Artefact Management Contract Job Trends

Artefact Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Artefact Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 559 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing Artefact Management 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £490 £366 -
25th Percentile £513 £372 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.84% - -
75th Percentile £688 £397 -
90th Percentile £770 £399 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £388 -
% change year-on-year +41.84% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Artefact 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,116 31,513 40,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 86.36% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,100 18,975 27,383
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,121 1,108 1,576
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.17 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.17 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.36% +25.57%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -25.84% +50.29%

Artefact Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Artefact Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Artefact Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Artefact Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Artefact Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Artefact Management

Artefact Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Artefact Management over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Artefact Management in the UK

Artefact Management
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Artefact Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 November 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
England -23 5 £550 +41.84% 4
UK excluding London -27 3 £550 +41.84% 2
South West - 2 - -
London - 2 £638 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
Work from Home - 1 £550 - 1
North of England - 1 £550 -

Artefact Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Akamai
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) F5
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow