Memory Management Contract Job Trends in the South East

Memory Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Memory Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 179 200
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 -
Contract jobs citing Memory Management 9 1 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.023% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.027% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 12
10th Percentile £446 - £515
25th Percentile £463 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +5.49% -
75th Percentile £488 - £600
90th Percentile - - £628
England median daily rate £450 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £49.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +35.35% -23.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Memory 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,167 3,651 4,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.04% 82.92% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,977 2,189 3,316
10th Percentile £216 £254 £248
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 205 255
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £23.79
Median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +9.11% +83.79%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.43 £66.13
90th Percentile £69.11 £77.99 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +42.26%

Memory Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Memory Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Memory Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Memory Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Memory Management
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 Memory Management within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
Surrey - 8 £475 - 1
Hampshire +10 1 £384 -36.00%
Memory Management
England

Memory Management
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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) NFC
1 8 (88.89%) PPP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Parquet
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Eclipse
1 8 (88.89%) Valgrind
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
2 1 (11.11%) Poetry
2 1 (11.11%) PyCharm
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) C++ Software Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Development Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Linux Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior
1 8 (88.89%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Development Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Software Development Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Software Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Software Development Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) JSON
1 8 (88.89%) REST
1 8 (88.89%) Web Services
1 8 (88.89%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Avro
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Cryptography
1 8 (88.89%) Front End Development
1 8 (88.89%) Multithreaded Programming
1 8 (88.89%) Multithreading
1 8 (88.89%) Software Engineering
1 8 (88.89%) User Experience
2 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Dependency Management
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (88.89%) C#
2 8 (88.89%) C++
2 8 (88.89%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Argo
1 1 (11.11%) Istio
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat