Document Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Document Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Document Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 121 143
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing Document Management 5 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.21% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £293 - £175
25th Percentile £356 £213 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £225 £368
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -38.78% -26.50%
75th Percentile £531 £238 £443
90th Percentile £558 - £680
England median daily rate £500 £500 £394
% change year-on-year - +26.98% -26.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £26.00
England median hourly rate £20.00 £15.26 £18.39
% change year-on-year +31.06% -17.01% -38.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Document 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,949 1,835 2,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.65% 86.88% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,124 1,725
10th Percentile £263 £280 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £733 £718
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 126 270
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.16 £20.48
25th Percentile £19.70 £48.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £32.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Document Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Document Management job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Document Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Document Management

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Document Management in the South West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Document Management in the South West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Document Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Document Management

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Document Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Wiltshire - 2 £550 - 1
Bristol -3 1 £250 +11.11% 4
Dorset - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £475 -
Document Management
England

Document Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (40.00%) Documentum
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NEC Housing
1 1 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Document Controller
2 1 (20.00%) Security Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Case Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Scheduling
3 1 (20.00%) Business Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) OpenText
2 1 (20.00%) Autodesk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) NEC