Technical Manager Contracts in Cambridge

Technical Manager
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Technical Manager daily rate in Cambridge is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.30% 0.61% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £613 £206 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £213 -
Median % change year-on-year +300.00% - -
75th Percentile £900 £219 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £850 £213 £465
% change year-on-year +300.00% -54.30% -13.49%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 150 142 224
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.21% 86.59% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 69 145
10th Percentile £340 £225 £185
25th Percentile £444 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £465
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.68% -4.62%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £538
90th Percentile £703 £638 £583
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 18
10th Percentile £16.88 £22.53 £15.50
25th Percentile £38.90 £36.06 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -59.73%
75th Percentile £71.25 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.13 £61.63
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.58 £21.37 £16.94
% change year-on-year -22.44% +26.19% +11.05%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in Cambridge

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in Cambridge

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in Cambridge over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in Cambridge

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, 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 across the Cambridge region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Management
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Culture Change
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Management
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle