Technical Manager Contracts

Technical Manager
UK

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 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 368 382 346
Rank change year-on-year +14 -36 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 238 376 687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.63% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.66% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 245 459
10th Percentile £356 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £721 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 10
10th Percentile £28.25 £65.50 £33.00
25th Percentile £29.25 £66.25 £41.00
Median hourly rate £34.21 £67.50 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.32% +44.39% +70.00%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £62.97
90th Percentile £43.53 £69.50 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £70.64
% change year-on-year -47.37% -7.98% -

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%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical 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 Technical 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 +28 213 £525 - 319
London +14 119 £575 +4.55% 91
UK excluding London +49 96 £513 +2.50% 244
Work from Home +72 93 £525 +1.94% 71
North of England +29 32 £500 - 43
South East +25 26 £525 +13.51% 72
North West +20 20 £500 - 28
East of England +15 14 £525 -19.23% 43
Yorkshire +13 12 £588 +30.56% 12
West Midlands +28 11 £475 -17.39% 32
Midlands +15 11 £475 -9.52% 47
Scotland +39 10 £525 +2.44% 7
South West +13 6 £500 -2.49% 32
Wales +14 1 £500 -16.67% 11

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 105 (44.12%) Project Management
2 79 (33.19%) Agile
3 65 (27.31%) Finance
4 52 (21.85%) Social Skills
5 48 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (17.23%) Project Delivery
7 29 (12.18%) Roadmaps
8 26 (10.92%) Programme Management
9 25 (10.50%) Change Management
9 25 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (10.08%) Security Cleared
11 23 (9.66%) Migration
11 23 (9.66%) Azure
12 22 (9.24%) Waterfall
12 22 (9.24%) Banking
12 22 (9.24%) Scrum
13 19 (7.98%) PMP
13 19 (7.98%) PMI Certification
13 19 (7.98%) Degree
14 18 (7.56%) JIRA
14 18 (7.56%) SAP
14 18 (7.56%) Risk Management
15 17 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
16 16 (6.72%) Public Sector
16 16 (6.72%) PRINCE2
16 16 (6.72%) ERP
17 15 (6.30%) Microsoft
17 15 (6.30%) Decision-Making
17 15 (6.30%) Product Management
17 15 (6.30%) Budget Management

Technical 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 8 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.68%) Confluence
4 3 (1.26%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.42%) CICS
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.42%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 11 (4.62%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.42%) Maya
5 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.84%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.42%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.66%) Azure
2 14 (5.88%) SaaS
3 11 (4.62%) AWS
4 9 (3.78%) GCP
5 4 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.26%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.84%) Asana
7 2 (0.84%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.84%) iPaaS
7 2 (0.84%) Miro
7 2 (0.84%) PaaS
7 2 (0.84%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.84%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.42%) GitHub
8 1 (0.42%) IaaS
8 1 (0.42%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.42%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.42%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.36%) Firewall
1 8 (3.36%) WAN
2 7 (2.94%) LAN
2 7 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (2.52%) VPN
4 5 (2.10%) Wireless
5 3 (1.26%) Network Security
6 2 (0.84%) Broadband
6 2 (0.84%) DHCP
6 2 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.84%) SAN
6 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.84%) Skype
6 2 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.84%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.84%) VoIP
7 1 (0.42%) DNS
7 1 (0.42%) NAS
7 1 (0.42%) RTP
7 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.10%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.26%) SAP HANA
2 3 (1.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (0.84%) Metadata
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.42%) DB2
4 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.42%) IDMS
4 1 (0.42%) Power BI
4 1 (0.42%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 18 (7.56%) JIRA
2 1 (0.42%) CA Gen
General
1 65 (27.31%) Finance
2 52 (21.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (9.24%) Banking
4 17 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.36%) Retail
7 7 (2.94%) Back Office
7 7 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.52%) Front Office
8 6 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.10%) Legal
10 4 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.68%) Law
10 4 (1.68%) Police
10 4 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.26%) Automotive
11 3 (1.26%) French Language
11 3 (1.26%) Games
12 2 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.84%) ADO
1 2 (0.84%) OpenID
1 2 (0.84%) SAML
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.42%) SAP PI
2 1 (0.42%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.62%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.20%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.78%) NHS
4 8 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.52%) Digital Media
7 5 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.68%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.68%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.26%) CMDB
9 3 (1.26%) FMCG
9 3 (1.26%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.26%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.26%) PMI
9 3 (1.26%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.84%) Derivative
10 2 (0.84%) Digital TV
10 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.84%) STB
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.10%) Windows
2 4 (1.68%) Linux
3 2 (0.84%) AIX
3 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (44.12%) Project Management
2 79 (33.19%) Agile
3 48 (20.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (17.23%) Project Delivery
5 29 (12.18%) Roadmaps
6 26 (10.92%) Programme Management
7 25 (10.50%) Change Management
7 25 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (9.66%) Migration
9 22 (9.24%) Scrum
9 22 (9.24%) Waterfall
10 18 (7.56%) Risk Management
11 16 (6.72%) ERP
11 16 (6.72%) PRINCE2
12 15 (6.30%) Budget Management
12 15 (6.30%) Decision-Making
12 15 (6.30%) Product Management
13 12 (5.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (4.62%) Project Planning
14 11 (4.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.46%) SQL
2 11 (4.62%) Python
3 3 (1.26%) C#
3 3 (1.26%) Perl
4 2 (0.84%) Java
5 1 (0.42%) Assembly Language
5 1 (0.42%) C
5 1 (0.42%) COBOL
5 1 (0.42%) JCL
5 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.98%) Degree
2 19 (7.98%) PMI Certification
2 19 (7.98%) PMP
3 13 (5.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.68%) PgMP
6 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.26%) HNC
6 3 (1.26%) NVQ Level 4
7 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.42%) APMG
8 1 (0.42%) APMP
8 1 (0.42%) CCNA
8 1 (0.42%) CCNP
8 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.42%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.42%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.46%) QA
2 6 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 6 (2.52%) ISO17020
3 5 (2.10%) SLA
4 3 (1.26%) GDPR
4 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) PMO
5 2 (0.84%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.42%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) RMADS
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.42%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (1.26%) TrustSec
2 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) Nessus
2 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (7.56%) SAP
2 15 (6.30%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.78%) Cisco
3 9 (3.78%) Splunk
4 7 (2.94%) Google
5 6 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.26%) Juniper
6 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.84%) AlgoSec
7 2 (0.84%) Ariba
7 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.84%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.84%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.84%) Guidewire
7 2 (0.84%) IBM
7 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle
7 2 (0.84%) Temenos
7 2 (0.84%) VMware
8 1 (0.42%) F5