Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Technical Manager
North West > Cheshire

The median Technical Manager daily rate in Cheshire is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 53 50
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.58% 1.04% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.15% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £337 £373 £433
25th Percentile £355 £392 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £411 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -13.47% -13.64%
75th Percentile £503 £438 £500
90th Percentile £521 £470 -
North West median daily rate £522 £492 £496
% change year-on-year +6.00% -0.86% -0.75%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 625 436 496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 90.64% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 312 333
10th Percentile £322 £313 £276
25th Percentile £400 £358 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £446 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -6.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £543 £575
90th Percentile £652 £649 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £468 £488
% change year-on-year +1.50% -4.00% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 24 39
10th Percentile £15.93 £12.82 £13.90
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.25 £16.40
Median hourly rate £32.23 £35.20 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +35.38% -11.14%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.44 £38.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +73.91% -6.50% +0.69%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Technical Manager job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in Cheshire

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 May 2026. 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
Knutsford -11 2 £475 +15.66% 2
Technical Manager
North West

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2026, 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 Cheshire region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft