Knowledge Transfer Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Knowledge Transfer
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 2.20% 4.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £467 £609 -
25th Percentile £473 £611 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £623 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% - -
75th Percentile £503 £730 -
90th Percentile £506 - -
South West median daily rate £588 £595 £563
% change year-on-year -1.26% +5.78% +22.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

Knowledge Transfer falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78 105 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 85.71% 88.98% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 57 136
10th Percentile £203 £288 £172
25th Percentile £363 £450 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -9.30% +8.59%
75th Percentile £553 £634 £650
90th Percentile £595 £712 £744
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 52
10th Percentile - £14.41 £17.46
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.71 £23.43
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +175.56%
75th Percentile £16.97 £22.79 £65.98
90th Percentile £23.09 £43.84 £69.26
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Knowledge Transfer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Knowledge Transfer job vacancy trend in Dorset

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Knowledge Transfer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. 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
Bournemouth - 1 £505 - 2
Knowledge Transfer
South West

Knowledge Transfer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft