Records Management Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Records Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Records Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 555 547
Rank change year-on-year +58 -8 +173
Permanent jobs citing Records Management 12 11 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.031% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.034% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile £34,507 £32,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £34,893 £37,125 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,536 £55,750 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -36.26% +3.72% +0.08%
75th Percentile - £62,188 £60,025
90th Percentile - £80,625 £62,816
UK median annual salary £54,987 £61,250 £55,050
% change year-on-year -10.23% +11.26% -5.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Records Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,283 31,985 30,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.49% 89.04% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,187 14,363 22,780
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Records Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Records Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Records Management job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Records Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Records Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Records Management

Records Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Records Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 5 - - 2
South West - 3 £35,536 - 1
North of England +5 2 - - 8
South East +33 1 - - 8
Midlands +21 1 - - 12
North West +16 1 - -
Yorkshire -11 1 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
Records Management
UK

Records Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) FileNet
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Local Government
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Information Governance Officer
1 5 (41.67%) Information Officer
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) ICT Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Governance Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Information Governance Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Information Governance Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Information Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Information Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Information Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
4 4 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) CAD
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) Information Management
6 2 (16.67%) Statistics
6 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 1 (8.33%) Agile
7 1 (8.33%) AI
7 1 (8.33%) Data Management
7 1 (8.33%) Project Management
7 1 (8.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) CISSP
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) IBM