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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 178 176
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 +88
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 464 819 1,424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 1.44% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.52% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 625 1,051
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.51%
75th Percentile £622 £613 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.25% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 17
10th Percentile - £35.00 £18.64
25th Percentile £23.63 £50.94 £22.75
Median hourly rate £31.84 £62.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% +131.48% -15.11%
75th Percentile £47.94 £69.38 £43.80
90th Percentile £59.38 £84.00 £62.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.28 £50.00 £26.70
% change year-on-year -49.45% +87.28% -18.13%

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -25 402 £525 -0.94% 352
UK excluding London -29 254 £506 +1.25% 283
Work from Home -1 192 £550 +7.84% 132
London +3 177 £575 - 99
Midlands +3 58 £523 +4.50% 59
South East +1 57 £525 +2.44% 83
South West +15 53 £513 +6.49% 22
West Midlands +4 48 £523 +4.50% 42
North of England -40 42 £450 -10.00% 83
Scotland +16 35 £475 -5.00% 16
North West -22 22 £475 +2.70% 37
Yorkshire -29 14 £450 -18.18% 41
East Midlands +9 9 £500 - 17
North East +17 5 £525 +16.67% 9
East of England -22 5 £450 -5.26% 14
Wales +19 4 £500 +53.85% 13

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 158 (34.05%) Project Management
2 142 (30.60%) Finance
3 107 (23.06%) Social Skills
4 96 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 93 (20.04%) Agile
6 71 (15.30%) Change Management
7 60 (12.93%) PRINCE2
8 59 (12.72%) Project Delivery
9 52 (11.21%) ITIL
10 45 (9.70%) Banking
11 41 (8.84%) Service Delivery
12 40 (8.62%) Service Management
12 40 (8.62%) Security Cleared
12 40 (8.62%) Waterfall
12 40 (8.62%) Public Sector
13 38 (8.19%) Migration
14 37 (7.97%) Microsoft
14 37 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (7.76%) Decision-Making
15 36 (7.76%) Azure
16 34 (7.33%) SC Cleared
17 33 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (7.11%) Legal
18 32 (6.90%) Degree
19 30 (6.47%) Risk Management
19 30 (6.47%) ITSM
19 30 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
20 27 (5.82%) Budget Management
21 26 (5.60%) PMI Certification
22 25 (5.39%) PMP

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 22 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.51%) Confluence
2 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Appian
4 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.22%) Moodle
Applications
1 9 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.29%) Photoshop
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.22%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 36 (7.76%) Azure
2 33 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (4.53%) SaaS
4 11 (2.37%) AWS
5 8 (1.72%) WhatsApp
6 7 (1.51%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.51%) Slack
7 6 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.29%) Canva
8 3 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.43%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.22%) IaaS
10 1 (0.22%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.22%) PaaS
10 1 (0.22%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.37%) Intranet
2 6 (1.29%) WAN
3 5 (1.08%) LAN
4 4 (0.86%) Firewall
5 3 (0.65%) Wireless
6 2 (0.43%) Broadband
6 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.22%) Internet
7 1 (0.22%) Network Security
7 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.22%) Skype
7 1 (0.22%) SNMP
7 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.22%) VLAN
7 1 (0.22%) VoIP
7 1 (0.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (1.29%) Power BI
2 2 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (0.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.43%) Tableau
3 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.22%) Mixpanel
3 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (3.66%) JIRA
2 3 (0.65%) Hudson
General
1 142 (30.60%) Finance
2 107 (23.06%) Social Skills
3 45 (9.70%) Banking
4 40 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.11%) Legal
6 16 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.02%) Law
9 13 (2.80%) Local Government
9 13 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.16%) Retail
12 10 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.29%) Military
14 5 (1.08%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.08%) Automotive
14 5 (1.08%) Marketing
14 5 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.22%) ADO
1 1 (0.22%) Express.js
1 1 (0.22%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.22%) Middleware
1 1 (0.22%) Node.js
1 1 (0.22%) React
1 1 (0.22%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.66%) Data Centre
2 11 (2.37%) Management Information System
2 11 (2.37%) Onboarding
3 9 (1.94%) FMCG
4 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (1.51%) PMI
5 7 (1.51%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.29%) NHS
6 6 (1.29%) Video Editing
7 5 (1.08%) CMDB
8 4 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.65%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.65%) Life Science
9 3 (0.65%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.43%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.43%) LIMS
10 2 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.22%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.22%) Tandem
11 1 (0.22%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.23%) Windows
2 8 (1.72%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.86%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.65%) Unix
5 1 (0.22%) Linux
5 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.22%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.22%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (34.05%) Project Management
2 96 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 93 (20.04%) Agile
4 71 (15.30%) Change Management
5 60 (12.93%) PRINCE2
6 59 (12.72%) Project Delivery
7 52 (11.21%) ITIL
8 41 (8.84%) Service Delivery
9 40 (8.62%) Service Management
9 40 (8.62%) Waterfall
10 38 (8.19%) Migration
11 37 (7.97%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (7.76%) Decision-Making
13 30 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (6.47%) ITSM
13 30 (6.47%) Risk Management
14 27 (5.82%) Budget Management
15 25 (5.39%) ERP
16 21 (4.53%) People Management
17 20 (4.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.72%) Swift
2 2 (0.43%) SQL
3 1 (0.22%) C#
3 1 (0.22%) Java
3 1 (0.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 34 (7.33%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.90%) Degree
4 26 (5.60%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.39%) PMP
6 11 (2.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 8 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.51%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 5 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.08%) 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 (0.22%) CAPM
11 1 (0.22%) CISM
11 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.23%) PMO
2 12 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.37%) SLA
4 8 (1.72%) GDPR
5 7 (1.51%) NIST
6 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.86%) COBIT
7 4 (0.86%) QA
8 3 (0.65%) GxP
8 3 (0.65%) 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%) EMIR
9 2 (0.43%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) GAMP
10 1 (0.22%) GMP
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.22%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (0.22%) Avamar
1 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.22%) Matomo
1 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.22%) SafeCom
1 1 (0.22%) SCCM
1 1 (0.22%) Terraform
1 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (7.97%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.96%) SAP
3 11 (2.37%) Cisco
3 11 (2.37%) Oracle
4 8 (1.72%) Okta
4 8 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.51%) Remedy
6 5 (1.08%) Adobe
6 5 (1.08%) VMware
7 4 (0.86%) Ariba
7 4 (0.86%) Citrix
8 3 (0.65%) BMC
8 3 (0.65%) Cadence
8 3 (0.65%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.65%) Siemens
9 2 (0.43%) Aruba
9 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.43%) Civica
9 2 (0.43%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.43%) Workday