Records Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Records Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Records Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 102 134
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 +44
Contract jobs citing Records Management 2 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.087% 0.76% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.92% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £464 £420 £428
25th Percentile £470 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -6.86% +56.92%
75th Percentile £495 £497 £538
90th Percentile £498 £549 £540
England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Records 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 2,037 1,967 2,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.68% 83.52% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 1,056 1,722
10th Percentile £250 £294 £274
25th Percentile £363 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 110 169
10th Percentile £14.13 £18.95 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £44.44 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £65.05 £71.71 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Records Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Records Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Records Management job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Records Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Records Management

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Records Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Records Management

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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 Records Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Cheshire - 2 £485 - 4
Records Management
England

Records Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft