Information Retrieval Contracts in England

Information Retrieval
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Information Retrieval skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Retrieval over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 666 772
Rank change year-on-year +136 +106 -163
Contract jobs citing Information Retrieval 11 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.004% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.004% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £625 - -
25th Percentile £631 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £777 - -
90th Percentile £819 - -
UK median daily rate £681 £650 £483
% change year-on-year +4.81% +34.72% -25.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.02 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.02 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Information Retrieval is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,259 46,317 65,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.62% 90.21% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,236 32,416 46,341
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £648
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,219 1,624 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.78 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £71.90 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +44.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Information Retrieval as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Retrieval in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Retrieval in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Retrieval in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Retrieval in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Retrieval in England

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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 Retrieval within the England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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 - 9 £681 - 4
North West - 1 £650 -
South West - 1 £850 -
North of England - 1 £650 -
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UK

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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:

Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Speaking
2 1 (9.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Lucene
2 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Analytics
1 6 (54.55%) Capacity Planning
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
1 6 (54.55%) Open Source
1 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
1 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
1 6 (54.55%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Product Management
4 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.09%) Document Management
4 1 (9.09%) Logistics
4 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) iManage
2 1 (9.09%) Intapp