Knowledge Transfer Contracts

Knowledge Transfer
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Knowledge Transfer skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 285 287 367
Rank change year-on-year +2 +80 -17
Contract jobs citing Knowledge Transfer 358 521 641
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.94% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.05% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 358 437
10th Percentile £375 £311 £350
25th Percentile £461 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £729 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £512 £500
% change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 13
10th Percentile £16.20 £12.92 £10.69
25th Percentile £18.87 £13.16 £11.17
Median hourly rate £24.26 £17.00 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year +42.68% +8.01% -77.81%
75th Percentile £37.59 £21.05 £17.61
90th Percentile £45.03 £32.24 £18.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.33 £17.00 £15.74
% change year-on-year +13.72% +8.01% -76.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Knowledge Transfer is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Knowledge Transfer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Knowledge Transfer as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Knowledge Transfer.

Daily rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Knowledge Transfer.

Hourly rate trend for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Knowledge Transfer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Knowledge Transfer in the UK

Knowledge Transfer
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Knowledge Transfer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +5 289 £544 +1.21% 141
UK excluding London -27 170 £500 -2.34% 94
Work from Home +39 132 £525 - 185
London +42 131 £600 +11.63% 49
North of England -3 40 £500 - 21
South West +4 36 £475 -24.00% 12
Scotland +29 28 £525 +5.00% 11
South East -32 26 £544 +1.21% 24
East of England +16 22 £600 +100.00% 5
North West -15 19 £550 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire +7 17 £450 -16.28% 5
Midlands +12 16 £488 +30.00% 20
East Midlands +17 11 £488 +136.36% 5
West Midlands +2 5 £531 -7.61% 15
Wales +15 2 £800 +68.42%
North East +12 2 - - 4
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 3

Knowledge Transfer
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 20 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.75%) Confluence
3 11 (3.07%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (0.84%) SAS
5 2 (0.56%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.51%) Chatbot
4 8 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (6.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.23%) Workday HCM
3 7 (1.96%) SAP PS
4 6 (1.68%) SAP SD
5 5 (1.40%) SAP CO
5 5 (1.40%) SAP FI
5 5 (1.40%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.84%) SAP MII
6 3 (0.84%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.84%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.56%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.56%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.56%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.28%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 76 (21.23%) Azure
2 30 (8.38%) AWS
3 23 (6.42%) GCP
4 20 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (4.47%) Power Platform
6 14 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.07%) OCI
8 10 (2.79%) Azure Stack
9 9 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.51%) Twilio
10 7 (1.96%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.40%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.40%) SaaS
12 4 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
13 3 (0.84%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.84%) Azure Storage
14 2 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.10%) Firewall
2 18 (5.03%) VoIP
3 15 (4.19%) SD-WAN
3 15 (4.19%) WAN
4 14 (3.91%) CTI
5 12 (3.35%) BGP
6 7 (1.96%) WLAN
7 6 (1.68%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (1.68%) DNS
7 6 (1.68%) LAN
8 4 (1.12%) DHCP
8 4 (1.12%) InfiniBand
8 4 (1.12%) Network Security
8 4 (1.12%) Wireless
9 3 (0.84%) VPN
10 2 (0.56%) IP Telephony
10 2 (0.56%) PBX
10 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.56%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.63%) Ingres
2 11 (3.07%) Power BI
3 9 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.12%) Big Data
4 4 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.84%) Metadata
5 3 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.56%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.56%) Tableau
7 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.28%) Parquet
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.87%) JIRA
2 6 (1.68%) MLflow
3 4 (1.12%) Mocha
3 4 (1.12%) Postman
4 3 (0.84%) ChangeMan
4 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.84%) JMeter
4 3 (0.84%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.56%) Git
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.56%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.56%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 100 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 92 (25.70%) Finance
3 51 (14.25%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.70%) Retail
6 23 (6.42%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (5.03%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.63%) Banking
9 13 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.35%) Marketing
11 8 (2.23%) Electronics
11 8 (2.23%) Law
12 7 (1.96%) Back Office
12 7 (1.96%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.68%) Front Office
13 6 (1.68%) Local Government
14 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.40%) Legal
15 2 (0.56%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 48 (13.41%) Consultant
2 41 (11.45%) Analyst
3 40 (11.17%) Developer
4 38 (10.61%) Senior
5 34 (9.50%) Architect
6 28 (7.82%) Lead
7 18 (5.03%) SAP Consultant
7 18 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.75%) Project Manager
9 16 (4.47%) DBA
10 15 (4.19%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.63%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.63%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.63%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.07%) Ingres DBA
13 10 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
14 9 (2.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (2.23%) .NET Developer
15 8 (2.23%) Administrator
15 8 (2.23%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.19%) .NET
2 14 (3.91%) React
3 11 (3.07%) Web Services
4 9 (2.51%) Middleware
5 7 (1.96%) REST
6 6 (1.68%) .NET Framework
6 6 (1.68%) HTML
6 6 (1.68%) ISPF
6 6 (1.68%) XML
7 5 (1.40%) CSS
7 5 (1.40%) Spring
8 4 (1.12%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.12%) FpML
8 4 (1.12%) Jest
8 4 (1.12%) Redux
9 3 (0.84%) JSON
9 3 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.84%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.84%) Swagger
10 2 (0.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.54%) Product Ownership
2 21 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.75%) Management Information System
4 15 (4.19%) Private Cloud
5 14 (3.91%) IVR
6 13 (3.63%) PKI
7 11 (3.07%) Operational Technology
8 9 (2.51%) Legacy Applications
8 9 (2.51%) Wiki
9 6 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.68%) Derivative
9 6 (1.68%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.12%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.12%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.84%) FMCG
13 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.56%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.94%) Windows
2 12 (3.35%) Linux
3 8 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.68%) zOS
5 5 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.12%) AIX
6 4 (1.12%) Unix
7 2 (0.56%) Android
7 2 (0.56%) Solaris
7 2 (0.56%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (19.27%) Agile
2 53 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (14.25%) Migration
3 51 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (10.89%) DevOps
5 37 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (9.78%) Project Management
7 34 (9.50%) ITIL
8 29 (8.10%) Analytics
8 29 (8.10%) Roadmaps
9 26 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (7.26%) User Acceptance Testing
10 25 (6.98%) Computer Science
10 25 (6.98%) Project Delivery
11 24 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (6.42%) Data Migration
12 23 (6.42%) Mentoring
13 21 (5.87%) CRM
13 21 (5.87%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (5.31%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.19%) Java
2 13 (3.63%) SQL
3 11 (3.07%) Python
4 8 (2.23%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.96%) PowerShell
5 7 (1.96%) Scala
6 6 (1.68%) JCL
6 6 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.40%) ABAP
7 5 (1.40%) C#
7 5 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.84%) REXX
8 3 (0.84%) VBA
9 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 59 (16.48%) Degree
2 50 (13.97%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.59%) Master's Degree
6 19 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.35%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.07%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.68%) SAP Certification
13 4 (1.12%) CCNP
13 4 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.56%) CCIE
14 2 (0.56%) CCNA
14 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.56%) PMP
15 1 (0.28%) CIPD
15 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.87%) QA
2 12 (3.35%) PCI DSS
3 11 (3.07%) GDPR
3 11 (3.07%) Government Security Classifications
3 11 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.79%) SLA
5 9 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 8 (2.23%) HIPAA
6 8 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (2.23%) SOC 2
7 6 (1.68%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.12%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (1.12%) PMO
9 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 2 (0.56%) NIST
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.68%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) Docker
5 2 (0.56%) Firmware
5 2 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.68%) Control-M
2 6 (1.68%) Endace
3 5 (1.40%) SCCM
4 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.84%) Ansible
6 2 (0.56%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.56%) Terraform
7 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.28%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.28%) PowerBroker
7 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 81 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 59 (16.48%) SAP
3 28 (7.82%) Cisco
4 23 (6.42%) Google
4 23 (6.42%) Oracle
5 14 (3.91%) Genesys
6 12 (3.35%) Atlassian
7 11 (3.07%) Ariba
7 11 (3.07%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.79%) VMware
9 9 (2.51%) Avaya
9 9 (2.51%) Workday
10 8 (2.23%) CA
10 8 (2.23%) Databricks
10 8 (2.23%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.23%) Palo Alto
10 8 (2.23%) Yardi
11 7 (1.96%) F5
11 7 (1.96%) Juniper
11 7 (1.96%) Salesforce