Information Retrieval Contracts in England

Information Retrieval
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Information Retrieval skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Information Retrieval over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 634 786
Rank change year-on-year +93 +152 -127
Contract jobs citing Information Retrieval 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.004% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.005% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £633 - -
25th Percentile £644 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £913 - -
90th Percentile £1,025 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £650 £483
% change year-on-year +15.38% +34.72% -21.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.02 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.02 £13.91 -
% change year-on-year +43.93% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Information Retrieval 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Information Retrieval as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Information Retrieval in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Information Retrieval in England.

Daily rate trend for Information Retrieval in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Retrieval in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Information Retrieval in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Information Retrieval in England.

Hourly rate trend for Information Retrieval in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Information Retrieval within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
London - 7 £825 - 2
North of England - 1 £650 -
North West - 1 £650 -
South West - 1 £850 - 1
Information Retrieval
UK

Information Retrieval
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Speaking
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Lucene
2 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Blog
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Service
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Document Management
4 1 (11.11%) Logistics
4 1 (11.11%) Physics
4 1 (11.11%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Statistics
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) PhD
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) iManage
2 1 (11.11%) Intapp