ERD Contracts

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ERD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ERD over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 674 786
Rank change year-on-year +86 +112 -93
Contract jobs citing ERD 6 23 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.041% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.046% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 30
10th Percentile £388 - £523
25th Percentile £400 £406 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £570 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -18.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £742 £725 £763
90th Percentile £744 £816 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £413 £550
% change year-on-year -3.03% -25.00% +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £72.50
25th Percentile - £71.42 £75.12
Median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -6.30% +48.84%
75th Percentile - £81.99 £86.23
90th Percentile - - £87.42
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £76.71 £81.86
% change year-on-year - -6.30% +48.84%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

ERD
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ERD.

Daily rate trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ERD over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ERD in the UK

ERD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ERD.

Hourly rate trend for ERD in the UK

ERD
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ERD within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +83 5 £400 -29.82% 4
UK excluding London +38 5 £400 -3.03% 2
South East +12 5 £400 -3.03%

ERD
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 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon Neptune
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Big Data
1 4 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) kappa
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (33.33%) Blazor
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) WCF
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe