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 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 90 73
Rank change year-on-year -28 -17 -3
Contract jobs citing Management Information System 116 80 130
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.74% 2.29% 2.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.81% 7.19% 8.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 60
10th Percentile £298 £346 £173
25th Percentile £450 £401 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -2.77%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £665
90th Percentile £700 £719 £753
England median daily rate £500 £520 £520
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 17 17
10th Percentile £15.88 £15.13 -
25th Percentile £19.63 £16.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.00 £53.50 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +25.23% +191.55% -70.40%
75th Percentile £85.40 £87.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £87.16 £88.87 £90.95
England median hourly rate £24.16 £33.00 £25.14
% change year-on-year -26.79% +31.28% -58.10%

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 1,995 1,113 1,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.87% 31.80% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 684 860
10th Percentile £275 £206 £213
25th Percentile £412 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £715
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 100 145
10th Percentile £16.33 £15.13 £11.99
25th Percentile £26.13 £16.95 £20.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +66.41% -42.37% +14.70%
75th Percentile £84.50 £60.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £75.16
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.78 £47.50
% change year-on-year +38.35% -33.11% +11.76%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -49 57 £575 +21.05% 61
Berkshire -44 29 £575 +9.52% 27
Hampshire -20 27 £525 -4.55% 57
Oxfordshire -5 22 £750 +11.11% 19
Surrey -17 11 £475 -9.52% 27
Kent +6 7 £278 -52.56% 22
Buckinghamshire -40 6 £532 +49.15% 15
Middlesex - 6 - - 3
West Sussex -22 5 £700 +7.69% 16
Home Counties - 1 £500 -
East Sussex - 1 - - 12
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 9 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.72%) Houdini
3 2 (1.72%) NUKE
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Maximo
2 4 (3.45%) NEC Housing
3 2 (1.72%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (1.72%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.86%) iTrent
4 1 (0.86%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.52%) Azure
2 17 (14.66%) Entra ID
3 12 (10.34%) AWS
4 10 (8.62%) SaaS
5 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.72%) GCP
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.86%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.86%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.93%) DNS
2 10 (8.62%) Network Security
3 9 (7.76%) SSH
4 8 (6.90%) DHCP
4 8 (6.90%) HTTP
5 7 (6.03%) Firewall
5 7 (6.03%) TCP/IP
6 6 (5.17%) VPN
7 2 (1.72%) Broadband
7 2 (1.72%) SSL
8 1 (0.86%) BGP
8 1 (0.86%) Internet
8 1 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.86%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.86%) Modbus
8 1 (0.86%) MPLS
8 1 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.86%) SAN
8 1 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.76%) Power BI
3 5 (4.31%) Metadata
4 3 (2.59%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (2.59%) GIS
5 2 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.72%) OLAP
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.86%) EDMS
6 1 (0.86%) MySQL
6 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Rational DOORS
General
1 40 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (17.24%) Finance
4 19 (16.38%) Public Sector
5 16 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (10.34%) Aerospace
7 10 (8.62%) Military
8 6 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (4.31%) Local Government
10 4 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.59%) Marketing
12 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.72%) Legal
12 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.72%) Police
12 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.86%) Electronics
13 1 (0.86%) Publishing
13 1 (0.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (10.34%) Analyst
2 10 (8.62%) Lead
3 9 (7.76%) Senior
4 6 (5.17%) Architect
4 6 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (5.17%) IT Manager
4 6 (5.17%) Security Engineer
4 6 (5.17%) Support Engineer
5 5 (4.31%) Consultant
5 5 (4.31%) Data Analyst
5 5 (4.31%) Project Manager
5 5 (4.31%) Security Consultant
5 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (3.45%) Product Delivery Manager
6 4 (3.45%) Product Manager
6 4 (3.45%) Senior Architect
6 4 (3.45%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) LDAP
1 6 (5.17%) OAuth
1 6 (5.17%) OpenID
1 6 (5.17%) SailPoint
1 6 (5.17%) SAML
2 4 (3.45%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.45%) OAuth2
2 4 (3.45%) Web Services
3 2 (1.72%) Middleware
3 2 (1.72%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.03%) Operational Technology
3 6 (5.17%) BYOD
3 6 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.45%) Taxonomies
5 3 (2.59%) ARM Cortex
5 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) CCTV
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.72%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) SCADA
6 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.72%) Social Media
7 1 (0.86%) FPGA
7 1 (0.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.28%) Windows
2 20 (17.24%) Linux
2 20 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 11 (9.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.31%) Cybersecurity
2 33 (28.45%) Agile
3 32 (27.59%) Computer Science
4 28 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (22.41%) Information Security
6 25 (21.55%) Change Control
7 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.97%) ITIL
9 20 (17.24%) ITSM
10 19 (16.38%) Migration
10 19 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (15.52%) Risk Management
12 16 (13.79%) Information Governance
12 16 (13.79%) Project Management
12 16 (13.79%) Security Operations
13 15 (12.93%) Roadmaps
13 15 (12.93%) SIEM
14 14 (12.07%) Asset Management
14 14 (12.07%) Runbook
14 14 (12.07%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.55%) PowerShell
2 17 (14.66%) Python
3 11 (9.48%) SQL
4 5 (4.31%) Bash
5 4 (3.45%) Bicep
6 1 (0.86%) Korn
Qualifications
1 57 (49.14%) Degree
2 51 (43.97%) Security Cleared
3 23 (19.83%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.79%) DV Cleared
5 12 (10.34%) CISSP
6 9 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (6.90%) CISM
8 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (4.31%) Azure Certification
10 5 (4.31%) CESG Certified Professional
11 4 (3.45%) PMP
12 3 (2.59%) AWS Certification
12 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
12 3 (2.59%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.72%) ACCA
13 2 (1.72%) CIMA
13 2 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (1.72%) CSPO
13 2 (1.72%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 22 (18.97%) NIST
2 19 (16.38%) Data Quality
3 10 (8.62%) GDPR
3 10 (8.62%) QA
4 6 (5.17%) PCI DSS
4 6 (5.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (2.59%) NCSC
6 3 (2.59%) PMO
7 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.86%) DICOM
8 1 (0.86%) HL7
8 1 (0.86%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.86%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 26 (22.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.17%) vCloud
2 6 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (5.17%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) vSphere
5 1 (0.86%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.86%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.86%) Docker
5 1 (0.86%) Firmware
5 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.17%) SCOM
1 6 (5.17%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.45%) Ansible
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.45%) SCCM
2 4 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.45%) Terraform
3 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.86%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Oracle
3 10 (8.62%) VMware
4 9 (7.76%) BeyondTrust
4 9 (7.76%) CyberArk
5 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.45%) Adobe
6 4 (3.45%) NEC
6 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.59%) ESRI
7 3 (2.59%) IBM
7 3 (2.59%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.72%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.72%) IFS
8 2 (1.72%) Okta
8 2 (1.72%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) SAP