IT Manager Contracts

IT Manager
UK

The median IT Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 180 178
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 +85
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 467 831 1,417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.46% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.54% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 632 1,049
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +0.19% +15.56%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 16
10th Percentile - £47.75 £18.45
25th Percentile £23.63 £58.75 £22.51
Median hourly rate £31.84 £62.50 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% +103.42% -3.40%
75th Percentile £47.94 £73.75 £45.91
90th Percentile £59.38 £84.50 £62.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.28 £65.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -61.12% +140.74% -17.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,476 54,050 83,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,679 37,739 58,629
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,507 2,053
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £76.10 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Manager.

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Manager.

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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 -42 402 £525 - 326
UK excluding London -39 255 £514 +2.80% 265
Work from Home +12 192 £550 +7.84% 124
London +15 179 £575 +1.10% 74
Midlands +6 57 £525 +5.00% 55
South East -17 56 £525 +2.94% 71
South West +24 52 £513 +6.49% 20
West Midlands -3 47 £525 +5.00% 35
North of England -49 42 £455 -9.00% 84
Scotland +27 38 £475 -5.00% 18
North West -24 22 £525 +13.51% 40
Yorkshire -25 14 £450 -18.18% 39
East Midlands +9 9 £500 - 20
East of England -13 6 £475 - 15
North East +16 5 £525 +16.67% 11
Wales +24 4 £500 +53.85% 10

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, IT 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 featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 161 (34.48%) Project Management
2 142 (30.41%) Finance
3 108 (23.13%) Social Skills
4 100 (21.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 96 (20.56%) Agile
6 73 (15.63%) Change Management
7 59 (12.63%) Project Delivery
8 58 (12.42%) PRINCE2
9 51 (10.92%) ITIL
10 46 (9.85%) Banking
11 44 (9.42%) Waterfall
12 40 (8.57%) Service Delivery
12 40 (8.57%) Security Cleared
12 40 (8.57%) Public Sector
13 39 (8.35%) Service Management
14 37 (7.92%) Migration
14 37 (7.92%) Microsoft
15 36 (7.71%) Azure
15 36 (7.71%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (7.49%) Decision-Making
17 34 (7.28%) SC Cleared
18 33 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
19 32 (6.85%) Legal
19 32 (6.85%) Degree
20 30 (6.42%) Risk Management
20 30 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
21 29 (6.21%) ITSM
22 27 (5.78%) Budget Management
23 25 (5.35%) PMI Certification
23 25 (5.35%) ERP

IT Manager Skill Set
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 21 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.50%) Confluence
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.21%) Appian
4 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.21%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.28%) Photoshop
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.07%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.21%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 36 (7.71%) Azure
2 33 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.50%) SaaS
4 11 (2.36%) AWS
5 8 (1.71%) WhatsApp
6 7 (1.50%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.50%) Slack
7 6 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.28%) Canva
8 2 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.43%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.21%) IaaS
9 1 (0.21%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.21%) PaaS
9 1 (0.21%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.36%) Intranet
2 6 (1.28%) WAN
3 5 (1.07%) Firewall
3 5 (1.07%) LAN
4 3 (0.64%) Wireless
5 2 (0.43%) Broadband
5 2 (0.43%) VLAN
5 2 (0.43%) VoIP
5 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.21%) Internet
6 1 (0.21%) Network Security
6 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.21%) Skype
6 1 (0.21%) SNMP
6 1 (0.21%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.21%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (1.28%) Power BI
2 3 (0.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.43%) Tableau
4 1 (0.21%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.21%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.21%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (3.64%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) Hudson
General
1 142 (30.41%) Finance
2 108 (23.13%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.85%) Banking
4 40 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.85%) Legal
6 19 (4.07%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.21%) Law
8 14 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.78%) Local Government
10 12 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.14%) Retail
12 10 (2.14%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.28%) Military
14 5 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.07%) Automotive
14 5 (1.07%) Marketing
14 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.21%) ADO
1 1 (0.21%) Express.js
1 1 (0.21%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.21%) Middleware
1 1 (0.21%) Node.js
1 1 (0.21%) React
1 1 (0.21%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.64%) Data Centre
2 12 (2.57%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.36%) Onboarding
4 9 (1.93%) FMCG
5 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.50%) PMI
5 7 (1.50%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.28%) NHS
6 6 (1.28%) Video Editing
7 5 (1.07%) CMDB
8 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.64%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.64%) Life Science
9 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.43%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.43%) LIMS
10 2 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.21%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.21%) Tandem
11 1 (0.21%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.21%) Windows
2 8 (1.71%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.64%) Unix
4 3 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.21%) Linux
5 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.21%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (34.48%) Project Management
2 100 (21.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (20.56%) Agile
4 73 (15.63%) Change Management
5 59 (12.63%) Project Delivery
6 58 (12.42%) PRINCE2
7 51 (10.92%) ITIL
8 44 (9.42%) Waterfall
9 40 (8.57%) Service Delivery
10 39 (8.35%) Service Management
11 37 (7.92%) Migration
12 36 (7.71%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (7.49%) Decision-Making
14 30 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (6.42%) Risk Management
15 29 (6.21%) ITSM
16 27 (5.78%) Budget Management
17 25 (5.35%) ERP
18 21 (4.50%) People Management
19 20 (4.28%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.71%) Swift
2 2 (0.43%) SQL
3 1 (0.21%) C#
3 1 (0.21%) Java
3 1 (0.21%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 34 (7.28%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.85%) Degree
4 25 (5.35%) PMI Certification
5 24 (5.14%) PMP
6 11 (2.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 8 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CCNA
10 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.43%) ISEB
10 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CISM
11 1 (0.21%) CISSP
11 1 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.21%) PMO
2 12 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.14%) SLA
4 8 (1.71%) GDPR
5 7 (1.50%) NIST
6 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.86%) COBIT
7 4 (0.86%) QA
8 3 (0.64%) EMIR
8 3 (0.64%) GxP
8 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.43%) Basel III
9 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.43%) GRC
9 2 (0.43%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.21%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (0.21%) Avamar
1 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.21%) Matomo
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.21%) SafeCom
1 1 (0.21%) SCCM
1 1 (0.21%) Terraform
1 1 (0.21%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.71%) SAP
3 12 (2.57%) Cisco
4 10 (2.14%) Oracle
5 8 (1.71%) Okta
6 7 (1.50%) Remedy
6 7 (1.50%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.07%) Adobe
7 5 (1.07%) VMware
8 4 (0.86%) Ariba
8 4 (0.86%) Citrix
9 3 (0.64%) BMC
9 3 (0.64%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.64%) Siemens
10 2 (0.43%) Aruba
10 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.43%) Cadence
10 2 (0.43%) Civica
10 2 (0.43%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.43%) Salesforce