Knowledge Transfer Contracts in the West Midlands

Knowledge Transfer
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 100 103
Rank change year-on-year +22 +3 +46
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 19 11 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.41% 0.56% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.67% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 12
10th Percentile £375 £408 £390
25th Percentile £513 £411 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +6.17% +2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £659 £586
90th Percentile £620 £676 £625
England median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Knowledge Transfer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Transfer in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the West Midlands

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the West Midlands

Knowledge Transfer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +24 9 £550 -15.38% 8
Warwickshire +3 6 £588 -12.96% 9
Staffordshire +2 1 - - 8
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Knowledge Transfer
England

Knowledge Transfer
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Akamai
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (10.53%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) BGP
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
4 1 (5.26%) LAN
4 1 (5.26%) MPLS
4 1 (5.26%) OSPF
4 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.26%) Local Government
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Consultant
1 3 (15.79%) Developer
1 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Ruby Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Administrator
3 1 (5.26%) Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (5.26%) ICT Officer
3 1 (5.26%) ICT Support
3 1 (5.26%) ICT Support Officer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint Support
3 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.26%) Web Applications Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.79%) ITSM
4 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Change Management
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (10.53%) Data Security
5 2 (10.53%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Ruby
3 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CEH
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
2 2 (10.53%) CISM
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCIE
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) GIAC
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
1 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Proofpoint
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) F5
3 1 (5.26%) Imperva
3 1 (5.26%) Meraki
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam