Business Manager Contracts

Business Manager
UK

The median Business Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 476 488
Rank change year-on-year +57 +12 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Business Manager 180 251 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.44% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 184 282
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £458 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.82%
75th Percentile £673 £641 £638
90th Percentile £738 £709 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £531 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +10.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 0
10th Percentile £22.50 £54.80 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £57.22 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% - -
75th Percentile £36.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £62.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £57.13 -
% change year-on-year -51.86% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Business Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Manager in the UK

Business Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Manager.

Daily rate trend for Business Manager in the UK

Business Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Manager over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Manager in the UK

Business Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Business Manager in the UK

Business Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Manager over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Manager in the UK

Business Manager
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +72 163 £550 - 285
London +77 85 £577 +0.35% 87
UK excluding London +29 84 £531 -3.41% 206
Work from Home +104 74 £575 +4.55% 125
South East +40 35 £550 +6.02% 60
West Midlands +43 19 £463 -19.57% 23
Midlands +35 19 £463 -19.57% 30
North of England -2 14 £575 +4.55% 49
Scotland +25 9 £650 +18.18% 12
North West +9 9 £556 +4.71% 30
South West +11 6 £506 -3.57% 33
Yorkshire -4 5 £645 -0.77% 15
Wales +16 1 £800 - 3
East of England +9 1 £618 +54.50% 18

Business Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Business 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 featuring Business Manager in the job title.

1 82 (45.56%) Finance
2 54 (30.00%) Change Management
3 46 (25.56%) Social Skills
4 40 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (16.11%) Project Management
6 28 (15.56%) Agile
7 25 (13.89%) Asset Management
8 19 (10.56%) Analytics
8 19 (10.56%) Security Cleared
8 19 (10.56%) Marketing
8 19 (10.56%) Front Office
9 18 (10.00%) Product Ownership
10 17 (9.44%) Derivative
10 17 (9.44%) Equities
10 17 (9.44%) Fixed Income
11 16 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
11 16 (8.89%) Investment Management
11 16 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (8.89%) Decision-Making
12 15 (8.33%) Business Case
12 15 (8.33%) Machine Learning
12 15 (8.33%) Hedge funds
12 15 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (8.33%) SQL
13 14 (7.78%) SC Cleared
13 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
14 13 (7.22%) Digital Marketing
14 13 (7.22%) Business Development
14 13 (7.22%) ERP
14 13 (7.22%) Python

Business Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.67%) Confluence
1 3 (1.67%) SAS
1 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) ION MarketView
1 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.56%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.56%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.11%) AWS
2 7 (3.89%) Power Platform
3 6 (3.33%) Azure
4 5 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.67%) Smartsheet
5 3 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.56%) GCP
6 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.56%) SaaS
6 1 (0.56%) Slack
6 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) Skype
2 2 (1.11%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.89%) Power BI
2 4 (2.22%) Tableau
3 3 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
General
1 82 (45.56%) Finance
2 46 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.56%) Front Office
3 19 (10.56%) Marketing
4 16 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.22%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.00%) Legal
8 8 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.33%) Banking
9 6 (3.33%) Law
9 6 (3.33%) Retail
10 5 (2.78%) Local Government
10 5 (2.78%) Police
10 5 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.22%) Electronics
12 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (1.11%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.44%) Derivative
2 17 (9.44%) Equities
2 17 (9.44%) Fixed Income
3 15 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (8.33%) Hedge funds
4 9 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.22%) Life Science
7 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.67%) NHS
7 3 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.56%) Replication
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.00%) Change Management
2 40 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (16.11%) Project Management
4 28 (15.56%) Agile
5 25 (13.89%) Asset Management
6 19 (10.56%) Analytics
7 16 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 16 (8.89%) Decision-Making
7 16 (8.89%) Investment Management
8 15 (8.33%) Business Case
8 15 (8.33%) Machine Learning
9 13 (7.22%) Business Development
9 13 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (7.22%) Digital Marketing
9 13 (7.22%) ERP
10 12 (6.67%) Business Transformation
10 12 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
10 12 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (6.67%) Target Operating Model
11 11 (6.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (8.33%) SQL
2 13 (7.22%) Python
3 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.44%) Degree
4 4 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.56%) ACCA
6 1 (0.56%) APMG
6 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.11%) ISO 22301
2 2 (1.11%) PMO
3 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.56%) IFRS
3 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.56%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (6.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.78%) SAP
3 4 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.67%) Workday
5 2 (1.11%) Google
5 2 (1.11%) Sage
6 1 (0.56%) Anaplan
6 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.56%) Charles River
6 1 (0.56%) DocuSign
6 1 (0.56%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.56%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle
6 1 (0.56%) Remedy
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) Tradeweb