Information Management Contracts in the North of England

Information Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Information Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 167 204
Rank change year-on-year +4 +37 +13
Contract jobs citing Information Management 3 22 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.091% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.54% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 9
10th Percentile - £313 £290
25th Percentile - £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £556 £588
90th Percentile - £575 £637
England median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £22.10 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.52% -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £31.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% -44.74% +238.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Information 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Information Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Information Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Management in the North of England

Information Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Information Management in the North of England

Information Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Information Management in the North of England

Information Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West -5 2 - - 27
North East - 1 £550 -
Information Management
England

Information Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) Unified Communications
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Network Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5