Memory Management Contracts

Memory Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Memory Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Memory Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 551 642
Rank change year-on-year +43 +91 +96
Contract jobs citing Memory Management 14 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.059% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.068% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 24
10th Percentile £444 £463 £515
25th Percentile £475 £500 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £544 £618
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -11.98% -4.96%
75th Percentile £764 £588 £666
90th Percentile £809 £599 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £567
% change year-on-year -2.38% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Memory 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 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
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% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +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%

Memory Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Memory Management in the UK

Memory Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Memory Management in the UK

Memory Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Memory Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Memory Management in the UK

Memory Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Memory Management in the UK

Memory Management
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Memory Management within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +56 14 £563 +3.45% 45
London +37 12 £675 +22.73% 25
Work from Home +40 2 £550 -1.12% 28
UK excluding London +37 2 £513 -2.38% 33
South East +42 1 £475 -13.64% 17
East of England - 1 £550 - 5

Memory 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 9 (64.29%) Apache Spark
2 8 (57.14%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) NFC
1 1 (7.14%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Big Data
1 9 (64.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 8 (57.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.14%) Mocha
3 1 (7.14%) Valgrind
General
1 10 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Apache Spark Developer
2 8 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 6 (42.86%) Senior
4 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Systems Developer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Development Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Akka.NET
2 1 (7.14%) Express.js
2 1 (7.14%) Jest
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) JWT
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Nunjucks
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) Reactive Extensions
2 1 (7.14%) ReactiveX
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Distributed Computing
1 9 (64.29%) Market Risk
2 8 (57.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.14%) Fixed Income
4 1 (7.14%) Legacy Code
4 1 (7.14%) PCIe
4 1 (7.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 10 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (64.29%) Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Code Quality
2 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (64.29%) Regulatory Compliance
2 9 (64.29%) Risk Analytics
2 9 (64.29%) Risk Management
3 8 (57.14%) Batch Processing
3 8 (57.14%) Greeks
3 8 (57.14%) Mathematics
4 7 (50.00%) Stress Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Cryptography
7 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Statistical Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
1 1 (7.14%) KVM
1 1 (7.14%) QEMU
1 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform