Information Management Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Information Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Information Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 251 309
Rank change year-on-year -79 +58 +1
Contract jobs citing Information Management 61 96 94
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.79% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 60
10th Percentile £140 £317 £311
25th Percentile £329 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £562 £625 £600
90th Percentile £684 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.29% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 7
10th Percentile £35.63 £46.88 £16.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £47.50 £19.97
Median hourly rate £55.50 £58.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +65.71% -48.53%
75th Percentile £62.06 £66.00 £49.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.75 £56.40
UK median hourly rate £55.50 £58.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.31% +65.71% -46.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Information 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,291 12,110 17,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.17% 87.95% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,354 7,075 10,854
10th Percentile £222 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,670 680 1,286
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.16 £73.75 £76.77
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

Information Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Information Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Information Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Information Management
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Information Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Information Management

Information Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Information Management in the UK excluding London

Information Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Information Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Information Management

Information Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Management in the UK excluding London

Information Management
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 Information Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
East of England -20 20 £496 -17.33% 11
South East -22 14 £325 -35.00% 15
South West -27 12 £549 +3.00% 12
North of England -48 6 £550 +2.33% 15
Midlands -49 6 £575 +4.55% 10
West Midlands -32 5 £575 -8.00% 4
Scotland +3 3 - - 7
North West -29 3 - - 9
Yorkshire -40 2 - - 4
North East -7 1 £550 - 2
East Midlands -27 1 - - 6
Information Management
UK

Information Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (11.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.92%) CMS
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.64%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (1.64%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.64%) InDesign
4 1 (1.64%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (1.64%) AWS
3 1 (1.64%) Azure
3 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) HTTP
1 9 (14.75%) SSL
2 8 (13.11%) DNS
2 8 (13.11%) FTP
2 8 (13.11%) Network Security
2 8 (13.11%) SMTP
3 3 (4.92%) Firewall
3 3 (4.92%) Unified Communications
3 3 (4.92%) Wireless
4 2 (3.28%) Telepresence
5 1 (1.64%) IPsec
5 1 (1.64%) LAN
5 1 (1.64%) MPLS
5 1 (1.64%) SAN
5 1 (1.64%) VPN
5 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) Power BI
2 3 (4.92%) Metadata
3 2 (3.28%) MS Access
4 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.64%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
1 5 (8.20%) GitLab
1 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) Postman
3 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.11%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.56%) Military
7 3 (4.92%) Finance
7 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Police
8 2 (3.28%) Legal
9 1 (1.64%) Law
9 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Analyst
2 10 (16.39%) SOC Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Senior
3 6 (9.84%) Support Officer
4 5 (8.20%) Administrator
4 5 (8.20%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (8.20%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.20%) Technical Support
4 5 (8.20%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (6.56%) Information Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Knowledge Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 4 (6.56%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Applications Support
6 3 (4.92%) Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) LDAP
2 6 (9.84%) Middleware
3 1 (1.64%) JSON
3 1 (1.64%) REST
3 1 (1.64%) SOAP
3 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (50.82%) Management Information System
2 10 (16.39%) CSOC
2 10 (16.39%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (16.39%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (13.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (13.11%) Cyberattack
4 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.20%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.92%) LIMS
6 3 (4.92%) NHS
6 3 (4.92%) Taxonomies
7 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.28%) FPGA
7 2 (3.28%) Life Science
7 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.28%) Verilog
7 2 (3.28%) VHDL
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Windows
2 6 (9.84%) Linux
3 5 (8.20%) CentOS
3 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.03%) Customer Service
1 11 (18.03%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (18.03%) Security Operations
1 11 (18.03%) Threat Detection
2 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (16.39%) Information Security
2 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (16.39%) Project Management
2 10 (16.39%) Records Management
3 9 (14.75%) Agile
3 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
3 9 (14.75%) Information Architecture
3 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (13.11%) Analytics
4 8 (13.11%) Machine Learning
4 8 (13.11%) Network Packet Capture
4 8 (13.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (13.11%) Runbook
4 8 (13.11%) SIEM
4 8 (13.11%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
1 8 (13.11%) Python
2 5 (8.20%) MATLAB
2 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 21 (34.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.84%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Data Quality
1 6 (9.84%) PMO
2 5 (8.20%) SLA
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Ansible
1 5 (8.20%) Check_MK
1 5 (8.20%) Podman
1 5 (8.20%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (1.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.20%) VMware
3 3 (4.92%) Cisco
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Intel
4 2 (3.28%) Lattice Semiconductor
4 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.28%) Xilinx
5 1 (1.64%) Adobe
5 1 (1.64%) Cerner
5 1 (1.64%) F5
5 1 (1.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk