Software Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £501 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 397 441
Rank change year-on-year +42 +44 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Software Manager 35 46 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 50
10th Percentile £398 £413 £368
25th Percentile £481 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £547
90th Percentile £575 £688 £639
UK median daily rate £650 £528 £575
% change year-on-year +23.22% -8.26% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 3
10th Percentile - £63.88 £30.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £65.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +90.55% -22.75%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £36.16
90th Percentile - - £36.51
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.50 £34.38
% change year-on-year -27.48% +90.55% -20.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 of England +46 14 £493 -14.26% 10
North West +28 12 £490 -14.74% 7
South West +11 9 £501 - 9
East of England +6 5 £388 -40.38% 4
Wales - 3 £503 - 4
Midlands +25 2 £538 +17.49% 19
West Midlands +14 2 £538 +17.49% 12
South East +6 2 £563 +6.13% 12
Yorkshire +17 1 £525 - 3
North East - 1 - -
Software Manager
UK

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Software 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 UK excluding London region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
1 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) Asset Management
3 11 (31.43%) Software Asset Management
4 9 (25.71%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 9 (25.71%) Scrum
5 8 (22.86%) CMDB
5 8 (22.86%) .NET
5 8 (22.86%) Quality Management
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.86%) Virtual Team Management
5 8 (22.86%) Virtual Team
6 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (20.00%) Service Management
6 7 (20.00%) Degree
6 7 (20.00%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Statistics
7 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
7 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
7 6 (17.14%) Configuration Management
7 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (17.14%) IT Asset Management
7 6 (17.14%) Internal Audit
7 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
8 5 (14.29%) Project Management
8 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 5 (14.29%) C#
8 5 (14.29%) ITIL

Software Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) AWS
1 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Retail
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) .NET
2 2 (5.71%) React Native
3 1 (2.86%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) CMDB
1 8 (22.86%) Virtual Team
2 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Asset Management
2 11 (31.43%) Software Asset Management
3 9 (25.71%) Scrum
3 9 (25.71%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Quality Management
4 8 (22.86%) Virtual Team Management
5 7 (20.00%) Agile
5 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (20.00%) Service Management
5 7 (20.00%) Statistics
6 6 (17.14%) Configuration Management
6 6 (17.14%) Internal Audit
6 6 (17.14%) IT Asset Management
6 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.29%) ITIL
7 5 (14.29%) Project Management
7 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
8 4 (11.43%) Software Architecture
8 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) C#
2 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) C
3 1 (2.86%) C++
3 1 (2.86%) Java
3 1 (2.86%) PHP
3 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) SC Cleared
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) MCP
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Progress
4 1 (2.86%) Cadence
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle