Technical Manager Contracts in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the Thames Valley is £523 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 138 145
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 10 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.37% 0.44% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.47% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 19
10th Percentile £458 £419 £432
25th Percentile £497 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% -14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £543
90th Percentile £573 £538 £583
South East median daily rate £525 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +13.51% -11.90% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,507 2,770 3,353
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 94.31% 96.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,919 2,284
10th Percentile £210 £313 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £489
% change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 76 103
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.31 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £12.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +166.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £63.09 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £84.48 £79.19 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the Thames Valley

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire -6 6 £525 +5.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +29 4 £516 +14.72% 8
Technical Manager
South East

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 Thames Valley region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Business Case
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (20.00%) Network Security
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) PMP
4 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Automotive
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) AlgoSec
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Maya
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) CSOC
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Business Case
3 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Kanban
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Programme Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) AlgoSec
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce