Knowledge Transfer Contracts

Knowledge Transfer
UK

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 248 289
Rank change year-on-year +33 +41 +79
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 409 368 458
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.24% 0.95% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.11% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 241 310
10th Percentile £393 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £631
90th Percentile £703 £732 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.75% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £19.28 £13.81 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.58 £16.64 £15.13
Median hourly rate £33.54 £24.22 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +38.47% +15.05% +55.93%
75th Percentile £47.75 £28.42 £21.28
90th Percentile £62.60 £39.75 £25.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £19.30 £21.05
% change year-on-year +96.94% -8.34% +65.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Knowledge Transfer 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 29,782 33,089 46,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.47% 85.40% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,513 21,182 31,676
10th Percentile £300 £310 £319
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,727 1,781 1,507
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.16 £18.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -46.07% +19.72% +61.36%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Transfer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 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 +35 325 £540 -1.82% 225
UK excluding London +45 195 £519 +3.75% 132
London -9 135 £550 -5.98% 116
Work from Home +17 120 £500 -7.19% 84
North of England +8 60 £597 +19.40% 27
North West +26 47 £600 +9.09% 12
Midlands +9 33 £500 +2.30% 9
South East +20 30 £513 -10.87% 49
East of England +14 26 £528 +0.57% 9
Scotland -1 24 £475 -13.64% 11
West Midlands +9 23 £525 -19.23% 6
South West +18 22 £475 - 24
Yorkshire -10 11 £520 +9.47% 12
East Midlands +2 10 £393 -19.49% 3
Wales +5 2 £453 -9.50% 3
North East -7 2 £550 +15.79% 4
Northern Ireland -14 1 £475 - 4

Knowledge Transfer
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 21 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (0.98%) Confluence
4 4 (0.98%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.73%) CICS
5 3 (0.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Appian
7 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle UPK
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (2.69%) Siemens NX
2 7 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.73%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.24%) Camtasia
6 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.24%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.91%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (2.69%) Teamcenter
4 5 (1.22%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.22%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.98%) Kondor
5 4 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.98%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.98%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.73%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.73%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 62 (15.16%) Azure
2 26 (6.36%) AWS
3 25 (6.11%) Entra ID
4 21 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.91%) OCI
7 14 (3.42%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.44%) GCP
8 10 (2.44%) GitHub
9 8 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (1.96%) OneDrive
10 7 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.47%) SaaS
12 5 (1.22%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.22%) IaaS
12 5 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 37 (9.05%) Firewall
2 13 (3.18%) WAN
3 10 (2.44%) Network Security
4 9 (2.20%) BGP
4 9 (2.20%) OSPF
5 8 (1.96%) DNS
5 8 (1.96%) LAN
6 7 (1.71%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.71%) VPN
7 6 (1.47%) DHCP
8 5 (1.22%) SSL
8 5 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.98%) IPsec
9 4 (0.98%) VLAN
10 3 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (0.73%) Internet
10 3 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.73%) Wireless
11 2 (0.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.20%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (1.47%) Power BI
3 5 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.22%) KDB
3 5 (1.22%) Kdb+
3 5 (1.22%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.98%) Metadata
5 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (0.73%) Siebel EIM
6 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.49%) Bigtable
6 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.49%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (4.65%) JIRA
2 8 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.47%) GitLab
4 5 (1.22%) Git
5 4 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.98%) Postman
5 4 (0.98%) Selenium
6 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.73%) ERwin
6 3 (0.73%) JUnit
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.49%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.49%) JMeter
7 2 (0.49%) MagicDraw
7 2 (0.49%) Mockito
7 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.49%) TestNG
General
1 174 (42.54%) Social Skills
2 92 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (20.78%) Finance
4 45 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 31 (7.58%) Manufacturing
6 30 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (5.13%) Banking
8 13 (3.18%) Retail
9 12 (2.93%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.20%) Marketing
12 6 (1.47%) Legal
12 6 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.22%) Local Government
13 5 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.73%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.73%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 93 (22.74%) Consultant
2 54 (13.20%) Developer
3 36 (8.80%) Architect
4 32 (7.82%) Analyst
5 29 (7.09%) Lead
6 20 (4.89%) Senior
7 18 (4.40%) SAP Consultant
8 15 (3.67%) Security Engineer
9 13 (3.18%) ServiceNow Developer
10 12 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (2.69%) Network Engineer
12 10 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (2.44%) Oracle Consultant
12 10 (2.44%) Project Manager
12 10 (2.44%) Service Manager
12 10 (2.44%) Service Transition Manager
12 10 (2.44%) Transition Manager
13 9 (2.20%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (2.20%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.20%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.67%) SOAP
2 14 (3.42%) REST
3 13 (3.18%) .NET
3 13 (3.18%) ARM Templates
4 12 (2.93%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (2.69%) Web Services
6 10 (2.44%) CSS
7 9 (2.20%) HTML
8 7 (1.71%) JMS
8 7 (1.71%) Middleware
9 5 (1.22%) OAuth
9 5 (1.22%) React
9 5 (1.22%) RESTful
9 5 (1.22%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (1.22%) Spring
9 5 (1.22%) XML
10 4 (0.98%) ADO
10 4 (0.98%) JSON
10 4 (0.98%) OAuth2
10 4 (0.98%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.87%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 13 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 12 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.47%) Fibre Optics
7 6 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.22%) Derivative
8 5 (1.22%) Wiki
9 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.98%) IVR
9 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.73%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.73%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.07%) Windows
2 31 (7.58%) Linux
3 13 (3.18%) Unix
4 6 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.22%) VMS
6 4 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.73%) Solaris
7 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.73%) zOS
8 2 (0.49%) AIX
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Android
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (19.80%) Migration
3 67 (16.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 65 (15.89%) Agile
5 59 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 53 (12.96%) DevOps
7 43 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 39 (9.54%) Mentoring
9 38 (9.29%) Data Migration
10 37 (9.05%) Analytics
11 36 (8.80%) CI/CD
12 35 (8.56%) Project Management
13 33 (8.07%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (8.07%) Validation
14 31 (7.58%) Change Management
15 30 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (6.36%) Data Modelling
16 26 (6.36%) Use Case
17 25 (6.11%) ERP
18 24 (5.87%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 58 (14.18%) SQL
2 43 (10.51%) Python
3 32 (7.82%) PowerShell
4 22 (5.38%) JavaScript
4 22 (5.38%) PL/SQL
5 20 (4.89%) Java
6 10 (2.44%) Bash
7 6 (1.47%) Bicep
8 5 (1.22%) C#
8 5 (1.22%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.73%) CLIST
10 3 (0.73%) JCL
10 3 (0.73%) REXX
10 3 (0.73%) Scala
11 2 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (0.49%) Go
11 2 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.24%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 83 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.36%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.58%) Degree
4 13 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.93%) PMP
6 10 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.20%) CISSP
8 7 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.47%) CCNP
9 6 (1.47%) CISM
9 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.22%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.98%) CCNA
12 3 (0.73%) CCIE
12 3 (0.73%) CEH
12 3 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.73%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.33%) QA
2 17 (4.16%) GDPR
3 14 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (3.42%) NIST
4 10 (2.44%) HIPAA
5 6 (1.47%) SLA
6 5 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.22%) PMO
7 4 (0.98%) Basel III
7 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.98%) MiFID
8 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.73%) WCAG
9 2 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.49%) GRC
9 2 (0.49%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.24%) EMIR
System Software
1 24 (5.87%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.69%) Docker
3 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (0.73%) vSphere
6 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) IAG
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.24%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (7.58%) Terraform
2 11 (2.69%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.20%) Ansible
4 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.22%) SCCM
5 4 (0.98%) Grafana
5 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.73%) CA Endevor
6 3 (0.73%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.73%) Kibana
6 3 (0.73%) OMEGAMON
7 2 (0.49%) Control-M
7 2 (0.49%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.49%) Istio
7 2 (0.49%) linkerd
7 2 (0.49%) logstash
7 2 (0.49%) Rancher
7 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.24%) VxRail
Vendors
1 64 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 58 (14.18%) Oracle
3 40 (9.78%) SAP
4 32 (7.82%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.16%) Workday
6 14 (3.42%) VMware
7 11 (2.69%) Cisco
7 11 (2.69%) Palo Alto
7 11 (2.69%) Splunk
8 10 (2.44%) Siemens
9 8 (1.96%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.71%) UiPath
11 4 (0.98%) Ariba
11 4 (0.98%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.98%) Databricks
11 4 (0.98%) Dell
11 4 (0.98%) IBM
11 4 (0.98%) Sybase
12 3 (0.73%) Siebel