Technical Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 339 310
Rank change year-on-year +38 -29 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 93 112 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.48% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.51% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 79 136
10th Percentile £361 £413 £411
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -4.76% +6.33%
75th Percentile £578 £581 £583
90th Percentile £639 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £534 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.67% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £28.25 - £61.94
25th Percentile £29.74 - £64.96
Median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% -7.14% -
75th Percentile - - £71.26
90th Percentile £45.86 - £72.02
UK median hourly rate £34.21 £67.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -49.32% +14.89% +113.64%

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 18,943 22,066 29,076
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.30% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,549 15,423 20,326
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 £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 2,262 1,138 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.99
90th Percentile £73.98 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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 +27 29 £500 - 59
South East +13 23 £525 +5.00% 70
North West +20 16 £500 - 34
East of England +18 14 £525 -19.23% 46
Yorkshire +16 13 £506 +12.50% 20
Scotland +48 12 £541 +5.61% 5
Midlands +20 12 £488 -9.30% 49
West Midlands +17 12 £488 -13.33% 29
South West +6 6 £500 -4.76% 42
Wales +15 1 £500 -16.67% 7
Technical Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 UK excluding London region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 44 (47.31%) Project Management
2 29 (31.18%) Agile
3 23 (24.73%) Social Skills
4 22 (23.66%) Finance
5 19 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (12.90%) Security Cleared
6 12 (12.90%) Project Delivery
7 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
8 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.75%) Waterfall
8 10 (10.75%) Programme Management
8 10 (10.75%) PRINCE2
9 9 (9.68%) Azure
10 8 (8.60%) SAP
10 8 (8.60%) ERP
10 8 (8.60%) JIRA
11 7 (7.53%) Change Management
12 6 (6.45%) PMP
12 6 (6.45%) PMI Certification
12 6 (6.45%) Degree
12 6 (6.45%) Validation
12 6 (6.45%) Digital Forensics
12 6 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (6.45%) Digital Media
12 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
12 6 (6.45%) QA
12 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 6 (6.45%) ISO17020
12 6 (6.45%) Resource Allocation
12 6 (6.45%) Data Collection

Technical 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.08%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.08%) Maya
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.08%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.68%) Azure
2 4 (4.30%) AWS
2 4 (4.30%) GCP
2 4 (4.30%) SaaS
3 2 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.15%) iPaaS
3 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.15%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.08%) GitHub
4 1 (1.08%) IaaS
4 1 (1.08%) PaaS
4 1 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.15%) Broadband
2 2 (2.15%) Firewall
2 2 (2.15%) Network Security
2 2 (2.15%) Skype
2 2 (2.15%) VPN
3 1 (1.08%) LAN
3 1 (1.08%) NFC
3 1 (1.08%) RTP
3 1 (1.08%) SAN
3 1 (1.08%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.08%) VLAN
3 1 (1.08%) VoIP
3 1 (1.08%) WAN
3 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (2.15%) Power BI
2 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) CA Gen
General
1 23 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.66%) Finance
3 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.23%) Banking
4 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.23%) Police
4 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.15%) Automotive
5 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.08%) Law
6 1 (1.08%) Local Government
6 1 (1.08%) Military
6 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Retail
6 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.08%) SAP PI
1 1 (1.08%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.45%) Digital Media
2 4 (4.30%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.15%) Digital TV
4 2 (2.15%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.15%) NHS
4 2 (2.15%) STB
5 1 (1.08%) CSOC
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.08%) EMV
5 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.08%) PMI
5 1 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (2.15%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (47.31%) Project Management
2 29 (31.18%) Agile
3 19 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (12.90%) Project Delivery
5 10 (10.75%) PRINCE2
5 10 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (10.75%) Programme Management
5 10 (10.75%) Waterfall
6 8 (8.60%) ERP
7 7 (7.53%) Change Management
8 6 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (6.45%) Data Collection
8 6 (6.45%) Digital Forensics
8 6 (6.45%) Resource Allocation
8 6 (6.45%) Roadmaps
8 6 (6.45%) Validation
9 5 (5.38%) Budget Management
9 5 (5.38%) Data Analysis
9 5 (5.38%) Decision-Making
9 5 (5.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.23%) Perl
1 3 (3.23%) Python
1 3 (3.23%) SQL
2 1 (1.08%) C
2 1 (1.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.45%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) PMI Certification
2 6 (6.45%) PMP
2 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.23%) HNC
4 3 (3.23%) NVQ Level 4
5 2 (2.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.08%) APMG
6 1 (1.08%) APMP
6 1 (1.08%) CCNA
6 1 (1.08%) CCNP
6 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.08%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 6 (6.45%) ISO17020
1 6 (6.45%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) GDPR
2 3 (3.23%) PMO
3 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.08%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.08%) RMADS
3 1 (1.08%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) SAP
2 4 (4.30%) Google
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.23%) Cisco
4 2 (2.15%) Guidewire
4 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.08%) AlgoSec
5 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.08%) CA
5 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.08%) Cognos
5 1 (1.08%) Genesys
5 1 (1.08%) IFS
5 1 (1.08%) Juniper
5 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow