Information Manager Contracts in England

Information Manager
UK > England

The median Information Manager daily rate in England is £539, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 488 577
Rank change year-on-year +47 +89 +89
Contract jobs requiring an Information Manager 37 43 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 51
10th Percentile £400 £315 £290
25th Percentile £425 £351 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £618
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -14.98% +5.11%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £650
90th Percentile £725 £736 £800
UK median daily rate £539 £525 £609
% change year-on-year +2.67% -13.76% +5.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £27.64 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.81% - -
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year -41.81% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,468 33,792 45,579
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.77% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,943 22,421 32,381
10th Percentile £300 £284 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.40% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,440 1,334
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%
75th Percentile £63.38 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +88.21%

Information Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Information Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Manager in England

Information Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Information Manager in England

Information Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Manager in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Manager in England

Information Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Information Manager in England

Information Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
London +34 14 £563 +50.00% 48
South East +39 11 £520 -13.42% 20
South West +37 5 £625 -6.37% 12
Midlands - 4 £550 - 19
East Midlands - 3 - - 9
North West - 1 - - 13
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 10
East of England - 1 £519 - 8
North of England - 1 - - 21
Information Manager
UK

Information Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Information Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Information Manager in the job title.

1 21 (56.76%) Information Security
2 12 (32.43%) Data Protection
3 11 (29.73%) Risk Management
3 11 (29.73%) CISSP
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 10 (27.03%) CISM
4 10 (27.03%) Law
4 10 (27.03%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (24.32%) Degree
6 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
6 8 (21.62%) Information Assurance
6 8 (21.62%) Legal
6 8 (21.62%) Management Information System
6 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
7 6 (16.22%) NIST
7 6 (16.22%) Finance
7 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (16.22%) Information Management
7 6 (16.22%) GDPR
7 6 (16.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (13.51%) CRISC
8 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
8 5 (13.51%) Project Management
8 5 (13.51%) Impact Assessments
9 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
9 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
9 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
9 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing

Information Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.41%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.70%) GCP
2 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Firewall
1 3 (8.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Law
3 8 (21.62%) Legal
3 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 6 (16.22%) Finance
5 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.41%) Local Government
6 2 (5.41%) Military
6 2 (5.41%) Police
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) MIDP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.11%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Information Security
2 12 (32.43%) Data Protection
3 11 (29.73%) Risk Management
4 10 (27.03%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (21.62%) Information Assurance
6 6 (16.22%) Information Management
6 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (13.51%) Impact Assessments
7 5 (13.51%) Project Management
8 4 (10.81%) Agile
8 4 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
8 4 (10.81%) Information Governance
8 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (8.11%) Data Sharing
9 3 (8.11%) DevSecOps
9 3 (8.11%) Records Management
9 3 (8.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) CISSP
2 10 (27.03%) CISM
3 9 (24.32%) Degree
4 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
5 5 (13.51%) CRISC
6 4 (10.81%) CISA
6 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
7 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (8.11%) GIAC
8 2 (5.41%) CISMP
8 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
8 2 (5.41%) RIBA
9 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
9 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (16.22%) GDPR
1 6 (16.22%) NIST
2 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 3 (8.11%) NIST 800
4 1 (2.70%) COBIT
4 1 (2.70%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.70%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 2 (5.41%) Ariba
1 2 (5.41%) Autodesk
1 2 (5.41%) SAP
2 1 (2.70%) Virgin Media