Information Management Contracts in Scotland

Information Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 121 145
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 0
Contract jobs citing Information Management 6 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.36% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.41% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 17
10th Percentile £185 £277 £275
25th Percentile £235 £334 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +46.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £403 £663 £423
90th Percentile £521 £700 £459
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Information Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Information Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Information Management in Scotland

Information Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Management in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Information Management in Scotland

Information Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Management in Scotland

Information Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Management in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Information Management in Scotland

Information Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +4 4 £325 -29.73% 5
Edinburgh +3 1 £152 -51.49% 4
Information Management
UK

Information Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) EDRMS
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Document Controller
2 1 (16.67%) Information Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IT Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Information Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Records Management
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Matrix Management
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle