Technical Manager Contracts in London

Technical Manager
England > London

The median Technical Manager daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 289 286
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 108 212 362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.81% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.85% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 148 246
10th Percentile £348 £408 £456
25th Percentile £495 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +15.66%
75th Percentile £730 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £769
England median daily rate £546 £525 £569
% change year-on-year +4.05% -7.65% +13.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £33.00
25th Percentile £30.25 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £70.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +66.67% +52.73%
75th Percentile £32.75 - £57.63
90th Percentile - - £62.81
England median hourly rate £34.21 £70.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -51.13% +19.15% +113.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,495 25,012 36,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.24% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,143 26,715
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £684
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 281 442
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £80.00 £68.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +31 17 £575 - 7
South London +9 3 - - 1
East London -5 2 £688 +71.88% 1
Technical Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 London region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 43 (39.81%) Project Management
2 39 (36.11%) Agile
3 35 (32.41%) Finance
4 25 (23.15%) Social Skills
5 21 (19.44%) Project Delivery
6 18 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (14.81%) Banking
8 15 (13.89%) Change Management
8 15 (13.89%) Migration
8 15 (13.89%) Roadmaps
9 14 (12.96%) Scrum
10 13 (12.04%) Programme Management
10 13 (12.04%) Azure
11 11 (10.19%) Risk Management
12 10 (9.26%) SQL
12 10 (9.26%) Microsoft
12 10 (9.26%) Waterfall
12 10 (9.26%) Data Centre
12 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
13 9 (8.33%) Product Management
13 9 (8.33%) SaaS
13 9 (8.33%) ERP
13 9 (8.33%) Python
14 8 (7.41%) SAP
14 8 (7.41%) SDLC
15 7 (6.48%) SharePoint
15 7 (6.48%) Back Office
15 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
15 7 (6.48%) Problem-Solving
16 6 (5.56%) NHS

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (6.48%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.70%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.85%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.93%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.93%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.04%) Azure
2 9 (8.33%) SaaS
3 6 (5.56%) AWS
3 6 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.70%) GCP
5 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.85%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.93%) Asana
7 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.93%) Miro
7 1 (0.93%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.93%) PaaS
7 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.56%) WAN
2 5 (4.63%) LAN
3 4 (3.70%) Wireless
4 3 (2.78%) VPN
5 2 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.93%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) DNS
6 1 (0.93%) Firewall
6 1 (0.93%) MPLS
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
6 1 (0.93%) SAN
6 1 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.78%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.85%) Metadata
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 35 (32.41%) Finance
2 25 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.81%) Banking
4 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.48%) Back Office
6 5 (4.63%) Retail
7 4 (3.70%) Front Office
7 4 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Games
8 3 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.85%) French Language
9 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.85%) Legal
9 2 (1.85%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.93%) International Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.85%) OpenID
1 2 (1.85%) SAML
2 1 (0.93%) ADO
2 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.26%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.56%) NHS
4 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.78%) FMCG
6 3 (2.78%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.78%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.85%) Derivative
7 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Social Media
8 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Windows
2 1 (0.93%) AIX
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.81%) Project Management
2 39 (36.11%) Agile
3 21 (19.44%) Project Delivery
4 18 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (13.89%) Change Management
5 15 (13.89%) Migration
5 15 (13.89%) Roadmaps
6 14 (12.96%) Scrum
7 13 (12.04%) Programme Management
8 11 (10.19%) Risk Management
9 10 (9.26%) Waterfall
10 9 (8.33%) ERP
10 9 (8.33%) Product Management
11 8 (7.41%) SDLC
12 7 (6.48%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (5.56%) Analytics
13 6 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (5.56%) Data Analytics
13 6 (5.56%) Data Modelling
13 6 (5.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.26%) SQL
2 9 (8.33%) Python
3 3 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (0.93%) Java
4 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (5.56%) PMI Certification
1 6 (5.56%) PMP
2 5 (4.63%) Degree
3 4 (3.70%) PgMP
4 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) FFIEC
6 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) SLA
3 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (2.78%) TrustSec
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Nessus
2 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.41%) SAP
3 6 (5.56%) Splunk
4 3 (2.78%) Cisco
4 3 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (1.85%) Temenos
5 2 (1.85%) VMware
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce