Knowledge Transfer Contracts in England

Knowledge Transfer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 289 283
Rank change year-on-year +39 -6 +109
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 249 273 455
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.75% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.87% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 159 319
10th Percentile £363 £350 £340
25th Percentile £456 £459 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -1.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £728 £746 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £530
% change year-on-year -3.49% +2.64% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £17.89 - £12.92
25th Percentile £22.08 - £13.16
Median hourly rate £29.07 £14.41 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.73% -15.24% +7.12%
75th Percentile £34.29 - £18.50
90th Percentile £37.41 - £29.95
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £24.26 £17.00
% change year-on-year +56.67% +42.68% +7.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Knowledge Transfer 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Knowledge Transfer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Transfer in England

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in England.

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in England

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in England

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in England

Knowledge Transfer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in England

Knowledge Transfer
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 Knowledge Transfer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 +66 124 £575 -4.17% 180
North of England +18 42 £600 +20.00% 192
North West +19 29 £625 +13.64% 95
Midlands +24 22 £525 +13.51% 162
South East +44 20 £385 -29.23% 253
West Midlands +22 18 £538 +26.47% 95
South West +14 12 £475 - 105
Yorkshire +9 11 £500 +11.11% 76
East of England +14 7 £500 -16.67% 149
East Midlands +8 4 £393 -21.50% 56
North East 0 2 £550 - 21
Knowledge Transfer
UK

Knowledge Transfer
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 11 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.01%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.61%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.20%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle UPK
7 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (5.62%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (3.21%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (2.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (2.01%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (2.01%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.61%) Kondor
6 4 (1.61%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (1.20%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.80%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.80%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.80%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.80%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.80%) SAP PS
9 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.27%) Azure
2 23 (9.24%) AWS
3 15 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (5.22%) Entra ID
4 13 (5.22%) GCP
5 12 (4.82%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.02%) OCI
7 7 (2.81%) Serverless
8 5 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.01%) SaaS
9 4 (1.61%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.20%) IaaS
10 3 (1.20%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.20%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.04%) Firewall
2 7 (2.81%) WAN
3 6 (2.41%) LAN
4 4 (1.61%) Network Security
4 4 (1.61%) SSL
4 4 (1.61%) VPN
5 3 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.20%) DHCP
5 3 (1.20%) DNS
5 3 (1.20%) NGFW
5 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.80%) BGP
6 2 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.80%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.80%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.80%) SSH
7 1 (0.40%) 4G
7 1 (0.40%) LTE
7 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.21%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (2.01%) KDB
2 5 (2.01%) Kdb+
2 5 (2.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.61%) Power BI
3 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.20%) Siebel EIM
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.80%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.80%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (4.02%) JIRA
2 4 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.20%) Git
3 3 (1.20%) JUnit
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.20%) Postman
4 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.80%) ERwin
4 2 (0.80%) GitLab
4 2 (0.80%) JMeter
4 2 (0.80%) MagicDraw
4 2 (0.80%) Mockito
4 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
4 2 (0.80%) Selenium
4 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.80%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.80%) TestNG
5 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 108 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.50%) Finance
3 54 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.23%) Banking
6 14 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.42%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.61%) Retail
9 8 (3.21%) Marketing
10 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.01%) Legal
11 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.20%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Local Government
12 3 (1.20%) Military
12 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (18.47%) Consultant
2 33 (13.25%) Developer
3 23 (9.24%) Analyst
3 23 (9.24%) Architect
3 23 (9.24%) Lead
4 12 (4.82%) Senior
5 8 (3.21%) Business Analyst
5 8 (3.21%) Migration Engineer
5 8 (3.21%) Security Engineer
5 8 (3.21%) Transition Manager
6 7 (2.81%) SAP Consultant
6 7 (2.81%) Service Manager
7 6 (2.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 6 (2.41%) Oracle Consultant
7 6 (2.41%) Oracle Developer
7 6 (2.41%) Service Transition Manager
8 5 (2.01%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (2.01%) Data Engineer
8 5 (2.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.01%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (3.61%) SOAP
3 8 (3.21%) ARM Templates
3 8 (3.21%) REST
3 8 (3.21%) Web Services
4 5 (2.01%) CSS
4 5 (2.01%) HTML
4 5 (2.01%) JMS
4 5 (2.01%) Node.js
5 4 (1.61%) OAuth
5 4 (1.61%) RESTful
5 4 (1.61%) XML
6 3 (1.20%) .NET
6 3 (1.20%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.20%) XSLT
7 2 (0.80%) Anaconda
7 2 (0.80%) Pandas
7 2 (0.80%) Playwright
7 2 (0.80%) PySpark
7 2 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.02%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.61%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.61%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.01%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.61%) Derivative
7 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.20%) Equities
7 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.04%) Windows
2 18 (7.23%) Linux
3 15 (6.02%) Unix
4 8 (3.21%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.61%) Android
5 4 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.20%) Solaris
6 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.93%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (23.29%) Migration
3 41 (16.47%) Agile
4 29 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (11.24%) Analytics
5 28 (11.24%) Project Management
6 26 (10.44%) User Acceptance Testing
7 23 (9.24%) CI/CD
7 23 (9.24%) Roadmaps
8 22 (8.84%) DevOps
8 22 (8.84%) Validation
9 21 (8.43%) Change Management
9 21 (8.43%) ITIL
10 20 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (7.23%) Data Modelling
12 18 (7.23%) Use Case
13 17 (6.83%) Data Migration
13 17 (6.83%) Incident Response
14 16 (6.43%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.25%) SQL
2 32 (12.85%) Python
3 20 (8.03%) PL/SQL
4 17 (6.83%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.22%) Java
6 10 (4.02%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.20%) Bash
7 3 (1.20%) C#
8 2 (0.80%) ActionScript
8 2 (0.80%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (0.80%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (0.80%) R
8 2 (0.80%) Ruby
8 2 (0.80%) Scala
8 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 49 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.02%) Degree
4 9 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.21%) CISSP
6 7 (2.81%) PMP
7 6 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.01%) CISM
8 5 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.61%) CCNP
9 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.61%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.61%) VCAP
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.80%) CCNA
11 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.02%) QA
2 9 (3.61%) GDPR
3 7 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.41%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.41%) NIST
4 6 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.61%) Basel III
5 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.61%) MiFID
6 3 (1.20%) WCAG
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.40%) EMIR
8 1 (0.40%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.81%) Active Directory
1 7 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.01%) Docker
3 5 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.01%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.20%) vSphere
5 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (7.63%) Terraform
2 8 (3.21%) Ansible
2 8 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.20%) PowerCLI
4 3 (1.20%) vRealize
5 2 (0.80%) Avamar
5 2 (0.80%) Control-M
5 2 (0.80%) Kibana
5 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.80%) SCCM
5 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.40%) logstash
6 1 (0.40%) Nagios
6 1 (0.40%) QRadar
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.47%) Oracle
3 23 (9.24%) SAP
4 17 (6.83%) ServiceNow
5 12 (4.82%) VMware
6 9 (3.61%) Workday
7 8 (3.21%) Cisco
8 7 (2.81%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.81%) Splunk
9 5 (2.01%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.61%) Google
10 4 (1.61%) Sybase
11 3 (1.20%) IBM
11 3 (1.20%) Marketo
11 3 (1.20%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.20%) Siebel
12 2 (0.80%) Blue Prism
12 2 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (0.80%) Juniper
12 2 (0.80%) UiPath