IT Manager Contracts in Berkshire

IT Manager
South East > Berkshire

The median IT Manager daily rate in Berkshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 87 94
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +7
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 9 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.79% 1.17% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.26% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 16
10th Percentile £405 £501 £338
25th Percentile £417 £513 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £470
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +17.15% -10.57%
75th Percentile £544 £605 £575
90th Percentile £563 £683 £675
South East median daily rate £535 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -2.73% +6.80% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.10 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.75 - -
90th Percentile £78.30 - -
South East median hourly rate £71.00 £60.00 £68.64
% change year-on-year +18.33% -12.58% -3.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,052 1,829 1,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 93.27% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 929 1,076
10th Percentile £313 £273 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 129 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.95 £17.31
25th Percentile £32.05 £42.00 £22.66
Median hourly rate £61.50 £60.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +4.81% +175.32%
75th Percentile £78.60 £76.99 £74.06
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.53 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £31.00 £48.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.34% -2.60% +138.10%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in Berkshire

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in Berkshire

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in Berkshire

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in Berkshire

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Manager in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Manager in Berkshire

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
Bracknell +9 3 - - 3
Reading +22 2 - - 6
Maidenhead +7 1 - -
IT Manager
South East

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, 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 job ads across the Berkshire region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Business Continuity
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (33.33%) Confluence
3 3 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) SLA
4 2 (22.22%) BMC
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) Life Science
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (11.11%) Culture Change
5 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Server Management

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Life Science
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Business Continuity
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Experimental Design
5 1 (11.11%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) BMC
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow