Sales Manager Contracts

Sales Manager
UK

The median Sales Manager daily rate in the UK is £280 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 596 712 855
Rank change year-on-year +116 +143 -173
Contract jobs requiring a Sales Manager 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.007% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.007% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £183 - £348
25th Percentile £214 - £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +6.60% -14.35%
75th Percentile £295 - £594
90th Percentile - - £643
UK excluding London median daily rate - £525 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - £58.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £59.50
75th Percentile £43.75 - £60.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Sales Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sales Manager in the UK

Sales Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sales Manager in the UK

Sales Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sales Manager in the UK

Sales Manager
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sales Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +120 4 £280 -46.67% 387
London - 4 £280 - 112

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Sales 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 Sales Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality

Sales 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Google