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 14 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 91 77
Rank change year-on-year -35 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing Management Information System 84 68 141
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.49% 2.27% 2.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.99% 6.67% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 33 68
10th Percentile £171 £226 £173
25th Percentile £335 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £528 £515
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +2.43% -6.36%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £650
90th Percentile £622 £798 £741
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 23
10th Percentile £19.52 £14.12 -
25th Percentile £20.79 £23.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £27.16 £61.50 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year -55.83% +235.12% -70.40%
75th Percentile £81.24 £80.53 £41.46
90th Percentile £85.40 £88.69 £67.00
England median hourly rate £28.55 £50.00 £22.28
% change year-on-year -42.90% +124.47% +109.55%

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 1,685 1,020 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.85% 34.06% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 638 934
10th Percentile £257 £207 £205
25th Percentile £400 £372 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £608
90th Percentile £700 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.31% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 62 157
10th Percentile £15.72 £16.95 £11.76
25th Percentile £24.46 £23.67 £18.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.34% -5.52% -10.53%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.37 £61.30
90th Percentile - £84.79 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +29.89% +27.27% +22.22%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -38 54 £316 -42.76% 26
Berkshire -31 30 £390 -36.59% 13
Hampshire -25 19 £563 +6.64% 17
Buckinghamshire -17 15 £173 -44.86% 5
Oxfordshire -13 9 - - 9
Surrey -7 6 £529 +17.44% 9
West Sussex -13 2 £600 -7.69% 4
Kent -8 1 £463 -20.94% 8
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 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Adobe Campaign
1 2 (2.38%) Eloqua
1 2 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.19%) iTrent
2 1 (1.19%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.52%) AWS
2 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.38%) Azure
6 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Network Security
2 6 (7.14%) HTTP
3 4 (4.76%) Firewall
3 4 (4.76%) SSH
4 3 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.38%) BGP
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.38%) DNS
5 2 (2.38%) MPLS
5 2 (2.38%) Multicast
5 2 (2.38%) OSPF
5 2 (2.38%) SAN
5 2 (2.38%) VLAN
5 2 (2.38%) VPN
5 2 (2.38%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.19%) DHCP
6 1 (1.19%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.38%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.38%) Metadata
3 2 (2.38%) OLAP
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.19%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.19%) MySQL
4 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 27 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.71%) Aerospace
5 8 (9.52%) Retail
6 7 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.76%) Legal
9 2 (2.38%) Aviation
9 2 (2.38%) Marketing
9 2 (2.38%) Military
9 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.19%) Law
10 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (36.90%) Analyst
2 19 (22.62%) Support Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Compliance Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Desktop Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Desktop Support
3 8 (9.52%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 8 (9.52%) Risk Analyst
4 7 (8.33%) Risk Support Analyst
4 7 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Consultant
6 5 (5.95%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.95%) Principal Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Principal Security Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Security Consultant
6 5 (5.95%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) IT Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) IT Support
7 4 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (4.76%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Onboarding
2 8 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.14%) BYOD
4 4 (4.76%) Taxonomies
5 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.19%) CESG
7 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.19%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.19%) HP Storage
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.19%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Windows
2 13 (15.48%) Linux
3 6 (7.14%) Unix
3 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (30.95%) Risk Management
2 24 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (28.57%) Information Security
3 18 (21.43%) Computer Science
3 18 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 17 (20.24%) Decision-Making
5 16 (19.05%) Agile
5 16 (19.05%) ITSM
6 15 (17.86%) Change Management
6 15 (17.86%) Risk Analysis
7 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (15.48%) SIEM
8 12 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 12 (14.29%) ITIL
8 12 (14.29%) Security Operations
9 11 (13.10%) Service Management
10 10 (11.90%) Information Governance
11 9 (10.71%) Change Control
11 9 (10.71%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.10%) Python
2 10 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.76%) SQL
4 3 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.19%) Korn
5 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (51.19%) Security Cleared
2 38 (45.24%) Degree
3 25 (29.76%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.71%) CISSP
5 6 (7.14%) CISM
6 4 (4.76%) A+ Certification
6 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.76%) CESG Certified Professional
6 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.38%) BC Cleared
8 2 (2.38%) CCIE
8 2 (2.38%) CCNP
8 2 (2.38%) CFCE
8 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.38%) GCFA
8 2 (2.38%) GCIA
8 2 (2.38%) GCIH
8 2 (2.38%) GIAC
8 2 (2.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (17.86%) NIST
2 11 (13.10%) GDPR
3 9 (10.71%) SLA
4 8 (9.52%) Data Quality
4 8 (9.52%) NCSC
5 6 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 6 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (4.76%) QA
7 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
8 2 (2.38%) JSP 440
8 2 (2.38%) RMADS
9 1 (1.19%) DICOM
9 1 (1.19%) EU AI Act
9 1 (1.19%) GRC
9 1 (1.19%) HL7
9 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 1 (1.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Firmware
2 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 2 (2.38%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (2.38%) Iperf
2 2 (2.38%) Nessus
2 2 (2.38%) Nmap
3 1 (1.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (1.19%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) Oracle
2 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.14%) BeyondTrust
4 6 (7.14%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.57%) IBM
6 3 (3.57%) LogRhythm
6 3 (3.57%) Splunk
7 2 (2.38%) Adobe
7 2 (2.38%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.38%) Cisco
7 2 (2.38%) Databricks
7 2 (2.38%) Dell
7 2 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.38%) Tenable
7 2 (2.38%) Tufin