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 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 51 54
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 -30
Contract jobs citing Management Information System 58 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.95% 2.16% 2.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.18% 7.65% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 13
10th Percentile - £250 £430
25th Percentile £475 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £656
90th Percentile - £750 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.77
25th Percentile £22.50 - £18.23
Median hourly rate £23.03 £22.00 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% -10.75% +21.55%
75th Percentile £23.93 - £26.98
90th Percentile £24.57 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £22.80 £24.65
% change year-on-year +0.88% -7.51% +22.39%

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 319 170 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 38.20% 28.24% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 113 155
10th Percentile £247 £166 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +16.67% -1.37%
75th Percentile £545 £638 £575
90th Percentile £638 £689 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 17
10th Percentile £17.13 £19.00 £19.05
25th Percentile £18.20 £28.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% -53.15% +268.48%
75th Percentile £23.50 £55.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £24.72 £58.08 £68.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.08 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year +4.96% +3.87% +19.90%

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
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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.72%) Azure
1 1 (1.72%) SaaS
1 1 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 29 (50.00%) DNS
1 29 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 29 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 19 (32.76%) BIG-IP
2 19 (32.76%) HTTP
2 19 (32.76%) SSL
2 19 (32.76%) TCP/IP
2 19 (32.76%) Wireshark
3 15 (25.86%) DMZ
4 11 (18.97%) Network Security
5 1 (1.72%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.72%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 19 (32.76%) Fiddler
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 36 (62.07%) Banking
1 36 (62.07%) Investment Banking
2 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Automotive
5 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Military
5 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Network Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) IP Network Engineer
2 15 (25.86%) Web Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) Site Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (24.14%) Splunk Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Operations Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Payments Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) IT Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Junior
8 3 (5.17%) Junior Network Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Service Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (24.14%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.07%) Middleware
3 1 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
2 1 (1.72%) Learning Management System
2 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Linux
1 14 (24.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 19 (32.76%) Migration
3 16 (27.59%) Change Management
4 15 (25.86%) Data Loss Prevention
4 15 (25.86%) Data Modelling
4 15 (25.86%) Incident Response
4 15 (25.86%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 15 (25.86%) Proactive Monitoring
4 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (24.14%) Computer Science
5 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
5 14 (24.14%) Dashboard Development
5 14 (24.14%) Data Ingestion
5 14 (24.14%) DevOps
5 14 (24.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 14 (24.14%) Observability
5 14 (24.14%) Performance Metrics
5 14 (24.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 14 (24.14%) Validation
6 10 (17.24%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.76%) Python
2 14 (24.14%) Bash
3 1 (1.72%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Degree
2 14 (24.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (43.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (25.86%) Firmware
3 14 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (32.76%) Ansible
2 14 (24.14%) Kibana
2 14 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (24.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (50.00%) F5
2 25 (43.10%) VMware
3 19 (32.76%) Blue Coat
3 19 (32.76%) McAfee
3 19 (32.76%) NetApp
4 14 (24.14%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) SAP