Ontologies Job Trends

Ontology
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs 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 617 668 678
Rank change year-on-year +51 +10 +317
Permanent jobs citing Ontologies 36 31 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.058% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.064% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 24
10th Percentile - £70,625 £45,405
25th Percentile £55,000 £75,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +38.78% -25.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 - £56,400
% change year-on-year - - -31.64%

All Process & 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 48,596 48,532 50,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.69% 89.94%
Number of salaries quoted 28,664 23,590 38,164
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Ontologies
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Ontologies job vacancy trend in the UK

Ontologies
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ontologies.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ontologies

Ontologies
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ontologies over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 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
England +69 31 £80,000 -5.88% 16
UK excluding London +65 19 £80,000 - 11
London +54 12 £70,000 -17.65% 10
South East +45 10 - - 6
North West +24 8 £80,000 -
North of England +12 8 £80,000 -
Work from Home +61 2 £100,000 +26.98% 10
Midlands +21 1 - -
East Midlands -8 1 - -

Ontologies
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) Vertex AI
4 2 (5.56%) Collibra
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) Metadata
2 13 (36.11%) Data Lake
3 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.78%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) ER Studio
1 1 (2.78%) ERwin
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
4 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Lead
2 9 (25.00%) Consultant
3 3 (8.33%) Ontologist
4 2 (5.56%) Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Data Modeller
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (27.78%) FHIR
2 4 (11.11%) OpenID
2 4 (11.11%) REST
2 4 (11.11%) SAML
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Life Science
2 10 (27.78%) Algorithms
2 10 (27.78%) Omics
3 9 (25.00%) Taxonomies
4 5 (13.89%) Data Structures
5 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
6 3 (8.33%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) AI
2 24 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 20 (55.56%) Analytics
4 14 (38.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (36.11%) Data Engineering
5 13 (36.11%) Data Integration
5 13 (36.11%) Data Strategy
6 12 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 12 (33.33%) Machine Learning
7 11 (30.56%) Computer Science
7 11 (30.56%) Data Science
7 11 (30.56%) Decision-Making
7 11 (30.56%) Metadata Management
8 10 (27.78%) Bioinformatics
8 10 (27.78%) Hematology
8 10 (27.78%) Immunology
8 10 (27.78%) Statistics
9 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) Java
3 2 (5.56%) SHACL
3 2 (5.56%) SPARQL
4 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Degree
2 10 (27.78%) PhD
3 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) DV Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (41.67%) Accessibility
2 12 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 10 (27.78%) CDISC
3 10 (27.78%) GxP
3 10 (27.78%) HL7
4 4 (11.11%) SLA
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
5 1 (2.78%) GRC
5 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Foundry
1 12 (33.33%) Palantir
2 3 (8.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.78%) Sparx
3 1 (2.78%) Teradata