Management Information System Contracts

Management Information Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Management Information System in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Management Information System over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -25 +9 +27
Contract jobs citing Management Information System 684 1,040 1,404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 2.45% 2.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.96% 8.07% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 594 711
10th Percentile £250 £213 £273
25th Percentile £363 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £641 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 112 247
10th Percentile £19.00 £11.95 -
25th Percentile £23.24 £15.17 £9.80
Median hourly rate £33.00 £20.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% +96.33% -50.56%
75th Percentile £72.18 £43.42 £12.02
90th Percentile £87.05 £60.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £19.55 £9.80
% change year-on-year +104.66% +99.44% -54.18%

All Generic Skills
UK

Management Information System 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 9,830 12,885 18,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.05% 30.34% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,239 8,308 12,974
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £680
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 900 624
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.80 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +41.54% -19.07%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £62.25
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - +36.36% +4.14%

Management Information System
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Management Information System in the UK

Management Information System
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Management Information System in the UK

Management Information System
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Management Information System over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Management Information System in the UK

Management Information System
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Management Information System in the UK

Management Information System
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Management Information System over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Management Information System in the UK

Management Information System
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 Management Information System within the UK over the 6 months to 22 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 -29 568 £525 +1.69% 1,624
UK excluding London -11 388 £500 - 987
Work from Home -15 233 £525 +5.00% 1,014
London -33 233 £525 - 803
North of England +4 98 £473 -5.50% 223
South West +1 88 £450 -15.09% 119
North West +13 70 £413 -16.33% 133
Scotland +6 68 £420 -13.85% 62
South East -10 67 £575 +27.78% 348
Midlands -17 34 £447 -18.73% 122
East of England +5 33 £550 +57.14% 90
West Midlands -13 27 £500 -9.09% 73
Yorkshire -5 21 £550 -2.22% 79
North East +6 9 £575 -23.18% 15
East Midlands 0 7 £349 -15.00% 45
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 27
Wales -7 1 £180 -66.36% 26

Management Information System
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 37 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.63%) Confluence
3 16 (2.34%) CMS
4 8 (1.17%) Mattermost
4 8 (1.17%) Skype for Business
5 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.02%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.58%) SAS
7 3 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.44%) Drupal
8 2 (0.29%) Apache
8 2 (0.29%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.29%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.29%) JBoss
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.29%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
Applications
1 55 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 43 (6.29%) MS Visio
3 37 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Smart View
5 4 (0.58%) Revit
6 3 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.29%) CATIA
7 2 (0.29%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.15%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.15%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.32%) SAP PP
3 8 (1.17%) Teamcenter
4 7 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.73%) iTrent
5 5 (0.73%) SAP R/3
6 4 (0.58%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.58%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.44%) Primavera
7 3 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.29%) SAP LE
8 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.29%) SAP PLM
8 2 (0.29%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.29%) SAP WM
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 82 (11.99%) Azure
2 68 (9.94%) AWS
3 39 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 35 (5.12%) GCP
6 21 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (1.90%) OCI
7 13 (1.90%) SaaS
8 12 (1.75%) Google Workspace
9 11 (1.61%) IaaS
10 10 (1.46%) Entra ID
10 10 (1.46%) Serverless
11 7 (1.02%) Azure AKS
11 7 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (0.73%) Azure Functions
12 5 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (0.73%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.73%) OpenShift
12 5 (0.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.82%) Firewall
2 24 (3.51%) DNS
3 23 (3.36%) Network Security
4 22 (3.22%) VPN
5 15 (2.19%) LAN
5 15 (2.19%) SSL
6 14 (2.05%) HTTP
6 14 (2.05%) Intrusion Detection
7 12 (1.75%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.61%) Unified Communications
9 10 (1.46%) Skype
9 10 (1.46%) SMTP
9 10 (1.46%) Wireless
10 9 (1.32%) NAS
11 8 (1.17%) Softphone
11 8 (1.17%) WAN
11 8 (1.17%) WebEx
12 7 (1.02%) DHCP
12 7 (1.02%) FTP
12 7 (1.02%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.82%) Power BI
2 15 (2.19%) Metadata
2 15 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (1.90%) Power Query
4 11 (1.61%) Tableau
5 10 (1.46%) NoSQL
5 10 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.17%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.02%) DB2
7 7 (1.02%) MySQL
7 7 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.02%) SQL Server
8 5 (0.73%) Big Data
8 5 (0.73%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.44%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 28 (4.09%) JIRA
2 17 (2.49%) Git
2 17 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.44%) CircleCI
4 3 (0.44%) GitLab
4 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.44%) Subversion
5 2 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
5 2 (0.29%) ERwin
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
5 2 (0.29%) Vite
5 2 (0.29%) webpack
6 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.15%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.15%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.15%) Postman
6 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 312 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 176 (25.73%) Finance
3 175 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.73%) Banking
6 44 (6.43%) Presentation Skills
7 39 (5.70%) Manufacturing
8 28 (4.09%) Legal
9 23 (3.36%) Investment Banking
10 22 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (3.07%) Marketing
12 19 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.78%) Telecoms
13 15 (2.19%) Automotive
14 14 (2.05%) Military
15 13 (1.90%) French Language
16 12 (1.75%) Back Office
16 12 (1.75%) Law
16 12 (1.75%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 138 (20.18%) Analyst
2 85 (12.43%) Architect
3 73 (10.67%) Senior
4 48 (7.02%) Lead
5 40 (5.85%) Consultant
6 39 (5.70%) Business Analyst
7 36 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 35 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.95%) Developer
10 25 (3.65%) Security Engineer
11 24 (3.51%) Applications Support
12 22 (3.22%) Python Engineer
12 22 (3.22%) Support Analyst
13 21 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (2.92%) Project Manager
15 19 (2.78%) Security Architect
16 18 (2.63%) IT Engineer
16 18 (2.63%) IT Manager
16 18 (2.63%) SAP Consultant
17 15 (2.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.92%) Kafka
2 19 (2.78%) CSS
2 19 (2.78%) HTML
3 16 (2.34%) .NET
4 13 (1.90%) Middleware
4 13 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (1.61%) LDAP
6 8 (1.17%) OAuth
6 8 (1.17%) OpenID
6 8 (1.17%) SAML
6 8 (1.17%) XMPP
7 7 (1.02%) XML
8 6 (0.88%) JBoss Seam
8 6 (0.88%) RESTful
8 6 (0.88%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.73%) JSON
9 5 (0.73%) Node.js
9 5 (0.73%) Vue
9 5 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.39%) Security Posture
2 19 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (2.49%) CMDB
4 17 (2.49%) Operational Technology
4 17 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (1.46%) Cyberattack
9 10 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 9 (1.32%) IoT
10 9 (1.32%) Life Science
10 9 (1.32%) PMI
11 8 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.02%) Industry 4.0
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.92%) Windows
2 60 (8.77%) Linux
3 32 (4.68%) Unix
4 25 (3.65%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.88%) zOS
8 5 (0.73%) Windows 8
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.73%) Windows XP
9 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.44%) Android
10 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
2 124 (18.13%) Risk Management
3 111 (16.23%) Project Management
4 102 (14.91%) Agile
5 100 (14.62%) Computer Science
6 98 (14.33%) Decision-Making
7 93 (13.60%) Cybersecurity
7 93 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 92 (13.45%) Information Security
9 69 (10.09%) ITIL
10 65 (9.50%) Change Management
10 65 (9.50%) Collaborative Working
11 63 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 56 (8.19%) Information Management
13 55 (8.04%) Roadmaps
14 54 (7.89%) Data Management
15 51 (7.46%) Analytics
16 49 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
17 48 (7.02%) Service Management
18 47 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 81 (11.84%) SQL
2 73 (10.67%) Python
3 41 (5.99%) Java
4 33 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 31 (4.53%) PowerShell
6 21 (3.07%) Perl
7 15 (2.19%) TypeScript
8 12 (1.75%) C#
9 10 (1.46%) VBA
10 7 (1.02%) Bash
11 6 (0.88%) Erlang
11 6 (0.88%) Prolog
12 5 (0.73%) ABAP
12 5 (0.73%) Ruby
13 4 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.44%) C++
14 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.44%) PHP
14 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 199 (29.09%) Degree
2 131 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 99 (14.47%) SC Cleared
4 67 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (7.75%) CISSP
6 35 (5.12%) DV Cleared
7 24 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.07%) CISA
10 19 (2.78%) CISM
11 17 (2.49%) PMI Certification
12 16 (2.34%) Azure Certification
13 14 (2.05%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (1.61%) A+ Certification
16 10 (1.46%) PMP
17 9 (1.32%) CESG Certified Professional
18 8 (1.17%) AWS Certification
19 7 (1.02%) CCNA
19 7 (1.02%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (7.31%) GDPR
3 38 (5.56%) NIST
4 27 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 25 (3.65%) QA
6 24 (3.51%) Accessibility
7 20 (2.92%) NCSC
7 20 (2.92%) SLA
8 13 (1.90%) GRC
8 13 (1.90%) PMO
9 12 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 9 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (1.02%) COBIT
11 7 (1.02%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.88%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.73%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.73%) NIST 800
14 4 (0.58%) COSO
System Software
1 49 (7.16%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.61%) Docker
3 11 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.73%) RACF
4 5 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.58%) vSphere
6 3 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.15%) Firmware
8 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.05%) Terraform
3 9 (1.32%) Ansible
4 8 (1.17%) SCCM
4 8 (1.17%) SCOM
5 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.58%) CASB
6 4 (0.58%) RSA Archer
6 4 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.44%) Grafana
7 3 (0.44%) OPNET
8 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.29%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.29%) Podman
8 2 (0.29%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.29%) vRealize
9 1 (0.15%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 130 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.63%) SAP
3 50 (7.31%) Oracle
4 32 (4.68%) Google
5 31 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.92%) Cisco
7 15 (2.19%) VMware
8 14 (2.05%) Salesforce
8 14 (2.05%) Splunk
9 12 (1.75%) IBM
10 9 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.17%) Darktrace
12 7 (1.02%) Remedy
12 7 (1.02%) Workday
13 6 (0.88%) Adobe
13 6 (0.88%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.73%) Canon
14 5 (0.73%) HP
15 4 (0.58%) Dell
15 4 (0.58%) F5