Knowledge Management Contract Job Trends in the South West

Knowledge Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Knowledge Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Management 5 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.24% - 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.34%
75th Percentile £578 - -
90th Percentile £579 - -
England median daily rate £465 £474 £500
% change year-on-year -1.80% -5.30% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Knowledge 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 1,834 2,073 2,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.86% 84.23% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,221 1,891
10th Percentile £223 £300 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £723
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 174 280
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.88 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £37.19 £46.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -5.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

Knowledge Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Knowledge Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Knowledge Management
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Knowledge Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Management in the South West over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Management in the South West

Knowledge Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Knowledge Management
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 Knowledge Management within the South West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Wiltshire - 3 £574 - 4
Gloucestershire - 1 £350 -
Somerset - 1 - -
Knowledge Management
England

Knowledge 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) Webhook
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow