IT Manager Contracts in Cheshire

IT Manager
North West > Cheshire

The median IT Manager daily rate in Cheshire is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 55 49
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -6
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 7 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.39% 1.29% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.46% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile £452 £418 £347
25th Percentile £454 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £568 - £481
90th Percentile £572 £465 £515
North West median daily rate £488 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +2.63% +1.33% +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
North West median hourly rate - - £44.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 472 481 492
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 88.91% 94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 330 278
10th Percentile £275 £262 £184
25th Percentile £380 £392 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £486 £438
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +11.11% +0.34%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £629 £651 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £18.82 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £27.98 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +14.20% +36.87%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £33.83
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
% change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in Cheshire

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in Cheshire

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in Cheshire

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Knutsford - 3 £560 -
Warrington - 1 £450 - 2
IT Manager
North West

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 across the Cheshire region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
3 1 (14.29%) Kronos
3 1 (14.29%) Information Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) WFM
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Budgeting
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Kronos
1 1 (14.29%) SAP