Document Management Contracts

Document Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Document Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Document Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 427 535
Rank change year-on-year +13 +108 +74
Contract jobs citing Document Management 111 154 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 73 119
10th Percentile £260 £163 £200
25th Percentile £400 £200 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -23.08% -2.50%
75th Percentile £544 £625 £550
90th Percentile £636 £775 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £296 £400
% change year-on-year +41.23% -26.10% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 42 3
10th Percentile - £14.00 £21.28
25th Percentile £16.00 £17.00 £21.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.24 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year +179.75% +1.46% -66.57%
75th Percentile £75.63 £40.94 £25.83
90th Percentile £82.00 £50.00 £27.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £26.68 £24.63
% change year-on-year +143.63% +8.35% -66.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Document 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 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

Document Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Document Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Document Management in the UK

Document Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Document Management.

Daily rate trend for Document Management in the UK

Document Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Document Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Document Management in the UK

Document Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Document Management.

Hourly rate trend for Document Management in the UK

Document Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Document Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Document Management in the UK

Document Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Document Management within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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 +18 87 £475 +17.28% 133
London +41 54 £488 +4.00% 67
UK excluding London -8 41 £418 +41.23% 76
Work from Home +25 26 £600 +84.62% 59
East of England +21 9 £650 +48.57% 13
Midlands +22 8 £400 -20.00% 3
West Midlands +13 7 £400 +100.00% 2
South East +23 6 £394 +96.88% 22
North of England +9 5 £520 +103.82% 19
Scotland -2 5 £443 +83.91% 4
South West +27 4 £238 -68.33% 9
Yorkshire +16 4 £520 +19.48% 6
Wales - 3 - - 2
East Midlands +9 1 - - 1
North East -5 1 - - 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Document Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 43 (38.74%) SharePoint
2 12 (10.81%) Confluence
3 5 (4.50%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (3.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.90%) Camunda
5 1 (0.90%) Documentum
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.41%) InfoPath
3 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.90%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.90%) Simulink
5 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (8.11%) SAP PP
1 9 (8.11%) SAP R/3
2 6 (5.41%) Teamcenter
3 3 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.80%) SAP EHS
4 2 (1.80%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.90%) iTrent
5 1 (0.90%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.90%) OpenText VIM for SAP
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.32%) Azure
1 17 (15.32%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (14.41%) Power Platform
3 12 (10.81%) Power Automate
4 9 (8.11%) GitHub
4 9 (8.11%) PowerApps
5 8 (7.21%) PaaS
6 6 (5.41%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.41%) Serverless
7 5 (4.50%) Azure Functions
7 5 (4.50%) Azure WebJobs
7 5 (4.50%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.50%) SaaS
7 5 (4.50%) ShareGate
8 4 (3.60%) AWS
9 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.70%) Google Docs
9 3 (2.70%) Google Sheets
9 3 (2.70%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) Intranet
2 2 (1.80%) LAN
2 2 (1.80%) WAN
3 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) Power BI
2 4 (3.60%) EDMS
2 4 (3.60%) Metadata
3 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.90%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) JIRA
2 5 (4.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (3.60%) Cucumber
3 4 (3.60%) Git
3 4 (3.60%) Gradle
3 4 (3.60%) HP UFT
3 4 (3.60%) IntelliJ
3 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.60%) JUnit
3 4 (3.60%) Maven
3 4 (3.60%) Selenium
4 3 (2.70%) Subversion
5 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.23%) Finance
3 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.01%) Manufacturing
5 9 (8.11%) Aerospace
5 9 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (7.21%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.31%) Banking
7 7 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.50%) Legal
9 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Electronics
10 2 (1.80%) Military
11 1 (0.90%) Advertising
11 1 (0.90%) Back Office
11 1 (0.90%) Local Government
11 1 (0.90%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (14.41%) Consultant
2 15 (13.51%) Architect
3 13 (11.71%) Analyst
4 11 (9.91%) SAP Consultant
5 10 (9.01%) Functional Consultant
5 10 (9.01%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 9 (8.11%) Lead
6 9 (8.11%) SAP PP Consultant
6 9 (8.11%) SAP PP Functional Consultant
7 8 (7.21%) Administrator
7 8 (7.21%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.21%) Project Manager
8 7 (6.31%) SharePoint Architect
9 6 (5.41%) Developer
9 6 (5.41%) SAP MM Consultant
9 6 (5.41%) SAP MM Functional Consultant
9 6 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Senior
11 3 (2.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
11 3 (2.70%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) SPFx
2 2 (1.80%) ADO
2 2 (1.80%) Middleware
3 1 (0.90%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.90%) React
3 1 (0.90%) REST
3 1 (0.90%) SOAP
3 1 (0.90%) Spring
3 1 (0.90%) TypeORM
3 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.41%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.01%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.21%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.90%) CMDB
7 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.90%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.90%) SCADA
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Windows
2 4 (3.60%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.52%) Agile
2 22 (19.82%) Migration
2 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (12.61%) Project Management
5 13 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (9.91%) DevOps
7 10 (9.01%) Change Management
7 10 (9.01%) Integration Testing
7 10 (9.01%) Validation
8 9 (8.11%) Inventory Management
8 9 (8.11%) Roadmaps
9 8 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.21%) Data Management
9 8 (7.21%) Data Migration
9 8 (7.21%) Workflow
10 7 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (6.31%) CRM
10 7 (6.31%) Data Protection
10 7 (6.31%) PDM
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.91%) PowerShell
2 9 (8.11%) ABAP
3 7 (6.31%) Java
4 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.70%) SQL
5 2 (1.80%) C#
5 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.80%) Python
6 1 (0.90%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) Degree
4 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.70%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.70%) PMP
5 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) RIBA
6 1 (0.90%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) HNC
6 1 (0.90%) IIBA
6 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) PMO
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) Data Guard
1 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.70%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.51%) SAP
3 9 (8.11%) Oracle
4 3 (2.70%) Google
4 3 (2.70%) Guidewire
4 3 (2.70%) iManage
4 3 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.70%) Xero
5 2 (1.80%) Autodesk
5 2 (1.80%) Databricks
5 2 (1.80%) NEC
5 2 (1.80%) OpenText
6 1 (0.90%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.90%) Adobe
6 1 (0.90%) Ariba
6 1 (0.90%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.90%) F5
6 1 (0.90%) Intapp
6 1 (0.90%) Okta