Management Information System Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Management Information Systems
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Management Information System in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Management Information System over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing Management Information System 46 30 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.23% 4.67% 2.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.69% 10.83% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile £383 £280 £345
25th Percentile £469 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £744 £581 £713
90th Percentile £808 £593 £746
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -8.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £22.51 -
25th Percentile £17.98 £22.51 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.32 £23.05 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +9.76% +47.16%
75th Percentile £20.66 £33.79 £21.50
90th Percentile - £39.92 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.91 £23.03 £23.60
% change year-on-year -9.19% -2.44% +65.38%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Management Information System falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 260 277 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 29.55% 43.15% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 183 112
10th Percentile £300 £250 £158
25th Percentile £413 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £653 £538 £653
90th Percentile £732 £600 £736
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 6
10th Percentile £16.01 - £16.25
25th Percentile £43.75 - £27.88
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -63.54% -20.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 - £56.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £31.75 £58.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.53
% change year-on-year - +8.98% +0.10%

Management Information System
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Management Information System relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Management Information System job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Management Information System
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Management Information System.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Management Information System

Management Information System
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Management Information System in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Management Information System in Birmingham

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Management Information System.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Management Information System

Management Information System
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) AutoCAD
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.17%) Navisworks
1 1 (2.17%) ProjectWise
1 1 (2.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) NetSuite
1 2 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft 365
1 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
2 7 (15.22%) Azure
3 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) AWS
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (41.30%) DNS
1 19 (41.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 19 (41.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (28.26%) TCP/IP
3 11 (23.91%) BIG-IP
3 11 (23.91%) HTTP
3 11 (23.91%) SSL
3 11 (23.91%) Wireshark
4 8 (17.39%) DMZ
4 8 (17.39%) Network Security
5 3 (6.52%) WAN
5 3 (6.52%) Wireless
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (4.35%) Firewall
6 2 (4.35%) LAN
6 2 (4.35%) VLAN
6 2 (4.35%) WLAN
7 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 17 (36.96%) Banking
1 17 (36.96%) Investment Banking
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Local Government
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Network Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) IP Network Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Web Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) PowerShell Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco Voice Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Information Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Payments Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Security Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Voice Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Graph
1 3 (6.52%) Middleware
2 1 (2.17%) Django
2 1 (2.17%) Flask
2 1 (2.17%) JSON
2 1 (2.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) Load Balancing
2 11 (23.91%) Data Loss Prevention
2 11 (23.91%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (21.74%) Migration
4 8 (17.39%) Information Security
4 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (17.39%) ITSM
5 6 (13.04%) Agile
5 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (10.87%) Analytics
6 5 (10.87%) Business Strategy
6 5 (10.87%) Incident Response
6 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.70%) Asset Management
7 4 (8.70%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.70%) Patch Management
7 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) CISSP
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) ACCA
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) CIMA
4 1 (2.17%) CIPFA
4 1 (2.17%) CISM
4 1 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.17%) CRISC
4 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.17%) PMP
4 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.70%) GRC
1 4 (8.70%) NIST
1 4 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) ISO 19650
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 19 (41.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (23.91%) Firmware
3 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) F5
1 19 (41.30%) VMware
2 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 11 (23.91%) Blue Coat
3 11 (23.91%) McAfee
3 11 (23.91%) NetApp
4 6 (13.04%) Splunk
5 5 (10.87%) Cisco
5 5 (10.87%) Palo Alto
5 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.52%) Ribbon
7 2 (4.35%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (4.35%) Meraki
7 2 (4.35%) Remedy
7 2 (4.35%) Snow
8 1 (2.17%) Autodesk
8 1 (2.17%) SAP
8 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.17%) Sophos