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Java
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SHACL
1 1 (5.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 10 (52.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) Accessibility
1 10 (52.63%) CDISC
1 10 (52.63%) GxP
1 10 (52.63%) HL7
2 7 (36.84%) Data Quality