IT Manager Contracts in the North of England

IT Manager
England > North of England

The median IT Manager daily rate in the North of England is £455 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 95 109
Rank change year-on-year -45 +14 +20
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 44 133 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 2.33% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 2.44% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 103 113
10th Percentile £370 £363 £298
25th Percentile £425 £433 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +3.09% +21.25%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £588
England median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £12.75
25th Percentile £40.00 - £17.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £23.91
75th Percentile £46.00 - £27.00
90th Percentile - - £33.63
England median hourly rate £31.84 £62.50 £34.45
% change year-on-year -49.06% +81.42% +18.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the North of England

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in the North of England

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the North of England

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in the North of England

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West -23 24 £500 +5.26% 42
Yorkshire -19 15 £450 -18.18% 37
North East +19 4 £525 +16.67% 11
IT Manager
England

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 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 across the North of England region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.82%) Project Management
3 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (20.45%) PRINCE2
4 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (13.64%) ITIL
5 6 (13.64%) Finance
5 6 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 5 (11.36%) Budget Management
6 5 (11.36%) Service Management
6 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
6 5 (11.36%) Supplier Management
7 4 (9.09%) Project Planning
7 4 (9.09%) Project Governance
7 4 (9.09%) Change Management
7 4 (9.09%) SAP
7 4 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (9.09%) Programme Management
7 4 (9.09%) Agile
7 4 (9.09%) Contract Management
7 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (6.82%) Business Continuity
8 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (6.82%) PMP
8 3 (6.82%) PMI Certification
8 3 (6.82%) Windows
8 3 (6.82%) CRM

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.82%) Azure
1 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (6.82%) SaaS
2 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) LAN
1 1 (2.27%) WAN
1 1 (2.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Hudson
1 2 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 17 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.82%) Retail
4 2 (4.55%) Back Office
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Billing
5 1 (2.27%) Local Government
5 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Middleware
1 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Project Management
2 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (20.45%) PRINCE2
4 6 (13.64%) ITIL
4 6 (13.64%) Project Delivery
5 5 (11.36%) Budget Management
5 5 (11.36%) Service Management
5 5 (11.36%) Supplier Management
5 5 (11.36%) Waterfall
6 4 (9.09%) Agile
6 4 (9.09%) Change Management
6 4 (9.09%) Contract Management
6 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.09%) Programme Management
6 4 (9.09%) Project Governance
6 4 (9.09%) Project Planning
7 3 (6.82%) ITSM
7 3 (6.82%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.82%) PMP
2 3 (6.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) CAPM
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (2.27%) Ariba
2 1 (2.27%) Cadence
2 1 (2.27%) Citrix
2 1 (2.27%) Kronos
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle
2 1 (2.27%) VMware