Knowledge Transfer Contracts

Knowledge Transfer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Knowledge Transfer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 262 385
Rank change year-on-year -46 +123 -52
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 322 606 600
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.01% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.13% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 410 422
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £588
90th Percentile £738 £745 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 15
10th Percentile £17.98 £13.58 £10.88
25th Percentile £23.34 £15.50 £11.17
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.00 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year +194.12% +7.19% -79.27%
75th Percentile £86.50 £19.20 £24.38
90th Percentile - £26.70 £61.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £17.00 £15.74
% change year-on-year +13.72% +8.01% -79.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Knowledge Transfer is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Transfer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -18 258 £544 -0.50% 111
UK excluding London -19 179 £500 -4.76% 75
Work from Home +20 126 £501 -4.67% 34
London +11 105 £585 +6.36% 33
North of England -7 46 £500 - 21
Scotland +36 35 £475 -3.80% 3
South West +18 33 £475 -24.00% 12
East of England +32 26 £550 +83.33% 5
North West -17 26 £582 +16.40% 15
South East -35 23 £544 -1.09% 18
Yorkshire +15 17 £450 -14.29% 3
Midlands -4 15 £575 +13.58% 13
West Midlands +5 11 £538 +6.17% 10
East Midlands +20 4 £638 - 3
Wales +12 2 £800 +68.42% 1
North East +11 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland +8 1 - - 2

Knowledge Transfer
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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (8.07%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.28%) Confluence
3 11 (3.42%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.24%) Mendix
5 2 (0.62%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) JBoss
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 12 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.48%) Workday HCM
3 7 (2.17%) SAP PM
4 4 (1.24%) SAP CO
4 4 (1.24%) SAP FI
4 4 (1.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle ASCP
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle SCM
5 3 (0.93%) SAP MII
5 3 (0.93%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.93%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.93%) SAP PS
5 3 (0.93%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.62%) Unica
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.31%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 69 (21.43%) Azure
2 26 (8.07%) AWS
3 23 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.35%) OCI
5 12 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.42%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.11%) Azure Stack
8 9 (2.80%) GCP
9 8 (2.48%) SaaS
10 6 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.86%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.86%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.24%) IaaS
11 4 (1.24%) PaaS
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.01%) Firewall
2 13 (4.04%) SD-WAN
2 13 (4.04%) WAN
3 12 (3.73%) BGP
4 7 (2.17%) DSL
5 6 (1.86%) DNS
5 6 (1.86%) LAN
6 5 (1.55%) InfiniBand
6 5 (1.55%) Network Security
6 5 (1.55%) WLAN
7 4 (1.24%) DHCP
8 3 (0.93%) VPN
9 2 (0.62%) IPv6
9 2 (0.62%) SSL
9 2 (0.62%) VoIP
10 1 (0.31%) GSM
10 1 (0.31%) HTTP
10 1 (0.31%) MPLS
10 1 (0.31%) OSPF
10 1 (0.31%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.04%) Ingres
2 8 (2.48%) Power BI
2 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.93%) Metadata
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.62%) Big Data
6 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.62%) Parquet
6 2 (0.62%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.62%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.31%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.31%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.70%) JIRA
2 10 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.86%) MLflow
4 4 (1.24%) Mocha
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.93%) Git
6 2 (0.62%) Selenium
6 2 (0.62%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.62%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 109 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 85 (26.40%) Finance
3 56 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 47 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.21%) Manufacturing
6 19 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (4.35%) Banking
8 14 (4.35%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.04%) Marketing
10 12 (3.73%) Retail
11 10 (3.11%) Electronics
12 8 (2.48%) Law
13 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.86%) Front Office
15 5 (1.55%) Local Government
16 4 (1.24%) Back Office
17 2 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.62%) French Language
17 2 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (13.35%) Analyst
2 39 (12.11%) Developer
3 36 (11.18%) Senior
4 30 (9.32%) Consultant
5 28 (8.70%) Lead
6 21 (6.52%) Architect
7 20 (6.21%) Project Manager
8 16 (4.97%) DBA
9 15 (4.66%) Business Analyst
10 14 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.35%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.42%) .NET Developer
11 11 (3.42%) Ingres DBA
12 10 (3.11%) React Developer
12 10 (3.11%) Service Manager
13 9 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.80%) Transition Manager
13 9 (2.80%) Windows Engineer
14 8 (2.48%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.90%) .NET
2 17 (5.28%) React
3 7 (2.17%) .NET Framework
4 6 (1.86%) HTML
4 6 (1.86%) XML
5 5 (1.55%) CSS
5 5 (1.55%) REST
5 5 (1.55%) Spring
6 4 (1.24%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.24%) FpML
6 4 (1.24%) Jest
6 4 (1.24%) JSON
6 4 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.24%) Redux
7 3 (0.93%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.62%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.62%) Entity Framework
8 2 (0.62%) Node.js
8 2 (0.62%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.45%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.66%) Private Cloud
3 12 (3.73%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (3.73%) PKI
3 12 (3.73%) Virtual Team
3 12 (3.73%) Wiki
4 11 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.48%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.86%) Derivative
9 5 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.93%) FMCG
12 2 (0.62%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.49%) Windows
2 18 (5.59%) Linux
3 12 (3.73%) Unix
4 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.24%) Solaris
5 4 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.93%) AIX
6 3 (0.93%) VMS
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (15.84%) Agile
3 39 (12.11%) DevOps
4 36 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (10.87%) Migration
6 31 (9.63%) Project Management
6 31 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (9.01%) Project Delivery
8 27 (8.39%) Mentoring
9 26 (8.07%) Roadmaps
10 25 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (7.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (7.76%) ERP
10 25 (7.76%) ITIL
11 23 (7.14%) CI/CD
12 22 (6.83%) Cybersecurity
13 21 (6.52%) Analytics
13 21 (6.52%) Data Migration
14 20 (6.21%) Business Analysis
15 19 (5.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.35%) Java
2 13 (4.04%) SQL
3 11 (3.42%) Python
4 8 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.17%) Ruby
6 6 (1.86%) C#
6 6 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.86%) Scala
7 5 (1.55%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.62%) VBA
9 1 (0.31%) ABAP
9 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.31%) Perl
9 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.31%) X++
Qualifications
1 51 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 43 (13.35%) Degree
3 30 (9.32%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.90%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.80%) SAP Certification
7 7 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.24%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.93%) CCNP
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.93%) PMP
10 2 (0.62%) CCIE
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.31%) MCSE
11 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.35%) QA
2 11 (3.42%) Government Security Classifications
3 10 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 8 (2.48%) SLA
6 6 (1.86%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.86%) PMO
7 5 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.24%) GxP
9 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.62%) GDPR
9 2 (0.62%) NIST
10 1 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.62%) Docker
6 1 (0.31%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.31%) XenApp
6 1 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (3.11%) Ansible
2 8 (2.48%) Progress Chef
2 8 (2.48%) Puppet
3 7 (2.17%) CFEngine
3 7 (2.17%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.17%) PowerBroker
4 4 (1.24%) Avamar
4 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.93%) SCCM
5 3 (0.93%) Terraform
6 2 (0.62%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.62%) vRealize
7 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.31%) Grafana
7 1 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.31%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 47 (14.60%) SAP
3 31 (9.63%) Oracle
4 19 (5.90%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.42%) Google
6 10 (3.11%) VMware
7 9 (2.80%) Workday
8 8 (2.48%) Databricks
8 8 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.48%) Yardi
9 7 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.86%) Ariba
10 6 (1.86%) Cisco
10 6 (1.86%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.86%) IBM
11 4 (1.24%) Cadence
11 4 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.93%) Adobe
12 3 (0.93%) Citrix
13 2 (0.62%) CA