Information Management Contracts

Information Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Information Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Information Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 419 480
Rank change year-on-year +36 +61 -28
Contract jobs citing Information Management 202 294 419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.56% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 202 297
10th Percentile £350 £299 £314
25th Percentile £434 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +9.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £605 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £515 £475
% change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 8
10th Percentile £16.12 £17.50 £15.30
25th Percentile £20.50 £37.50 £16.21
Median hourly rate £31.50 £50.50 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -37.62% +167.83% -11.27%
75th Percentile £74.13 £65.63 £46.46
90th Percentile £77.00 £66.00 £62.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.25 £50.00 £16.82
% change year-on-year -47.50% +197.27% -10.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Information Management 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Information Management in the UK

Information Management
Top 14 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 13 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
England +33 169 £525 -4.55% 184
UK excluding London +44 112 £525 +1.94% 147
Work from Home +82 84 £570 +3.64% 60
London +39 69 £519 -5.68% 51
South East +9 34 £480 -16.47% 29
North of England +32 22 £500 -9.09% 46
North West +39 21 £500 -4.76% 24
South West -4 20 £525 +1.87% 17
Midlands +34 18 £550 +4.76% 14
West Midlands +26 18 £550 +4.76% 7
Wales - 10 £535 - 2
Scotland +35 6 £375 - 18
East of England +3 3 £525 +55.56% 21
Yorkshire +19 1 - - 13

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 30 (14.85%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.97%) Confluence
3 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.99%) CMS
4 2 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.99%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.50%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.98%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.98%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) MIS ActiveH
1 3 (1.49%) NEC Housing
1 3 (1.49%) SystmOne
2 2 (0.99%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.50%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.50%) SAP PS
3 1 (0.50%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.41%) Power Platform
2 11 (5.45%) Azure
3 6 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (1.98%) GitHub
4 4 (1.98%) iPaaS
5 3 (1.49%) AWS
5 3 (1.49%) Salsify
5 3 (1.49%) Serverless
6 2 (0.99%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (0.99%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 2 (0.99%) Veeva
7 1 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.50%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.50%) OCI
7 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.96%) DHCP
1 8 (3.96%) DNS
1 8 (3.96%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.98%) Intranet
3 3 (1.49%) SAN
4 2 (0.99%) Firewall
4 2 (0.99%) VoIP
5 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.50%) FCoE
5 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.50%) IPsec
5 1 (0.50%) ISDN
5 1 (0.50%) Junos
5 1 (0.50%) LAN
5 1 (0.50%) NGFW
5 1 (0.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.50%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.50%) WAN
5 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.91%) Power BI
2 16 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.43%) Metadata
4 9 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.97%) Big Data
5 6 (2.97%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.97%) Tableau
6 5 (2.48%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.98%) MySQL
7 4 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.49%) OLAP
8 3 (1.49%) OLTP
8 3 (1.49%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.99%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.97%) JIRA
2 2 (0.99%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.99%) CircleCI
2 2 (0.99%) Git
2 2 (0.99%) kappa
2 2 (0.99%) RStudio
3 1 (0.50%) TestComplete
3 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.85%) Finance
3 27 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.89%) Legal
5 18 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (6.44%) Banking
7 8 (3.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.97%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.98%) Advertising
11 4 (1.98%) Billing
11 4 (1.98%) International Banking
11 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.98%) Retail
12 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.49%) Military
13 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (14.36%) Analyst
2 21 (10.40%) Architect
3 15 (7.43%) Senior
4 14 (6.93%) Lead
5 11 (5.45%) Consultant
5 11 (5.45%) Data Architect
6 10 (4.95%) Business Analyst
6 10 (4.95%) Data Analyst
7 9 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.96%) Developer
8 8 (3.96%) Information Officer
9 7 (3.47%) Information Governance Officer
9 7 (3.47%) IT Manager
9 7 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Support Officer
10 6 (2.97%) Change Manager
10 6 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.48%) Administrator
11 5 (2.48%) Information Analyst
11 5 (2.48%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.98%) HTML
2 3 (1.49%) JSON
2 3 (1.49%) RESTful
2 3 (1.49%) Web Services
3 2 (0.99%) CSS
3 2 (0.99%) Node.js
3 2 (0.99%) XML
4 1 (0.50%) .NET
4 1 (0.50%) OAuth
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (28.22%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.93%) LIMS
3 10 (4.95%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.96%) NHS
5 7 (3.47%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.97%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.48%) Freedom of Information
7 5 (2.48%) Life Science
7 5 (2.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.49%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.49%) Robotics
8 3 (1.49%) State Machine
8 3 (1.49%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.99%) FMCG
9 2 (0.99%) PACS
9 2 (0.99%) PKI
9 2 (0.99%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.44%) Windows
2 9 (4.46%) Linux
2 9 (4.46%) Unix
3 7 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.99%) Android
4 2 (0.99%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (17.82%) Data Management
2 34 (16.83%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (13.37%) Analytics
3 27 (13.37%) Migration
4 26 (12.87%) Change Management
5 25 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (11.88%) Data Architecture
6 24 (11.88%) Product Information Management
7 23 (11.39%) Data Modelling
7 23 (11.39%) Information Security
7 23 (11.39%) Project Management
8 21 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (10.40%) Data Governance
9 19 (9.41%) Data Protection
9 19 (9.41%) Service Management
10 17 (8.42%) Project Delivery
10 17 (8.42%) Visualisation
11 16 (7.92%) Process Improvement
12 15 (7.43%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.45%) SQL
2 10 (4.95%) C#
3 8 (3.96%) Java
4 5 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.98%) Python
6 2 (0.99%) Bash
6 2 (0.99%) PHP
6 2 (0.99%) R
7 1 (0.50%) C
7 1 (0.50%) C++
7 1 (0.50%) Perl
7 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (21.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.38%) Degree
3 25 (12.38%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.49%) CIPD
4 3 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.99%) A+ Certification
5 2 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (0.99%) CISSP
5 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (0.99%) MCITP
5 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.50%) CITP
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.50%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.44%) PMO
3 12 (5.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (5.45%) NIST
5 10 (4.95%) GDPR
6 8 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (1.49%) IASME
8 3 (1.49%) QA
9 2 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.99%) NCSC
10 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.50%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.47%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (3.47%) VMware NSX
3 4 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (3.47%) SCCM
1 7 (3.47%) vCenter Server
2 5 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.99%) Terraform
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) CASB
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 34 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.94%) SAP
3 9 (4.46%) InterSystems
3 9 (4.46%) Veeam
3 9 (4.46%) VMware
4 8 (3.96%) Informatica
5 5 (2.48%) Autodesk
6 4 (1.98%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.98%) IFS
7 3 (1.49%) Ariba
7 3 (1.49%) NEC
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle
7 3 (1.49%) Sage
8 2 (0.99%) Adobe
8 2 (0.99%) Cerner
9 1 (0.50%) Apple
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco
9 1 (0.50%) Forcepoint
9 1 (0.50%) Juniper
9 1 (0.50%) Northgate