Systems Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 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 382 433 486
Rank change year-on-year +51 +53 -80
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Manager 21 24 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 29
10th Percentile £330 £204 £403
25th Percentile £450 £313 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% +18.92%
75th Percentile £508 £613 £625
90th Percentile £875 £750 £703
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £24.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.67 - £23.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.70%

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 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £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 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Systems Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Manager in the UK excluding London

Systems Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Manager in the UK excluding London

Systems Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Manager in the UK excluding London

Systems Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Manager in the UK excluding London

Systems 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 Systems Manager within the UK excluding London 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
South East +14 9 £505 -3.81% 27
South West +23 6 £450 -12.20% 5
North of England +29 5 £385 -3.75% 16
North West - 5 £385 - 2
Midlands +26 1 £300 -7.69% 19
East Midlands +21 1 £300 -50.00% 8
Systems Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Systems 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 Systems Manager in the job title.

1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Project Management
3 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
3 4 (19.05%) Change Management
3 4 (19.05%) Legal
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
4 3 (14.29%) Validation
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 3 (14.29%) Oracle
5 2 (9.52%) SAP FI
5 2 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) Quality Management
5 2 (9.52%) System Testing
5 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Requirements Management
5 2 (9.52%) Data Management
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) SAP CO
5 2 (9.52%) Publishing
5 2 (9.52%) ETL
5 2 (9.52%) SAP FI/CO

Systems 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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP CO
1 2 (9.52%) SAP FI
1 2 (9.52%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (4.76%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) OCI
1 2 (9.52%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Legal
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Publishing
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) LIMS
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (19.05%) Change Management
2 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
3 3 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Migration
3 3 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 3 (14.29%) Validation
4 2 (9.52%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (9.52%) Coaching
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) Data Management
4 2 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
4 2 (9.52%) Quality Management
4 2 (9.52%) Requirements Management
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) System Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
2 1 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) SAP
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Sage