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 24 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 375 330
Rank change year-on-year +11 -45 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 211 347 679
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.61% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.65% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 236 438
10th Percentile £354 £396 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £638
90th Percentile £793 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £28.25 £65.50 £33.00
25th Percentile £29.25 £66.25 £41.00
Median hourly rate £34.21 £67.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.32% +14.89% +113.64%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £69.16
90th Percentile £43.53 £69.50 £70.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.21 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -47.37% -7.14% -

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 39,539 53,460 83,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.63% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,741 37,320 58,759
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,737 1,489 2,014
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 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 +5 190 £525 - 413
UK excluding London +40 98 £500 - 332
London -8 95 £575 +4.55% 118
Work from Home +72 84 £525 +2.19% 95
North of England +31 31 £496 -0.75% 67
South East +7 25 £525 +5.00% 96
North West +29 18 £496 -0.75% 31
East of England +16 15 £525 -19.23% 44
Yorkshire +14 13 £506 +1.25% 21
Midlands +25 12 £488 -7.14% 61
West Midlands +13 12 £488 -11.36% 32
Scotland +37 11 £558 +11.50% 20
South West +11 7 £500 -5.88% 40
Wales +16 1 £500 -16.67% 12

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 94 (44.55%) Project Management
2 70 (33.18%) Agile
3 59 (27.96%) Finance
4 48 (22.75%) Social Skills
5 43 (20.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (18.01%) Project Delivery
7 24 (11.37%) Azure
8 23 (10.90%) Programme Management
8 23 (10.90%) Change Management
8 23 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (10.43%) Roadmaps
10 21 (9.95%) Scrum
11 19 (9.00%) Migration
11 19 (9.00%) SAP
11 19 (9.00%) Banking
11 19 (9.00%) Waterfall
12 17 (8.06%) Degree
12 17 (8.06%) PMP
12 17 (8.06%) PMI Certification
12 17 (8.06%) Risk Management
13 16 (7.58%) Security Cleared
13 16 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
14 15 (7.11%) JIRA
14 15 (7.11%) PRINCE2
14 15 (7.11%) ERP
15 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
16 13 (6.16%) Data Centre
16 13 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.16%) Microsoft
17 12 (5.69%) Project Planning

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 10 (4.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.90%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (1.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.95%) CMS
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.47%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) Maya
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.37%) Azure
2 11 (5.21%) SaaS
3 10 (4.74%) AWS
4 9 (4.27%) GCP
5 6 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.42%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.95%) iPaaS
8 2 (0.95%) PaaS
8 2 (0.95%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.47%) Contentful
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub
9 1 (0.47%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.47%) IaaS
9 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.37%) WAN
3 4 (1.90%) Firewall
3 4 (1.90%) LAN
4 3 (1.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.95%) Broadband
5 2 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.95%) SAN
5 2 (0.95%) Skype
5 2 (0.95%) Wireless
6 1 (0.47%) DHCP
6 1 (0.47%) MPLS
6 1 (0.47%) NAS
6 1 (0.47%) NFC
6 1 (0.47%) RTP
6 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.42%) Metadata
2 3 (1.42%) Power BI
2 3 (1.42%) SAP HANA
3 2 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (7.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.47%) CA Gen
General
1 59 (27.96%) Finance
2 48 (22.75%) Social Skills
3 19 (9.00%) Banking
4 16 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.79%) Retail
7 7 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.37%) Back Office
8 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.90%) French Language
9 4 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Police
10 3 (1.42%) Automotive
10 3 (1.42%) Games
10 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.42%) Legal
10 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.47%) ADO
1 1 (0.47%) Hugging Face
1 1 (0.47%) SAP PI
1 1 (0.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.32%) NHS
3 7 (3.32%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.84%) Digital Media
5 4 (1.90%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.90%) FMCG
5 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.42%) PMI
6 3 (1.42%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.95%) Digital TV
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.95%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.95%) STB
8 1 (0.47%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.90%) Linux
2 3 (1.42%) Windows
3 2 (0.95%) AIX
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.55%) Project Management
2 70 (33.18%) Agile
3 43 (20.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (18.01%) Project Delivery
5 23 (10.90%) Change Management
5 23 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (10.90%) Programme Management
6 22 (10.43%) Roadmaps
7 21 (9.95%) Scrum
8 19 (9.00%) Migration
8 19 (9.00%) Waterfall
9 17 (8.06%) Risk Management
10 15 (7.11%) ERP
10 15 (7.11%) PRINCE2
11 13 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (5.69%) Decision-Making
12 12 (5.69%) Product Management
12 12 (5.69%) Project Planning
12 12 (5.69%) SDLC
13 11 (5.21%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.21%) SQL
2 10 (4.74%) Python
3 3 (1.42%) Perl
4 2 (0.95%) Java
4 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.47%) C
5 1 (0.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (8.06%) Degree
1 17 (8.06%) PMI Certification
1 17 (8.06%) PMP
2 16 (7.58%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.90%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.90%) PgMP
6 3 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.42%) HNC
6 3 (1.42%) NVQ Level 4
7 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.47%) CCNA
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.21%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 6 (2.84%) ISO17020
3 5 (2.37%) SLA
4 4 (1.90%) PMO
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.47%) PowerHA
2 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.47%) Nessus
1 1 (0.47%) SCCM
1 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.47%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 19 (9.00%) SAP
2 13 (6.16%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.79%) Google
4 6 (2.84%) Splunk
5 4 (1.90%) Cisco
6 2 (0.95%) Ariba
6 2 (0.95%) Guidewire
6 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle
6 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.95%) Temenos
6 2 (0.95%) VMware
6 2 (0.95%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.47%) CA
7 1 (0.47%) Cognos
7 1 (0.47%) Genesys
7 1 (0.47%) IBM
7 1 (0.47%) IFS
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce