Memory Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Memory Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Memory Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 162 198
Rank change year-on-year -4 +36 +53
Contract jobs citing Memory Management 15 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.38% 0.15% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.17% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £316 - £417
25th Percentile £345 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% - +1.60%
75th Percentile £429 £491 £513
90th Percentile £564 £494 -
England median daily rate £440 £550 £638
% change year-on-year -20.00% -13.73% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Memory 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 3,516 3,438 4,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.06% 83.94% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,273 1,991 2,996
10th Percentile £268 £300 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 179 206
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.55 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.38 £17.81
Median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.50% +27.27% +37.05%
75th Percentile £35.75 £51.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.03 £70.00 £63.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Memory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Memory Management in the North of England

Memory Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Memory Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Memory Management

Memory Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Memory Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Memory Management in the North of England

Memory Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Memory Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Memory Management

Memory 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 Memory Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Yorkshire -4 11 £358 - 2
North West -12 4 £413 -13.16% 2
Memory Management
England

Memory 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:

Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (26.67%) Azure AI
2 4 (26.67%) Vertex AI
3 3 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Pinecone
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) Gradle
3 4 (26.67%) Android Studio
4 3 (20.00%) CocoaPods
4 3 (20.00%) Xcode
5 2 (13.33%) JUnit
5 2 (13.33%) Log4j
5 2 (13.33%) Maven
5 2 (13.33%) Mockito
5 2 (13.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Android Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) iOS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Junior
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) RESTful
2 7 (46.67%) JSON
3 4 (26.67%) CrewAI
3 4 (26.67%) LangChain
4 2 (13.33%) Faiss
4 2 (13.33%) Gradio
4 2 (13.33%) Kafka
4 2 (13.33%) LangGraph
4 2 (13.33%) PowerMock
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) Streamlit
4 2 (13.33%) Web Services
5 1 (6.67%) Cocoa
5 1 (6.67%) Cocoa Touch
5 1 (6.67%) React
5 1 (6.67%) Spring WebFlux
5 1 (6.67%) SwiftUI
5 1 (6.67%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (26.67%) Autonomous Agent
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (20.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 4 (26.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Application Security
3 7 (46.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 7 (46.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (40.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (26.67%) Android Development
5 4 (26.67%) API Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Conversational UI
5 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (26.67%) iOS Development
5 4 (26.67%) LLM
5 4 (26.67%) Multi-Agent System
5 4 (26.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 4 (26.67%) Semantic Search
5 4 (26.67%) Use Case
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) Swift
3 4 (26.67%) Kotlin
3 4 (26.67%) Objective-C
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google