Freedom of Information Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Freedom of Information (FOI)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Freedom of Information over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 115 126
Rank change year-on-year -31 +11 +23
Contract jobs citing Freedom of Information 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.089% 0.11% 0.095%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.24% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +45.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £638 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 £725 £500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +45.00% -1.23%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Freedom of Information 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 819 666 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.45% 37.99% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 466 393
10th Percentile £363 £335 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £688 £689 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £564 £575 £589
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.29% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 5
10th Percentile £19.50 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £22.83 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £36.66 £26.45 £25.79
% change year-on-year +38.60% +2.56% -17.47%

Freedom of Information
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Freedom of Information relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Freedom of Information job vacancy trend in the City of London

Freedom of Information
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Freedom of Information.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Freedom of Information.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Legal Technology
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Active Listening
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Journey Map
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Journey Map
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA