Records Management Jobs

Records Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Records Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Records Management over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 844 898
Rank change year-on-year +145 +54 +214
Permanent jobs citing Records Management 15 67 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.067% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.079% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 6 44 36
10th Percentile £53,875 £37,000 £37,866
25th Percentile £58,063 £38,875 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £47,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +38.30% -21.99% +20.08%
75th Percentile £72,500 £58,906 £68,270
90th Percentile £81,900 £86,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,250 £45,802 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.63% -8.40% +32.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Records Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Records Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Records Management in the UK

Records Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Records Management.

Salary trend for Records Management in the UK

Records Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Records Management over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Records Management in the UK

Records Management
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +112 13 £63,250 +34.57% 56
UK excluding London +159 9 £55,250 +20.63% 39
South East +82 5 £55,250 +16.32% 12
London +97 4 £75,150 +59.89% 23
Work from Home +125 3 £63,250 +27.78% 23
South West +102 2 - - 3
North of England +48 2 - - 12
North West -2 2 - - 11

Records Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Unified Communications
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Games
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Information Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Information Security Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Product Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Risk Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Risk Management Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Security Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Governance Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Information Governance Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Information Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) EDI
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (13.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Data Protection
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (20.00%) Data Sharing
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (13.33%) Information Governance
5 2 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) ITGC
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) PERC
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Facebook
3 1 (6.67%) Sage