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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 99 102
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 +43
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 19 10 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.37% 0.53% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.63% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 8
10th Percentile £388 £408 £336
25th Percentile £509 £409 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £539
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -21.11% +7.75%
75th Percentile £594 £544 £621
90th Percentile £619 £608 £648
England median daily rate £550 £540 £543
% change year-on-year +1.85% -0.60% +6.26%

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 1,228 1,586 2,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.66% 83.87% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 1,053 1,370
10th Percentile £193 £275 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £657 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +18.42% +12.34%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £49.38
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

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 16 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 16 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 +16 9 £550 -15.38% 7
Warwickshire +1 7 £500 - 11
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 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) 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 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 2 (10.53%) WAN
3 1 (5.26%) BGP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.26%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) MPLS
3 1 (5.26%) OSPF
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
3 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 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
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%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Administrator
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA Consultant
3 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Nutanix Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Service Operations Manager
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%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (21.05%) ITSM
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
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%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (10.53%) Security Operations
5 2 (10.53%) SIEM
5 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) Ruby
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) PL/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%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
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%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam