Management Information System Contract Job Trends in the South East

Management Information Systems
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Management Information System in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Management Information System over the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 86 74
Rank change year-on-year -21 -12 -11
Contract jobs citing Management Information System 135 77 122
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.04% 2.19% 2.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.88% 6.92% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 26 64
10th Percentile £291 £329 £181
25th Percentile £463 £396 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +27.14% -16.67%
75th Percentile £591 £669 £600
90th Percentile £700 £763 £690
England median daily rate £500 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -5.84% +1.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 15
10th Percentile £13.53 - £11.71
25th Percentile £15.48 £16.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £59.75 £40.44 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +47.77% -14.41% -23.80%
75th Percentile £77.50 £87.50 £67.07
90th Percentile £87.16 £88.87 £91.42
England median hourly rate £21.61 £33.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year -35.49% +37.32% -61.12%

All Generic Skills
South East

Management Information System falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,961 1,113 1,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.68% 31.71% 29.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 703 777
10th Percentile £284 £204 £239
25th Percentile £413 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -1.50% -
75th Percentile £615 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £674 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 94 100
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.13 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.29 £16.95 £27.69
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.73% -42.37% +4.27%
75th Percentile £71.00 £58.00 £70.61
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.16 £75.16
England median hourly rate £36.75 £30.93 £57.35
% change year-on-year +18.82% -46.07% +25.16%

Management Information System
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Management Information System relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Management Information System job vacancy trend in the South East

Management Information System
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Management Information System.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Management Information System

Management Information System
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Management Information System in the South East over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Management Information System in the South East

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Management Information System.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Management Information System

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Management Information System in the South East over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Management Information System in the South East

Management Information System
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Management Information System within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. 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
Thames Valley -32 61 £575 +24.32% 154
Berkshire -35 32 £575 - 83
Hampshire -9 31 £513 -8.89% 99
Surrey -2 21 £550 -2.22% 76
Oxfordshire -12 19 £850 +25.93% 34
Buckinghamshire -25 10 £526 +47.40% 40
Kent +4 8 £278 - 17
Middlesex - 6 - - 3
West Sussex -30 4 £700 -9.68% 29
East Sussex - 1 - - 28
Sussex - 1 - - 6
Home Counties - 1 £500 -
Management Information System
England

Management Information System
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (9.63%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.48%) Houdini
4 2 (1.48%) NUKE
4 2 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Maximo
2 4 (2.96%) NEC Housing
3 3 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.74%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.48%) Azure
2 14 (10.37%) Entra ID
3 13 (9.63%) AWS
4 12 (8.89%) SaaS
5 11 (8.15%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.19%) GCP
7 5 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.48%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.74%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.07%) DNS
2 9 (6.67%) DHCP
3 8 (5.93%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.19%) VPN
5 6 (4.44%) Firewall
5 6 (4.44%) SSH
6 5 (3.70%) Network Security
7 3 (2.22%) HTTP
8 2 (1.48%) Broadband
8 2 (1.48%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.48%) SSL
9 1 (0.74%) BGP
9 1 (0.74%) Internet
9 1 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.74%) Modbus
9 1 (0.74%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.41%) Metadata
1 10 (7.41%) Power BI
2 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (2.22%) GIS
4 2 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.74%) EDMS
5 1 (0.74%) Power Query
5 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.74%) JIRA
General
1 57 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 36 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (17.78%) Finance
4 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 17 (12.59%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (9.63%) Aerospace
6 13 (9.63%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (8.15%) Military
8 8 (5.93%) Local Government
9 7 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (4.44%) Marketing
11 4 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.96%) Legal
11 4 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.22%) Automotive
12 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.48%) Police
14 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 16 (11.85%) Analyst
2 13 (9.63%) Lead
3 12 (8.89%) Architect
3 12 (8.89%) Senior
4 10 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (6.67%) Administrator
5 9 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 7 (5.19%) Security Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (4.44%) Product Delivery Manager
7 6 (4.44%) Product Manager
7 6 (4.44%) Project Manager
7 6 (4.44%) Security Architect
8 5 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (3.70%) Data Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) Security Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.96%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 4 (2.96%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.19%) SailPoint
2 6 (4.44%) LDAP
2 6 (4.44%) OAuth
2 6 (4.44%) OpenID
2 6 (4.44%) SAML
3 5 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.70%) Terraform
4 4 (2.96%) OAuth2
4 4 (2.96%) Web Services
5 2 (1.48%) Middleware
5 2 (1.48%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.93%) Operational Technology
3 6 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (3.70%) Mobile Payment
4 5 (3.70%) Smartcard
5 4 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.96%) Social Media
6 3 (2.22%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (2.22%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.48%) CCTV
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.48%) Motion Graphics
7 2 (1.48%) SCADA
7 2 (1.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.44%) Windows
2 25 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 23 (17.04%) Linux
4 8 (5.93%) Unix
5 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.89%) Computer Science
2 35 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (23.70%) Agile
5 31 (22.96%) ITIL
6 30 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (21.48%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (18.52%) Change Control
9 23 (17.04%) Information Security
10 22 (16.30%) PRINCE2
11 21 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (14.81%) Roadmaps
12 20 (14.81%) Service Management
13 19 (14.07%) Project Management
13 19 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (12.59%) Analytics
14 17 (12.59%) Change Management
14 17 (12.59%) ITSM
15 16 (11.85%) Data Protection
15 16 (11.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.78%) PowerShell
2 14 (10.37%) Python
2 14 (10.37%) SQL
3 5 (3.70%) Bash
3 5 (3.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 59 (43.70%) Degree
2 56 (41.48%) Security Cleared
3 32 (23.70%) SC Cleared
4 22 (16.30%) DV Cleared
5 14 (10.37%) CISSP
6 12 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (8.15%) CISM
8 8 (5.93%) Azure Certification
8 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (3.70%) CISA
11 5 (3.70%) IISP
11 5 (3.70%) PMI Certification
11 5 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 4 (2.96%) CCSP
12 4 (2.96%) CLAS
12 4 (2.96%) CREST Certified
12 4 (2.96%) PMP
12 4 (2.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (14.81%) NIST
3 16 (11.85%) Data Quality
4 11 (8.15%) QA
5 10 (7.41%) GDPR
6 9 (6.67%) ISO 9001
7 6 (4.44%) GRC
7 6 (4.44%) PCI DSS
8 5 (3.70%) ISO 31000
8 5 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 5 (3.70%) PMO
9 4 (2.96%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
11 2 (1.48%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.74%) HL7
12 1 (0.74%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.74%) ISO 19650
12 1 (0.74%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (17.78%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.67%) vCloud
2 9 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.96%) ISA Server
3 4 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.74%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) SCOM
1 9 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 5 (3.70%) Ansible
3 4 (2.96%) CASB
3 4 (2.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.96%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.22%) SCCM
5 2 (1.48%) Istio
Vendors
1 38 (28.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.63%) VMware
3 11 (8.15%) Oracle
4 7 (5.19%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (5.19%) CyberArk
4 7 (5.19%) Google
5 6 (4.44%) BeyondTrust
5 6 (4.44%) Qualys
5 6 (4.44%) SAP
6 5 (3.70%) Cisco
7 4 (2.96%) Centrify
7 4 (2.96%) F5
7 4 (2.96%) NEC
7 4 (2.96%) Splunk
7 4 (2.96%) Tripwire
8 3 (2.22%) ESRI
8 3 (2.22%) LogRhythm
8 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.22%) Workday
9 2 (1.48%) Red Hat