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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +25
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Management 7 13 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.79% 1.87% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 2.19% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £464 £313 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £418 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.27% -30.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £502 £430 £625
90th Percentile £512 - -
England median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% -9.09%

All Process and 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 757 594 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.63% 85.22% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 351 470
10th Percentile £189 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £519 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 27 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.06 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.00 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +7.20% +33.02%
75th Percentile £25.11 £46.13 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £52.00 £64.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 24 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
Nottinghamshire +1 3 £481 +15.27% 1
Derbyshire -3 3 - -
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 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Head of IT
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Android
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
1 3 (42.86%) Line Management
1 3 (42.86%) Patch Management
1 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (42.86%) Samsung
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft