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 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 85 71
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 -7
Contract jobs citing Management Information System 119 76 124
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.82% 2.20% 2.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.21% 6.95% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 27 64
10th Percentile £285 £329 £177
25th Percentile £463 £396 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +20.00% -14.80%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £641
90th Percentile £700 £760 £726
England median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 13 13
10th Percentile £14.68 - -
25th Percentile £16.33 £16.50 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.00 £40.44 £18.35
Median % change year-on-year +65.70% +120.35% -70.40%
75th Percentile £77.50 £87.50 £71.90
90th Percentile £87.16 £88.87 £91.90
England median hourly rate £22.35 £34.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -35.22% +51.65% -63.31%

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 1,915 1,093 1,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.28% 31.64% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 689 775
10th Percentile £275 £204 £221
25th Percentile £413 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £617
90th Percentile £700 £665 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 96 126
10th Percentile £13.04 £15.31 £12.08
25th Percentile £16.72 £16.95 £27.13
Median hourly rate £41.25 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -40.92% +4.87%
75th Percentile £73.75 £62.62 £69.14
90th Percentile £88.00 £72.25 £75.16
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.77 £53.25
% change year-on-year +16.72% -38.46% +16.14%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -41 55 £575 +26.03% 133
Berkshire -33 28 £575 +10.84% 73
Hampshire -15 26 £525 -4.55% 92
Oxfordshire -9 18 £750 +11.11% 27
Surrey -9 16 £513 -2.38% 59
Buckinghamshire -31 9 £526 +47.40% 35
Kent +6 8 £278 -52.56% 23
Middlesex - 6 - - 5
West Sussex -27 4 £700 -9.68% 18
East Sussex - 1 - - 16
Sussex - 1 - - 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 10 (8.40%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.84%) IIS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.68%) Houdini
4 2 (1.68%) NUKE
5 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Maximo
2 4 (3.36%) NEC Housing
3 3 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.84%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.49%) Azure
2 14 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 11 (9.24%) SaaS
4 10 (8.40%) AWS
4 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.36%) GCP
6 3 (2.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.68%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.97%) DNS
2 9 (7.56%) DHCP
3 8 (6.72%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.88%) Network Security
4 7 (5.88%) VPN
5 6 (5.04%) Firewall
5 6 (5.04%) SSH
6 5 (4.20%) HTTP
7 2 (1.68%) Broadband
7 2 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.68%) SSL
8 1 (0.84%) BGP
8 1 (0.84%) Internet
8 1 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.84%) Modbus
8 1 (0.84%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.56%) Power BI
2 8 (6.72%) Metadata
3 6 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.52%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (2.52%) GIS
5 2 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.84%) EDMS
6 1 (0.84%) Power Query
6 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.84%) JIRA
1 1 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
General
1 50 (42.02%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.73%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.97%) Finance
4 18 (15.13%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.92%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (10.08%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (8.40%) Aerospace
7 10 (8.40%) Military
8 7 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (5.04%) Local Government
10 4 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.52%) Marketing
11 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.68%) Legal
12 2 (1.68%) Police
13 1 (0.84%) Electronics
13 1 (0.84%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.84%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 12 (10.08%) Analyst
2 11 (9.24%) Lead
3 10 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (7.56%) Senior
4 9 (7.56%) Support Engineer
5 8 (6.72%) Architect
6 6 (5.04%) Administrator
6 6 (5.04%) Consultant
6 6 (5.04%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.20%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Product Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Product Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.36%) IAM Specialist
8 4 (3.36%) Senior Architect
8 4 (3.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) SailPoint
2 6 (5.04%) LDAP
2 6 (5.04%) OAuth
2 6 (5.04%) OpenID
2 6 (5.04%) SAML
3 5 (4.20%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.20%) Terraform
4 4 (3.36%) OAuth2
4 4 (3.36%) Web Services
5 2 (1.68%) Middleware
5 2 (1.68%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.72%) Operational Technology
3 6 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.36%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.52%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (2.52%) BYOD
6 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Learning Management System
6 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) CCTV
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.68%) Motion Graphics
7 2 (1.68%) SCADA
7 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Social Media
7 2 (1.68%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.37%) Windows
2 22 (18.49%) Windows Server
3 18 (15.13%) Linux
4 8 (6.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) Computer Science
2 32 (26.89%) Agile
2 32 (26.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (22.69%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (21.01%) ITIL
6 23 (19.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (18.49%) Change Control
7 22 (18.49%) Information Security
8 18 (15.13%) Project Management
9 17 (14.29%) Migration
9 17 (14.29%) Service Management
9 17 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (13.45%) Analytics
10 16 (13.45%) ITSM
10 16 (13.45%) PRINCE2
10 16 (13.45%) Roadmaps
10 16 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (11.76%) Change Management
11 14 (11.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.01%) PowerShell
2 14 (11.76%) Python
2 14 (11.76%) SQL
3 5 (4.20%) Bash
3 5 (4.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 56 (47.06%) Degree
2 48 (40.34%) Security Cleared
3 24 (20.17%) SC Cleared
4 19 (15.97%) DV Cleared
5 12 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (7.56%) CISSP
7 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (5.04%) Azure Certification
8 6 (5.04%) CISM
9 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (3.36%) PMI Certification
9 4 (3.36%) PMP
10 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.52%) CESG Certified Professional
10 3 (2.52%) CIPD
10 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.52%) Master's Degree
10 3 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 16 (13.45%) NIST
3 10 (8.40%) QA
4 7 (5.88%) GDPR
5 4 (3.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.52%) ISO 9001
6 3 (2.52%) PMO
6 3 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.68%) NCSC
8 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.84%) GRC
8 1 (0.84%) HL7
8 1 (0.84%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.84%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.84%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 24 (20.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.56%) vCloud
2 9 (7.56%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (7.56%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.68%) vSphere
5 1 (0.84%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.84%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (7.56%) SCOM
1 9 (7.56%) vCenter Server
2 5 (4.20%) Ansible
3 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.36%) SCCM
3 4 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.68%) Istio
4 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.84%) CASB
Vendors
1 28 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.92%) VMware
3 11 (9.24%) Oracle
4 7 (5.88%) CyberArk
5 6 (5.04%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (4.20%) SAP
7 4 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (3.36%) Google
7 4 (3.36%) NEC
8 3 (2.52%) ESRI
8 3 (2.52%) LogRhythm
8 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.68%) Adobe
9 2 (1.68%) Cisco
9 2 (1.68%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.68%) Foundry
9 2 (1.68%) IFS
9 2 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.68%) Workday