Knowledge Management Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Knowledge Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Knowledge Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 118 135
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +70
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Management 11 14 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.52% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.63% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £467 £216 £150
25th Percentile £492 £327 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £300
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% +75.00% -45.75%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £575
90th Percentile £619 - £605
England median daily rate £450 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.83% -1.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,292 2,216 2,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.41% 81.86% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 1,439 1,761
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 73 95
10th Percentile £12.81 £12.75 £13.38
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £21.72 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -23.64% +52.78%
75th Percentile £27.04 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.20 £54.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Knowledge Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Knowledge Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Management in the Midlands

Knowledge Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
East Midlands -5 6 £481 - 8
West Midlands -13 5 £588 +11.90% 12
Knowledge Management
England

Knowledge Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Head of IT
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Support
2 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (9.09%) Operations Manager
2 1 (9.09%) PMO Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Product Operations Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
2 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Android
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (36.36%) Service Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Management
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
2 3 (27.27%) Line Management
2 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Service Management
2 3 (27.27%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) PLM
3 2 (18.18%) Product Operations
3 2 (18.18%) Release Management
3 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) P3O
2 1 (9.09%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Samsung
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft