Information Retrieval Contracts in the UK excluding London

Information Retrieval
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Information Retrieval skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Retrieval over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 453 502
Rank change year-on-year +70 +49 -
Contract jobs citing Information Retrieval 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.014% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £670 - £440
25th Percentile £700 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £450
75th Percentile £800 - £493
90th Percentile £830 - £511
UK median daily rate £713 £650 £483
% change year-on-year +9.62% +34.72% -21.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.91 -
UK median hourly rate £20.02 £13.91 -
% change year-on-year +43.93% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Information Retrieval is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Information Retrieval
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Retrieval in the UK excluding London

Information Retrieval
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Information Retrieval in the UK excluding London

Information Retrieval
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Retrieval in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Retrieval in the UK excluding London

Information Retrieval
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Retrieval in the UK excluding London

Information Retrieval
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 Retrieval within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West - 1 £650 - 2
South West - 1 £850 -
North of England - 1 £650 - 3
Information Retrieval
UK

Information Retrieval
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft