Knowledge Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Knowledge Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Knowledge Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 80 95
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Management 3 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 0.65% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.72% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £164 - £385
25th Percentile £167 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £181 £301 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.68% -39.90% +20.48%
75th Percentile £192 £301 £534
90th Percentile £193 - £541
North West median daily rate £505 £487 £523
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.79% +25.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Knowledge 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,046 967 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.79% 89.70% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 581 978
10th Percentile £303 £294 £296
25th Percentile £373 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £585 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 39 48
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.98 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.52 £22.75 £17.37
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +31.31% -33.65%
75th Percentile £53.94 £44.38 £57.19
90th Percentile £64.13 £65.00 £76.10
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +1.53% -9.83% +37.54%

Knowledge Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Knowledge Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Knowledge Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Knowledge Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Knowledge Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Knowledge Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Management within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Sale - 1 £188 -
Knowledge Management
North West

Knowledge Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Looker
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Author
1 1 (33.33%) Content Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Author
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Content Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Content Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility