Technical Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £508, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 322 311
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 95 108 200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.48% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.51% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 81 135
10th Percentile £372 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £588
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.67% -4.59% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £28.25 - £61.94
25th Percentile £29.74 - £64.96
Median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% -7.14% -
75th Percentile - - £71.26
90th Percentile £45.86 - £72.02
UK median hourly rate £34.21 £67.50 £61.00
% change year-on-year -49.32% +10.66% +103.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Technical Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +10 28 £493 -1.50% 64
South East +7 24 £525 +2.94% 87
East of England +10 15 £525 -19.23% 47
North West +8 15 £493 -1.50% 37
Yorkshire +14 13 £506 +1.25% 20
West Midlands +15 11 £538 -2.27% 38
Midlands +11 11 £538 +2.38% 64
Scotland +54 9 £558 +11.50% 12
South West -7 7 £494 -8.14% 36
Wales +18 1 £500 -16.67% 7
Technical Manager
UK

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Technical Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 43 (45.26%) Project Management
2 25 (26.32%) Finance
3 24 (25.26%) Agile
4 23 (24.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
5 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
5 13 (13.68%) Project Delivery
6 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
7 10 (10.53%) PRINCE2
8 9 (9.47%) Programme Management
8 9 (9.47%) DV Cleared
9 8 (8.42%) Waterfall
9 8 (8.42%) Azure
9 8 (8.42%) SAP
9 8 (8.42%) ERP
9 8 (8.42%) Change Management
10 7 (7.37%) JIRA
11 6 (6.32%) Project Planning
11 6 (6.32%) Degree
11 6 (6.32%) Banking
11 6 (6.32%) PMP
11 6 (6.32%) PMI Certification
11 6 (6.32%) Resource Allocation
12 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
12 5 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (5.26%) Roadmaps
13 4 (4.21%) Budget Management
13 4 (4.21%) Collaborative Culture

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.05%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.05%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.42%) Azure
2 4 (4.21%) AWS
2 4 (4.21%) GCP
3 3 (3.16%) SaaS
4 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.11%) iPaaS
4 2 (2.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.05%) IaaS
5 1 (1.05%) PaaS
5 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.11%) Broadband
2 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.11%) Skype
2 2 (2.11%) VPN
3 1 (1.05%) LAN
3 1 (1.05%) NFC
3 1 (1.05%) RTP
3 1 (1.05%) SAN
3 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.05%) Metadata
2 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) JIRA
2 1 (1.05%) CA Gen
General
1 25 (26.32%) Finance
2 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.32%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Police
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.11%) Automotive
7 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) French Language
8 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Local Government
8 1 (1.05%) Military
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Public Speaking
8 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.05%) React
2 1 (1.05%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.05%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.16%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.11%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.11%) Digital TV
3 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.11%) NHS
3 2 (2.11%) STB
4 1 (1.05%) CCTV
4 1 (1.05%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.05%) EMV
4 1 (1.05%) FMCG
4 1 (1.05%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.05%) PMI
4 1 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.26%) Project Management
2 24 (25.26%) Agile
3 23 (24.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (13.68%) Project Delivery
5 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (10.53%) PRINCE2
7 9 (9.47%) Programme Management
8 8 (8.42%) Change Management
8 8 (8.42%) ERP
8 8 (8.42%) Waterfall
9 6 (6.32%) Project Planning
9 6 (6.32%) Resource Allocation
10 5 (5.26%) Roadmaps
11 4 (4.21%) Budget Management
11 4 (4.21%) Change Control
11 4 (4.21%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (4.21%) Data Analysis
11 4 (4.21%) Risk Management
11 4 (4.21%) Scrum
11 4 (4.21%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.11%) Perl
1 2 (2.11%) Python
1 2 (2.11%) SQL
2 1 (1.05%) C
2 1 (1.05%) Java
2 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.47%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Degree
3 6 (6.32%) PMI Certification
3 6 (6.32%) PMP
4 3 (3.16%) HNC
4 3 (3.16%) NVQ Level 4
5 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) APMG
6 1 (1.05%) APMP
6 1 (1.05%) CCNA
6 1 (1.05%) CCNP
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.05%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) GDPR
1 3 (3.16%) PMO
2 2 (2.11%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.11%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) RMADS
3 1 (1.05%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.05%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) SAP
2 4 (4.21%) Google
3 3 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.11%) Cisco
4 2 (2.11%) Guidewire
4 2 (2.11%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.11%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.05%) Adobe
5 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.05%) CA
5 1 (1.05%) Genesys
5 1 (1.05%) IFS
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow