Ontologies Jobs

Ontology
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Ontologies skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Ontologies over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 808 913
Rank change year-on-year +109 +105 +214
Permanent jobs citing Ontologies 10 104 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.10% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.12% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 27
10th Percentile £62,000 £45,405 -
25th Percentile £78,750 £52,325 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £59,300 £76,383
Median % change year-on-year +55.99% -22.36% +9.90%
75th Percentile £111,250 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £127,100 £92,250 £101,185
UK excluding London median annual salary £98,000 £54,825 £68,316
% change year-on-year +78.75% -19.75% +1.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ontologies as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ontologies in the UK

Ontologies
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Ontologies.

Salary trend for Ontologies in the UK

Ontologies
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ontologies over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Ontologies in the UK

Ontologies
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ontologies within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 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 +132 10 £92,500 +55.99% 6
Work from Home +102 6 £90,000 +59.57% 7
UK excluding London +109 4 £98,000 +78.75% 4
North of England +51 3 £52,500 -3.36% 1
Yorkshire +60 2 - -
North East - 2 - -
South West +104 1 £143,500 +164.15% 1
London +103 1 - - 3
North West +8 1 £52,500 - 1

Ontologies
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Neptune
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Collibra
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Neo4j
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (20.00%) Triplestore
2 1 (10.00%) ArangoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Hugging Face
2 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Jena
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) JSON-LD
3 1 (10.00%) Keras
3 1 (10.00%) NLTK
3 1 (10.00%) NumPy
3 1 (10.00%) OpenCV
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) Plotly
3 1 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (10.00%) Seaborn
3 1 (10.00%) SpaCy
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (20.00%) Semantic Web
3 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (10.00%) Blog
3 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (10.00%) FMCG
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
1 7 (70.00%) Data Science
2 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (40.00%) RDF
4 3 (30.00%) Business Development
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Management
4 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
4 3 (30.00%) LLM
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SPARQL
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Gremlin
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Julia
3 1 (10.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) MBA
3 1 (10.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks
1 1 (10.00%) Foundry
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Informatica
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (10.00%) Palantir