Knowledge Management Contracts

Knowledge Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Knowledge Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Knowledge Management over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 488 492
Rank change year-on-year +27 +4 +115
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Management 62 91 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.25% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 56 148
10th Percentile £388 £186 £332
25th Percentile £413 £365 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £515 £625 £613
90th Percentile £576 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.89% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - - £23.75
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +45.83%
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - £29.54 £46.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +12.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Knowledge 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 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
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% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +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%

Knowledge Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Management in the UK

Knowledge 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 Knowledge Management within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +28 53 £464 -7.25% 127
UK excluding London +28 36 £480 -4.00% 59
London +40 24 £450 -10.00% 81
Work from Home +40 21 £496 -0.80% 77
South East +43 13 £400 +166.67% 24
Scotland +8 9 £499 -0.30% 7
Midlands +22 6 £471 - 5
North of England +15 5 £475 -25.64% 13
Yorkshire +10 3 £475 -25.64% 3
West Midlands +7 3 £550 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £391 - 2
East of England +15 2 £800 +6.67% 2
North West +11 2 £500 -29.58% 8
South West +28 1 - - 9

Knowledge 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 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.23%) CMS
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.61%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (3.23%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.61%) iTrent
3 1 (1.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.52%) Azure
1 9 (14.52%) Entra ID
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.06%) OCI
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.61%) Asana
5 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) DHCP
1 2 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) CTI
2 1 (1.61%) Internet
2 1 (1.61%) Intranet
2 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.61%) DataStage
3 1 (1.61%) DB2
3 1 (1.61%) Looker
3 1 (1.61%) Metadata
3 1 (1.61%) Power BI
3 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Eclipse
General
1 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.65%) Finance
3 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.68%) Banking
6 5 (8.06%) Front Office
7 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.84%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.84%) Law
8 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.61%) Marketing
9 1 (1.61%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Analyst
2 6 (9.68%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.06%) Business IT Analyst
3 5 (8.06%) IT Analyst
4 4 (6.45%) Applications Support
4 4 (6.45%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Service Manager
4 4 (6.45%) Support Analyst
4 4 (6.45%) Support Specialist
4 4 (6.45%) Systems Support
5 3 (4.84%) Business Support Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Business Systems Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Developer
5 3 (4.84%) IT Support
5 3 (4.84%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Knowledge Manager
5 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Systems Support Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (8.06%) CSS
3 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 4 (6.45%) HTML
4 3 (4.84%) JSON
4 3 (4.84%) Web Services
4 3 (4.84%) XML
5 2 (3.23%) Ajax
5 2 (3.23%) Bootstrap
5 2 (3.23%) LDAP
5 2 (3.23%) Node.js
5 2 (3.23%) WebCenter
6 1 (1.61%) Middleware
6 1 (1.61%) REST
6 1 (1.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) CMDB
2 7 (11.29%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.45%) Equities
3 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.84%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.84%) Grid Computing
4 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.23%) Derivative
5 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.23%) Life Science
5 2 (3.23%) Wiki
6 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.61%) PKI
6 1 (1.61%) PMI
6 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.61%) Replication
6 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Unix
3 3 (4.84%) Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Android
4 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) ITIL
1 22 (35.48%) ITSM
2 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (27.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (22.58%) Analytics
5 13 (20.97%) Change Management
5 13 (20.97%) Incident Management
6 12 (19.35%) Agile
6 12 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.74%) Release Management
8 10 (16.13%) Problem Management
8 10 (16.13%) Project Management
8 10 (16.13%) Service Delivery
9 9 (14.52%) Asset Management
9 9 (14.52%) Coaching
10 8 (12.90%) Service Management
11 7 (11.29%) Proactive Monitoring
12 6 (9.68%) Performance Monitoring
12 6 (9.68%) Proactive Maintenance
12 6 (9.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) Python
1 8 (12.90%) SQL
2 6 (9.68%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.23%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) ProC
4 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.61%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Degree
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.84%) A+ Certification
4 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.84%) MCP
4 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.23%) PMP
6 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) CISSP
6 1 (1.61%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.61%) GIAC
6 1 (1.61%) HNC
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) QA
3 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.61%) COBIT
5 1 (1.61%) GRC
5 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.84%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.61%) SCCM
3 1 (1.61%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) ServiceNow
2 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.68%) Oracle
4 4 (6.45%) Splunk
5 3 (4.84%) Dynatrace
5 3 (4.84%) Liquidlogic
5 3 (4.84%) Remedy
6 2 (3.23%) BMC
6 2 (3.23%) Workday
7 1 (1.61%) Apple
7 1 (1.61%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.61%) Citrix
7 1 (1.61%) Foundry
7 1 (1.61%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) Nexthink
7 1 (1.61%) Palantir
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) Snow
7 1 (1.61%) Talend