Freedom of Information Contracts in England

Freedom of Information (FOI)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 510 596 745
Rank change year-on-year +86 +149 -158
Contract jobs citing Freedom of Information 38 60 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.12% 0.063%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.36% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 29
10th Percentile £276 £319 £227
25th Percentile £364 £525 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +36.84% +24.67%
75th Percentile £531 £656 £538
90th Percentile £608 £775 £585
UK median daily rate £425 £624 £450
% change year-on-year -31.86% +38.61% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile - £19.06 £19.20
25th Percentile - £19.60 £23.25
Median hourly rate £11.95 £21.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.10% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £13.82 £33.02 £31.01
90th Percentile £21.14 £39.92 £39.12
UK median hourly rate £12.25 £21.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% -19.23% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
England

Freedom of Information is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,389 16,804 24,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.72% 33.64% 33.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,486 11,666 17,145
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 591 637
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.09% -15.15% +1.09%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £66.69
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%

Freedom of Information
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Freedom of Information as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Freedom of Information in England

Freedom of Information
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Freedom of Information in England.

Daily rate trend for Freedom of Information in England

Freedom of Information
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Freedom of Information in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Freedom of Information in England

Freedom of Information
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Freedom of Information in England.

Hourly rate trend for Freedom of Information in England

Freedom of Information
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Freedom of Information in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Freedom of Information in England

Freedom of Information
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Freedom of Information within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
London +99 29 £475 -25.49% 9
North of England +29 3 £305 - 13
Midlands +26 3 £425 -34.62% 39
West Midlands +15 3 £425 -34.62% 3
South East +22 2 - - 40
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
North West +26 1 £305 - 7
South West - 1 £158 - 4
Freedom of Information
UK

Freedom of Information
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.53%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.63%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Big Data
1 9 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) Star Schema
3 3 (7.89%) Power BI
4 2 (5.26%) GIS
5 1 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.63%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) ERwin
2 3 (7.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 14 (36.84%) Legal
3 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 11 (28.95%) Finance
5 5 (13.16%) Law
6 4 (10.53%) Police
6 4 (10.53%) Publishing
7 3 (7.89%) Back Office
8 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.63%) Local Government
9 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Senior
2 8 (21.05%) Administrator
3 7 (18.42%) Senior Manager
4 6 (15.79%) Governance Manager
4 6 (15.79%) Information Governance Manager
5 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Data Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Data Administrator
7 3 (7.89%) Data Analytics Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Integration Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Product Owner
7 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Asset Management Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Information Officer
8 2 (5.26%) Migration Project Manager
8 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Avro
1 1 (2.63%) JSON
1 1 (2.63%) JSON Schema
1 1 (2.63%) XML
1 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (52.63%) Data Protection Act
2 19 (50.00%) Freedom of Information Act
3 15 (39.47%) Management Information System
4 5 (13.16%) CMDB
4 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
5 3 (7.89%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.63%) NHS
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) Data Protection
2 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
3 12 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (26.32%) Agile
5 9 (23.68%) Risk Management
6 8 (21.05%) Analytics
6 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
6 8 (21.05%) Impact Assessments
6 8 (21.05%) Information Governance
6 8 (21.05%) Master Data Management
7 6 (15.79%) Due Diligence
7 6 (15.79%) Project Management
7 6 (15.79%) Records Management
8 5 (13.16%) Customer Service
8 5 (13.16%) Information Management
8 5 (13.16%) Line Management
8 5 (13.16%) Migration
8 5 (13.16%) PRINCE2
8 5 (13.16%) Scrum
9 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) MCSE
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) GDPR
2 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.63%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Adobe
3 1 (2.63%) VMware