Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Technical Manager
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Technical Manager daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £850, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £800 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £900 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £725 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +14.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 347 257 343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.52% 78.83% 78.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 117 148
10th Percentile £185 £294 £178
25th Percentile £335 £363 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £594 £556 £560
90th Percentile £678 £650 £641
East of England median daily rate £491 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +9.13% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 33 106
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.92 £13.41
25th Percentile £13.80 £20.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £15.83
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +44.68% +2.10%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £35.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.30 £47.50 £40.28
% change year-on-year -34.10% +17.94% +91.79%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Technical Manager job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Wisbech - 6 - -
Cambridge - 3 £850 - 1
Technical Manager
East of England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Technical 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Culture Change
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) GitOps
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (22.22%) Observability
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Governance
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) API Design
3 1 (11.11%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Deep Learning
3 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
3 1 (11.11%) Foundry

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (11.11%) PaaS
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Culture Change
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) GitOps
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (22.22%) Observability
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Governance
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (11.11%) LLM
3 1 (11.11%) Prompt Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) EU AI Act
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Foundry
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft