Contracts Manager Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Contract Manager
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Contract Manager daily rate in Birmingham is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 0.38% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.43% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £615 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £685 £513 £519
90th Percentile - - £530
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +40.54% -7.50% -13.04%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 785 469 704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 89.85% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 342 496
10th Percentile £313 £181 £250
25th Percentile £407 £375 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -1.02% +3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 39
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.62 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.17 £13.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -50.88% +42.50%
75th Percentile £26.10 £29.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £68.58
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +38.72% -17.59% +22.22%

Contracts Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Contracts Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Contracts Manager job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Contracts Manager job vacancies in Birmingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Contracts Manager job vacancies in Birmingham

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 10 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 21 March 2026, Contracts Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall