Information Management Contracts in the North West

Information Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 114 147
Rank change year-on-year -9 +33 +20
Contract jobs citing Information Management 2 21 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.77% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.89% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 4
10th Percentile - £313 £368
25th Percentile - £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +24.32%
75th Percentile - £556 £637
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 1 1
Median hourly rate - £31.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.27% -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,349 2,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.30% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,497 2,042
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £662 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 246 140
10th Percentile £16.02 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.91
Median hourly rate £32.25 £21.56 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.62% -39.28% +71.13%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £49.43
90th Percentile £84.70 £57.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Information Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Management in the North West

Information Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Information Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Management in the North West

Information Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cumbria +2 2 - -
Information Management
England

Information Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk