Freedom of Information Contracts in the UK excluding London

Freedom of Information (FOI)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 438 471
Rank change year-on-year +73 +33 -84
Contract jobs citing Freedom of Information 21 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.24% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 18
10th Percentile £196 £230 £185
25th Percentile £205 £316 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £650 £454
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +43.25% +39.62%
75th Percentile £438 - £488
90th Percentile - - £511
UK median daily rate £425 £624 £450
% change year-on-year -31.86% +38.61% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile - £19.06 £19.20
25th Percentile - £19.60 £23.25
Median hourly rate £12.25 £21.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% -19.23% +45.25%
75th Percentile - £33.02 £31.01
90th Percentile £13.13 £39.92 £39.12
UK median hourly rate £12.25 £21.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% -19.23% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Freedom of Information is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,947 7,647 9,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.18% 32.53% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,557 5,163 6,728
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £614 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 435 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%

Freedom of Information
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Freedom of Information as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Freedom of Information in the UK excluding London

Freedom of Information
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Freedom of Information in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Freedom of Information in the UK excluding London

Freedom of Information
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Freedom of Information in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Freedom of Information in the UK excluding London

Freedom of Information
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Freedom of Information in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Freedom of Information in the UK excluding London

Freedom of Information
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Freedom of Information within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Scotland +49 6 £210 -35.38% 1
Northern Ireland - 6 - -
Midlands +28 3 £425 -34.62% 37
North of England +27 3 £305 - 10
West Midlands +20 3 £425 -34.62% 4
South East +21 2 - - 36
Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
North West +23 1 £305 - 5
South West - 1 £158 - 4
Freedom of Information
UK

Freedom of Information
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (19.05%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 11 (52.38%) Legal
2 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
4 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Finance
6 2 (9.52%) Law
7 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Information Officer
2 6 (28.57%) Information Governance Officer
3 3 (14.29%) Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Data Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Integration Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Compliance Officer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Officer
5 1 (4.76%) EPR Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Support
5 1 (4.76%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) NHS
2 4 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) CMDB
3 2 (9.52%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Data Protection
2 7 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 6 (28.57%) Email Management
3 6 (28.57%) Information Governance
3 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 4 (19.05%) PRINCE2
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Case Management
5 3 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (14.29%) Data Enrichment
5 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) Information Management
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL
5 3 (14.29%) Master Data Management
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) PRINCE
6 2 (9.52%) Resource Management
6 2 (9.52%) Supplier Management
7 1 (4.76%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) HNC
1 6 (28.57%) NVQ Level 3
2 5 (23.81%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CCNA
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) MCSE
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) COBIT
3 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) VMware