Contract Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Contract Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Contract Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Contract Management 6 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.72% 0.13% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.15% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £353 - £510
25th Percentile £413 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £650
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -42.31% +33.33%
75th Percentile £719 - -
90th Percentile £828 - -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Contract Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 719 651 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.31% 83.89% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 402 535
10th Percentile £225 £263 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -11.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £601
90th Percentile £630 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 29 50
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.37 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.10 £16.35
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -5.10% +30.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.19
90th Percentile - £51.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%

Contract Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Contract Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Contract Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Contract Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Contract Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Contract Management

Contract Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contract Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contract Management in the East Midlands

Contract Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Contract Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Contract Management

Contract Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contract Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Derbyshire - 2 £325 - 3
Lincolnshire - 2 - - 4
Leicestershire -2 1 £900 +140.00% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £525 - 2
Contract Management
England

Contract Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Category Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
2 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Trapeze