IT Manager Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Manager daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 170 173
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +47
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 195 376 699
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.29% 1.50% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.57% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 274 525
10th Percentile £363 £349 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £575
90th Percentile £679 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 6
10th Percentile - £41.38 £18.45
25th Percentile £23.63 £50.94 £25.81
Median hourly rate £28.56 £61.25 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year -53.37% +26.94% +47.96%
75th Percentile £33.88 £69.38 £58.06
90th Percentile £40.54 £77.25 £70.88
UK median hourly rate £33.55 £62.50 £34.45
% change year-on-year -46.32% +81.42% +14.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,116 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.42 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured IT Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Manager trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Manager.

IT Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

IT Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Manager.

IT Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

IT Manager hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, IT 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 69 (35.38%) Finance
2 49 (25.13%) Project Management
3 44 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 37 (18.97%) Agile
5 33 (16.92%) Banking
5 33 (16.92%) Change Management
6 30 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 22 (11.28%) PRINCE2
8 17 (8.72%) Security Cleared
8 17 (8.72%) Waterfall
8 17 (8.72%) ITIL
9 15 (7.69%) Risk Management
9 15 (7.69%) SC Cleared
9 15 (7.69%) Project Delivery
10 14 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (7.18%) Microsoft
10 14 (7.18%) Business Continuity
11 13 (6.67%) Legal
11 13 (6.67%) PMP
11 13 (6.67%) Public Sector
12 12 (6.15%) Service Management
12 12 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (5.64%) Azure
13 11 (5.64%) Degree
13 11 (5.64%) PMI Certification
13 11 (5.64%) SharePoint
13 11 (5.64%) Data Centre
13 11 (5.64%) Budget Management
14 10 (5.13%) Line Management
14 10 (5.13%) Problem-Solving

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (5.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.05%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.51%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.03%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.51%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (5.64%) Azure
3 6 (3.08%) SaaS
3 6 (3.08%) WhatsApp
4 5 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.05%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.03%) Canva
6 2 (1.03%) Slack
7 1 (0.51%) AWS
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.51%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.51%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.56%) Intranet
2 2 (1.03%) WAN
3 1 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.51%) LAN
3 1 (0.51%) Network Security
3 1 (0.51%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.05%) Power BI
2 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.03%) Tableau
3 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (2.05%) JIRA
General
1 69 (35.38%) Finance
2 33 (16.92%) Banking
3 30 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 13 (6.67%) Legal
4 13 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.56%) Law
6 5 (2.56%) Local Government
7 4 (2.05%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.05%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Military
7 4 (2.05%) Retail
8 3 (1.54%) French Language
8 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.54%) Publishing
9 2 (1.03%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.51%) ADO
1 1 (0.51%) Express.js
1 1 (0.51%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.51%) Node.js
1 1 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.64%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.05%) FMCG
3 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.03%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (1.03%) Life Science
5 2 (1.03%) PMI
5 2 (1.03%) Video Editing
6 1 (0.51%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.51%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.51%) NHS
6 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.51%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.51%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.51%) Tandem
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.51%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.03%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.13%) Project Management
2 44 (22.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 37 (18.97%) Agile
4 33 (16.92%) Change Management
5 22 (11.28%) PRINCE2
6 17 (8.72%) ITIL
6 17 (8.72%) Waterfall
7 15 (7.69%) Project Delivery
7 15 (7.69%) Risk Management
8 14 (7.18%) Business Continuity
8 14 (7.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (6.15%) Service Management
10 11 (5.64%) Budget Management
11 10 (5.13%) Line Management
11 10 (5.13%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (4.62%) Cost Reduction
12 9 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (4.62%) ERP
13 8 (4.10%) Business Case
13 8 (4.10%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.51%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (8.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.67%) PMP
4 11 (5.64%) Degree
4 11 (5.64%) PMI Certification
5 6 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.03%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (3.08%) PMO
2 5 (2.56%) SLA
3 4 (2.05%) COBIT
3 4 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.05%) GDPR
4 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (1.54%) NIST
5 2 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) GRC
5 2 (1.03%) GxP
6 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.51%) EMIR
6 1 (0.51%) MiFID
6 1 (0.51%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
1 1 (0.51%) SCCM
1 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (7.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.59%) SAP
3 6 (3.08%) Oracle
4 5 (2.56%) Adobe
4 5 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.05%) Remedy
6 3 (1.54%) Cisco
7 2 (1.03%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.51%) Cadence
8 1 (0.51%) Citrix
8 1 (0.51%) Dell
8 1 (0.51%) IFS
8 1 (0.51%) Kronos
8 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.51%) Progress
8 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) Workday