ERD Job Trends

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring ERD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 741 708
Rank change year-on-year +100 -33 +352
Permanent jobs citing ERD 2 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.002% 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £52,000
25th Percentile £61,250 - £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £100,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +42.86% -30.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - £78,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ERD 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,523 54,873 47,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.89% 85.86% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 28,510 36,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

ERD
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ERD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

ERD job vacancy trend in the UK

ERD
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ERD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ERD

ERD
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ERD within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. 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
England +110 2 £62,500 -37.50% 4
Work from Home +87 1 £62,500 -37.50% 2
London +72 1 £62,500 -37.50% 2
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 3

ERD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (50.00%) Software Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) HOOD
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks