Freedom of Information Act Contract Job Trends in London

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information Act in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Freedom of Information Act over the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 359 369
Rank change year-on-year -33 +10 +131
Contract jobs citing Freedom of Information Act 2 2 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.013% 0.015% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.035% 0.042% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 21
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £563 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £525
75th Percentile £588 - £588
90th Percentile - - £686
England median daily rate £490 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £11.95
England median hourly rate £44.81 £20.19 £11.95
% change year-on-year +121.94% +68.95% -73.16%

All Generic Skills
London

Freedom of Information Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,646 4,707 6,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.82% 34.31% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,674 2,961 4,316
10th Percentile £344 £325 £300
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £810
England median daily rate £510 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -7.27% +0.92% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 58 176
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.95 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.21 £25.48 £19.34
Median hourly rate £27.61 £39.02 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -29.25% +35.13% -12.26%
75th Percentile £51.84 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.75 £81.49 £65.88
England median hourly rate £30.75 £37.00 £32.41
% change year-on-year -16.89% +14.16% +44.14%

Freedom of Information Act
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Freedom of Information Act relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Freedom of Information Act job vacancy trend in London

Freedom of Information Act
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Freedom of Information Act.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Freedom of Information Act

Freedom of Information Act
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Freedom of Information Act.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Freedom of Information Act

Freedom of Information Act
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Freedom of Information Act within the London region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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
Central London -4 1 - -
Freedom of Information Act
England

Freedom of Information Act
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Redshift Spectrum
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Information Governance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Records Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft