The state of the UK KNowledge Management job market

Courtesy of IT Jobswatch, UK, here is a summary of the state of UK IT-related KM job market

Basically, the job market is much the same or slightly better than last year, and a bit worse than it was 2 years ago. Median UK salaries seem pretty constant. These figures were copied in December

Knowledge Management UK
Location	6 months to 12 Dec 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	796	865	755
Rank change year-on-year	+69	-110	+54
Permanent jobs citing Knowledge Management	398	371	590
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.22%	0.20%	0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologiescategory	0.25%	0.22%	0.31%
Number of salaries quoted	228	253	459
UK median annual salary	£49,500	£45,000	£50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+10.00%	-10.00%	-16.67%
10th Percentile	£26,000	£26,400	£26,650
90th Percentile	£87,375	£82,500	£81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary	£35,500	£37,500	£47,500
% change year-on-year	-5.33%	-21.05%	-13.64%

When you delve into the details a bit, it seems as if they are counting every job where “knowledge management” is mentioned in the job description. Therefore these are not all KM jobs, but have some relation to KM (for example analysts, part of whose role is to input content into a Knowledge management system).

The same figures are shown below for Knowledge Manager jobs, sampled last week.

Knowledge Manager UK
Location	6 months to 3 Jan 2018	Same period 2017	Same period 2016
Rank	1163	1183	1269
Rank change year-on-year	+20	+86	+37
Permanent jobs requiring a Knowledge Manager	11	6	17
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.006%	0.003%	0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category	0.007%	0.003%	0.008%
Number of salaries quoted	4	2	10
UK median annual salary	£65,000	£36,781	£55,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	+76.72%	-33.73%	+70.77%
10th Percentile	£39,450	£33,128	£37,125
90th Percentile	£68,500	£39,459	£71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary	£47,000	–	£37,500

Again there is little significant change over the past 2 years, although the sample size is small. These “Knowledge Manger” jobs are all proper KM jobs.

View Original Source (nickmilton.com) Here.

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