Knowledge Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Knowledge Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Knowledge Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -26 - -
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Management 8 13 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% 2.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 2.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £464 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £418 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% - -
75th Percentile £502 £430 -
90th Percentile £512 - -
England median daily rate £468 £463 £499
% change year-on-year +1.08% -7.31% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.34 - -
Median hourly rate £15.68 - -
75th Percentile £16.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +185.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Knowledge Management 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 746 510 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.20% 86.88% 83.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 315 426
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -6.18% -4.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 45
10th Percentile £15.90 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.00 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Knowledge Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Knowledge Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Knowledge Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Knowledge Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Knowledge Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Knowledge Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Nottinghamshire -10 4 £481 +15.27% 1
Derbyshire -4 3 - - 4
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Knowledge Management
England

Knowledge Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Head of IT
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Support Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Management
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
2 3 (37.50%) Line Management
2 3 (37.50%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Pattern Recognition
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (37.50%) Samsung
3 1 (12.50%) Genesys
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) SAP