Technical Manager Contracts in the South East

Technical Manager
England > South East

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 184 217
Rank change year-on-year +10 +33 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 25 31 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.45% 0.54% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.57% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 33
10th Percentile £383 £412 £415
25th Percentile £485 £445 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £681 £538 £563
90th Percentile £806 £635 £619
England median daily rate £540 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +1.89% -7.83% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,125 5,457 7,463
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 94.71% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,092 3,816 5,052
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £494
Median % change year-on-year - +1.27% +9.72%
75th Percentile £619 £610 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 239 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £17.11 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.14 £15.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.95
90th Percentile £76.99 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the South East

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the South East

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the South East

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the South East

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 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
Thames Valley +2 9 £523 +10.00% 22
Hampshire +7 7 £638 +41.67% 12
Berkshire -4 6 £525 +2.44% 7
Surrey +15 5 £525 +21.74% 7
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £516 +14.72% 9
West Sussex +9 3 £500 +0.50% 5
Kent +3 1 £800 +36.75% 4
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 3 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 South East region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 14 (56.00%) Project Management
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) Finance
4 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (24.00%) PRINCE2
5 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (16.00%) PMP
6 4 (16.00%) PMI Certification
7 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (12.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 3 (12.00%) Budget Management
8 2 (8.00%) Project Planning
8 2 (8.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
8 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (8.00%) Business Case
8 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (8.00%) Waterfall
8 2 (8.00%) Guidewire
8 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (8.00%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (8.00%) CRM
8 2 (8.00%) SQL

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.00%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.00%) GitHub
1 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Automotive
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Project Management
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) PRINCE2
3 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.00%) Budget Management
5 3 (12.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (12.00%) Programme Management
6 2 (8.00%) Business Case
6 2 (8.00%) Critical Path Analysis
6 2 (8.00%) CRM
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (8.00%) Migration
6 2 (8.00%) Project Planning
6 2 (8.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (8.00%) Supplier Management
6 2 (8.00%) Validation
6 2 (8.00%) Wealth Management
6 2 (8.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (16.00%) PMP
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) APMG
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Cisco
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Guidewire
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) AlgoSec
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Juniper
3 1 (4.00%) SAP