Information Management Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Information Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Information Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 90 100
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +24
Contract jobs citing Information Management 12 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.90% 0.86% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.05% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £606 £263 £161
25th Percentile £634 £298 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £363 £310
Median % change year-on-year +87.59% +16.94% -34.74%
75th Percentile - £403 £438
90th Percentile - £424 £583
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £45.00 - £26.20
25th Percentile £47.50 - £34.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £12.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -75.51% -27.94%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +21.43% -50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Information 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,200 1,235 1,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.96% 82.11% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 469 880
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.78% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £688 £638 £738
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 326 375
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.38 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.86% +92.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57.13 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £76.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%

Information Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Information Management job vacancy trend in the East of England

Information Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Information Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Information Management

Information Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Information Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Information Management

Information Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Management in the East of England

Information Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Management within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Hertfordshire +5 11 £680 +125.73% 7
Cambridgeshire -4 1 £625 - 2
Information Management
England

Information Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) DNS
1 8 (66.67%) FTP
1 8 (66.67%) HTTP
1 8 (66.67%) Network Security
1 8 (66.67%) SMTP
1 8 (66.67%) SSL
General
1 10 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Management Information System
2 8 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (66.67%) CSOC
2 8 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (66.67%) Cyberattack
2 8 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (16.67%) FPGA
3 2 (16.67%) Verilog
3 2 (16.67%) VHDL
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (8.33%) Life Science
4 1 (8.33%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Analytics
1 8 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Behavioural Analytics
1 8 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 8 (66.67%) Information Security
1 8 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 8 (66.67%) Network Packet Capture
1 8 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 8 (66.67%) SIEM
1 8 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (58.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (58.33%) Runbook
2 7 (58.33%) SOAR
2 7 (58.33%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) FPGA Design
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
1 7 (58.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Intel
1 2 (16.67%) Lattice Semiconductor
1 2 (16.67%) Xilinx