Records Management Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Records Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Records Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 101 108
Rank change year-on-year -27 +7 +53
Contract jobs citing Records Management 14 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.61% 0.38% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.44% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £375
75th Percentile £659 - £388
90th Percentile £719 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -4.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Records 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,957 1,356 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.61% 86.92% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,238 845 999
10th Percentile £263 £223 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 46 62
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.97
25th Percentile £16.22 £16.38 £17.94
Median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.34
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -23.80% +63.62%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.70 £50.94
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Records Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Records Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Records Management job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Records Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Records Management

Records Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Records Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Records Management in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Records Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Records Management

Records Management
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 Records Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 - 6 £625 -
Warwickshire - 5 £625 - 13
Records Management
England

Records Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
1 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
1 5 (35.71%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Data Mining
1 5 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Police
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Azure Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Business Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architect
2 5 (35.71%) TOGAF Architect
2 5 (35.71%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
3 3 (21.43%) DBA
3 3 (21.43%) SQL DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Analytics
2 5 (35.71%) AI
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analysis
2 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (35.71%) TOGAF
2 5 (35.71%) Zachman Framework
3 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Information Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Information Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Data Management
6 1 (7.14%) Data Mapping
6 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Virgin Media