Hybrid/Remote EDMS Contract Job Trends

Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring EDMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 304 331
Rank change year-on-year -67 +27 +77
Contract jobs citing EDMS 8 2 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.059% 0.021% 0.008%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.33% 0.11% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £200 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% - -
75th Percentile £431 £663 -
90th Percentile £480 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £625 -
% change year-on-year -36.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £19.30
UK median hourly rate £13.10 - £30.00

All Database & BI Skills
Work from Home

EDMS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,433 1,884 2,515
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.03% 19.51% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,286 1,756
10th Percentile £360 £356 £345
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £663
90th Percentile £725 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 26 26
10th Percentile £16.49 £19.46 £18.90
25th Percentile £22.91 £27.51 £19.88
Median hourly rate £49.15 £64.00 £31.36
Median % change year-on-year -23.20% +104.11% -37.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.63 £41.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £87.50 £61.27
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%

EDMS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EDMS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

EDMS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

EDMS
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EDMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EDMS

EDMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing EDMS over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

EDMS daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

EDMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DMZ
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Document Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Information Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Document Controller
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) LIMS
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) AI
1 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Document Management
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Data Security
2 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Edge Computing
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) Information Management
3 1 (12.50%) QMS
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO 19650
2 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 2 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (12.50%) GAMP
3 1 (12.50%) GMP
3 1 (12.50%) GxP
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (12.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) OpenText
2 1 (12.50%) IFS
2 1 (12.50%) iManage