Information Management Contracts

Information Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Information Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 393 422
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 +55
Contract jobs citing Information Management 146 208 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 146 215
10th Percentile £311 £350 £299
25th Percentile £438 £441 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +7.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £709 £700 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 8
10th Percentile - £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £47.50 £20.50 £41.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 £35.00 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -38.60% +238.88%
75th Percentile £67.00 £71.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £77.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £33.25 £63.00
% change year-on-year +89.47% -47.22% +274.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Information Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Management in the UK

Information Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Information Management in the UK

Information Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Management in the UK

Information Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Management in the UK

Information Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Information Management over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Management in the UK

Information Management
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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 0 117 £530 +0.95% 283
UK excluding London +17 70 £550 +4.76% 234
Work from Home +13 57 £513 -8.48% 223
London +25 54 £463 -11.90% 90
South West +47 24 £530 +0.95% 25
East of England +49 22 £600 +14.29% 27
South East +25 11 £538 +11.98% 67
Scotland +12 7 £300 -45.45% 19
North of England +4 3 £550 +10.00% 51
Midlands +1 3 £575 +4.55% 39
West Midlands -3 3 £575 +4.55% 19
North West -5 2 - - 31
North East - 1 £550 - 2

Information 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 8 (5.48%) WebSphere
2 7 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.11%) CMS
4 4 (2.74%) Drupal
5 2 (1.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.68%) Appian
6 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.79%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.68%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.42%) SAP MDG
1 5 (3.42%) SAP MDG-S
1 5 (3.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.74%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.74%) SAP ERP
2 4 (2.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.37%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.59%) Azure
2 13 (8.90%) AWS
3 12 (8.22%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.79%) Salsify
6 5 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.42%) Serverless
7 4 (2.74%) Attraqt
7 4 (2.74%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.74%) PaaS
7 4 (2.74%) SaaS
7 4 (2.74%) Storyblok
7 4 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (2.05%) Alation
8 3 (2.05%) Collibra
8 3 (2.05%) GitHub
8 3 (2.05%) IaaS
9 2 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.22%) SSL
2 10 (6.85%) DNS
2 10 (6.85%) FTP
2 10 (6.85%) HTTP
2 10 (6.85%) Network Security
2 10 (6.85%) SMTP
3 5 (3.42%) Firewall
4 4 (2.74%) Intranet
5 3 (2.05%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.05%) Wireless
6 2 (1.37%) IPsec
6 2 (1.37%) LAN
6 2 (1.37%) MPLS
6 2 (1.37%) NAS
6 2 (1.37%) VPN
6 2 (1.37%) WAN
7 1 (0.68%) Extranet
7 1 (0.68%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.48%) DB2
2 5 (3.42%) Big Data
2 5 (3.42%) Metadata
2 5 (3.42%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.42%) Power BI
2 5 (3.42%) Power Query
2 5 (3.42%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (2.74%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.74%) MySQL
3 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.05%) EDRMS
5 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.68%) EDMS
6 1 (0.68%) Parquet
6 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (4.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.05%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.68%) Git
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 62 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 22 (15.07%) Finance
4 11 (7.53%) Law
5 9 (6.16%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.48%) Retail
7 6 (4.11%) Legal
7 6 (4.11%) Local Government
7 6 (4.11%) Marketing
8 3 (2.05%) Electronics
8 3 (2.05%) Police
8 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.37%) Back Office
9 2 (1.37%) Billing
9 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (21.92%) Analyst
2 28 (19.18%) Architect
3 14 (9.59%) Business Analyst
3 14 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (6.16%) Lead
4 9 (6.16%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (5.48%) Data Steward
5 8 (5.48%) Systems Analyst
6 7 (4.79%) LIMS Business Analyst
6 7 (4.79%) Systems Architect
7 6 (4.11%) Consultant
7 6 (4.11%) Data Architect
7 6 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (4.11%) Head of Information
7 6 (4.11%) Information Architect
7 6 (4.11%) Senior
8 5 (3.42%) Head of Information Management
8 5 (3.42%) Information Analyst
8 5 (3.42%) Information Manager
8 5 (3.42%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.22%) LDAP
2 6 (4.11%) .NET
3 5 (3.42%) JSON
3 5 (3.42%) Kafka
4 4 (2.74%) OpenAPI
4 4 (2.74%) RAML
4 4 (2.74%) RESTful
4 4 (2.74%) Swagger
4 4 (2.74%) XML
5 2 (1.37%) Middleware
6 1 (0.68%) CSS
6 1 (0.68%) HTML
6 1 (0.68%) jQuery
6 1 (0.68%) MIDP
6 1 (0.68%) Next.js
6 1 (0.68%) NumPy
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth
6 1 (0.68%) Pandas
6 1 (0.68%) PySpark
6 1 (0.68%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 70 (47.95%) Management Information System
2 14 (9.59%) LIMS
3 10 (6.85%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (5.48%) CSOC
4 8 (5.48%) Cyberattack
4 8 (5.48%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.42%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.74%) Genomics
6 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.05%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.05%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.05%) NHS
8 2 (1.37%) FMCG
8 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Unix
2 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (19.18%) Data Management
2 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (15.75%) Agile
4 22 (15.07%) Data Governance
4 22 (15.07%) Product Information Management
5 18 (12.33%) Analytics
5 18 (12.33%) Decision-Making
6 15 (10.27%) Data Architecture
6 15 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (9.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (9.59%) E-Commerce
7 14 (9.59%) Information Security
7 14 (9.59%) Roadmaps
8 13 (8.90%) Business Case
8 13 (8.90%) Data Modelling
9 12 (8.22%) ERP
9 12 (8.22%) Machine Learning
9 12 (8.22%) TOGAF
10 11 (7.53%) Project Management
10 11 (7.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.90%) SQL
2 6 (4.11%) Java
2 6 (4.11%) Python
3 4 (2.74%) Ruby
4 3 (2.05%) C++
5 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.68%) PHP
6 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Rust
6 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (35.62%) Security Cleared
2 49 (33.56%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.70%) Degree
4 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (2.74%) SAP Certification
7 3 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.37%) APMG
8 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.27%) GDPR
3 9 (6.16%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.11%) QA
5 3 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.05%) PMO
6 2 (1.37%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.16%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.05%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Ansible
3 2 (1.37%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.22%) Informatica
2 12 (8.22%) SAP
3 10 (6.85%) Oracle
4 9 (6.16%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (4.11%) MuleSoft
6 5 (3.42%) Google
6 5 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.74%) LabVantage
7 4 (2.74%) Sparx
8 3 (2.05%) Cisco
9 2 (1.37%) Dell
9 2 (1.37%) F5
9 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.37%) Splunk
10 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.68%) IBM
10 1 (0.68%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.68%) Progress
10 1 (0.68%) Remedy