Knowledge Transfer Job Trends

Knowledge Transfer
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Knowledge Transfer skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 555 531
Rank change year-on-year +45 -24 -83
Permanent jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 314 125 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.28% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 151 91 134
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £56,000 £39,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +46.67% -10.00% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Knowledge Transfer 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Knowledge Transfer relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Knowledge Transfer job vacancy trend in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Knowledge Transfer.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Transfer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Transfer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England +25 279 £70,000 +24.44% 642
UK excluding London +12 216 £66,000 +46.67% 399
London -21 82 £86,000 +4.24% 291
North of England -19 69 £70,000 +12.00% 106
Work from Home +2 68 £59,000 -12.59% 324
South East -38 52 £51,000 +22.89% 106
South West -45 36 £70,000 +33.33% 36
North East -35 31 £80,500 +67.71% 32
North West -4 27 £72,500 +20.83% 56
Midlands -32 19 £50,000 +96.08% 42
West Midlands -28 16 £47,500 - 29
East of England - 16 £60,100 - 46
Wales - 14 £72,500 - 5
Yorkshire -30 11 £44,750 -29.80% 18
Scotland - 9 £75,000 - 46
East Midlands -34 3 £75,000 +194.12% 13
Northern Ireland -81 1 £46,000 -22.03% 15

Knowledge Transfer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 15 (4.78%) Confluence
2 11 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.23%) CMS
4 6 (1.91%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.64%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 27 (8.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.91%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (1.91%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (1.91%) SAP SD
3 5 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.59%) SAP GTS
3 5 (1.59%) SAP Travel Management
3 5 (1.59%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.27%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.64%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.64%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 124 (39.49%) Azure
2 84 (26.75%) AWS
3 36 (11.46%) GCP
4 34 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (10.51%) Entra ID
6 16 (5.10%) SaaS
7 13 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.14%) Power Platform
8 11 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (3.50%) GitHub
9 8 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.55%) Serverless
10 7 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.23%) OCI
11 6 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (1.91%) IaaS
12 5 (1.59%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.59%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.27%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.64%) Firewall
2 20 (6.37%) DNS
3 19 (6.05%) VLAN
4 17 (5.41%) DHCP
5 16 (5.10%) WAN
6 14 (4.46%) VPN
7 13 (4.14%) LAN
7 13 (4.14%) TCP/IP
8 12 (3.82%) Internet
9 9 (2.87%) BGP
9 9 (2.87%) Network Security
10 8 (2.55%) SNMP
10 8 (2.55%) Wireless
11 6 (1.91%) IPFIX
11 6 (1.91%) OSPF
12 5 (1.59%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (0.96%) IPsec
13 3 (0.96%) NAS
13 3 (0.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.87%) SAP HANA
3 7 (2.23%) BusinessObjects
3 7 (2.23%) Geospatial Data
3 7 (2.23%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.59%) Metadata
5 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.27%) Power BI
7 3 (0.96%) InfluxDB
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.96%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.64%) GIS
8 2 (0.64%) MySQL
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.64%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (7.96%) JIRA
2 23 (7.32%) Git
3 11 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.23%) Moq
4 7 (2.23%) MSI
5 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.64%) Flyway
6 2 (0.64%) GitLab
6 2 (0.64%) Hudson
6 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) Mocha
7 1 (0.32%) RSpec
General
1 124 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.89%) Finance
3 69 (21.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (21.66%) Public Sector
5 60 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (6.05%) Manufacturing
7 18 (5.73%) Aerospace
7 18 (5.73%) Aviation
8 15 (4.78%) Military
8 15 (4.78%) Retail
9 14 (4.46%) Law
10 11 (3.50%) Banking
11 9 (2.87%) Marketing
11 9 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.55%) Electronics
13 7 (2.23%) Automotive
14 6 (1.91%) Billing
14 6 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.59%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 64 (20.38%) Senior
2 57 (18.15%) Lead
3 51 (16.24%) Consultant
4 43 (13.69%) Architect
5 26 (8.28%) Developer
6 19 (6.05%) Analyst
7 17 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (4.78%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.14%) Senior Architect
10 12 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.82%) Technical Leader
11 11 (3.50%) Lead Architect
