Freedom of Information Act Contracts

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information Act in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Freedom of Information Act over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 581 680
Rank change year-on-year +70 +99 +145
Contract jobs citing Freedom of Information Act 8 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.044% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.081% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 13 26
10th Percentile - £276 £471
25th Percentile - £315 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% -25.00% +50.94%
75th Percentile - £588 £709
90th Percentile - £723 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £305 £232
% change year-on-year -34.43% +31.39% -34.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £27.78 - -
25th Percentile £27.98 - -
Median hourly rate £28.32 £11.95 £44.53
Median % change year-on-year +136.99% -73.16% +71.27%
75th Percentile £28.66 - -
90th Percentile £28.86 £13.44 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.32 £14.44 £44.53
% change year-on-year +96.12% -67.57% +71.27%

All Generic Skills
UK

Freedom of Information Act falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Freedom of Information Act
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Freedom of Information Act as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Freedom of Information Act in the UK

Freedom of Information Act
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Freedom of Information Act.

Daily rate trend for Freedom of Information Act in the UK

Freedom of Information Act
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Freedom of Information Act.

Hourly rate trend for Freedom of Information Act in the UK

Freedom of Information Act
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Freedom of Information Act within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +50 6 £200 -55.56% 10
UK excluding London +56 4 £200 -34.43% 4
South East +44 2 £200 - 1
London +20 2 - - 4
South West - 2 - -
Work from Home +46 1 £200 -65.96% 8

Freedom of Information Act
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Law
4 2 (25.00%) Local Government
4 2 (25.00%) Military
5 1 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (12.50%) Police
5 1 (12.50%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Information Governance Officer
2 2 (25.00%) Information Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Information Officer
3 1 (12.50%) CDIO
3 1 (12.50%) CIO
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (12.50%) Governance Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Information Governance Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Freedom of Information
2 6 (75.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (12.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (50.00%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (37.50%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Information Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (37.50%) Requirements Management
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Sharing
4 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
11 Freedom of Information Act jobs Nationwide