11 11 (3.50%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.18%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.18%) SAP Consultant
12 10 (3.18%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.55%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.60%) REST
2 24 (7.64%) .NET
3 21 (6.69%) Terraform
4 19 (6.05%) LangChain
4 19 (6.05%) React
5 18 (5.73%) .NET Framework
6 17 (5.41%) LlamaIndex
7 16 (5.10%) Middleware
8 14 (4.46%) Web Services
9 11 (3.50%) RESTful
10 10 (3.18%) Node.js
11 9 (2.87%) HTML
11 9 (2.87%) XML
12 8 (2.55%) CSS
12 8 (2.55%) CSS3
12 8 (2.55%) HTML5
12 8 (2.55%) LDAP
12 8 (2.55%) SailPoint
12 8 (2.55%) Spring
12 8 (2.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 89 (28.34%) Onboarding
2 33 (10.51%) Cloud Native
3 32 (10.19%) Management Information System
4 28 (8.92%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (7.32%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.50%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.50%) Replication
7 10 (3.18%) Blog
7 10 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.87%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.87%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.87%) Robotics
8 9 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.55%) Clustering
10 7 (2.23%) Acoustics
10 7 (2.23%) Fat Client
10 7 (2.23%) PKI
10 7 (2.23%) PMI
10 7 (2.23%) Thin Client
11 6 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.88%) Windows
2 25 (7.96%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.37%) Linux
4 7 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (2.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (1.91%) Unix
6 4 (1.27%) AIX
7 3 (0.96%) Android
7 3 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (31.21%) AI
2 97 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
3 70 (22.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 67 (21.34%) Migration
6 66 (21.02%) Agile
7 62 (19.75%) CI/CD
8 58 (18.47%) Mentoring
9 57 (18.15%) DevOps
10 53 (16.88%) Technical Leadership
11 51 (16.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 50 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 48 (15.29%) Observability
14 42 (13.38%) Project Delivery
14 42 (13.38%) Roadmaps
15 41 (13.06%) Runbook
16 37 (11.78%) Analytics
17 36 (11.46%) ERP
17 36 (11.46%) Validation
18 33 (10.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (19.75%) Python
2 31 (9.87%) SQL
3 28 (8.92%) JavaScript
4 26 (8.28%) PowerShell
5 24 (7.64%) C#
6 14 (4.46%) Java
6 14 (4.46%) TypeScript
7 12 (3.82%) C++
8 10 (3.18%) Bicep
9 8 (2.55%) Ruby
10 7 (2.23%) Bash
10 7 (2.23%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.23%) XAML
11 3 (0.96%) ABAP
12 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.64%) Go
12 2 (0.64%) R
12 2 (0.64%) Scala
12 2 (0.64%) SOQL
12 2 (0.64%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 68 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 56 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 53 (16.88%) Degree
4 33 (10.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (7.96%) AWS Certification
6 24 (7.64%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.14%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.18%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.91%) CCNP
11 6 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.91%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.59%) A+ Certification
12 5 (1.59%) CISSP
12 5 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (1.27%) PMP
14 3 (0.96%) CIMA
14 3 (0.96%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.32%) QA
2 18 (5.73%) NCSC
2 18 (5.73%) SLA
3 13 (4.14%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.82%) NIST
5 11 (3.50%) WCAG
6 10 (3.18%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.27%) PMO
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.96%) GDPR
10 2 (0.64%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.64%) GxP
10 2 (0.64%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.32%) JSP 440
System Software
1 44 (14.01%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.46%) Docker
2 14 (4.46%) Hyper-V
3 13 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.23%) NDS
5 5 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.27%) vSphere
7 2 (0.64%) IAG
7 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.32%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.32%) Firmware
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.91%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (1.91%) Grafana
3 6 (1.91%) Nagios
3 6 (1.91%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.59%) Ansible
4 5 (1.59%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.96%) Autotask
6 3 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.96%) SCCM
6 3 (0.96%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.32%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 81 (25.80%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.42%) SAP
3 30 (9.55%) Oracle
4 16 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.78%) VMware
6 11 (3.50%) Cisco
7 9 (2.87%) Google
7 9 (2.87%) YouTube
8 8 (2.55%) Okta
9 7 (2.23%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.23%) Datto
9 7 (2.23%) ForgeRock
9 7 (2.23%) NetIQ
9 7 (2.23%) OpenText
9 7 (2.23%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.91%) Aruba
10 6 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.91%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.91%) Workday
11 5 (1.59%) Draytek