IT Manager Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

IT Manager
England > East Midlands

The median IT Manager daily rate in the East Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 53 54
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 -15
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 6 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.78% 1.47% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.56% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
10th Percentile £431 £310 £407
25th Percentile £461 £355 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £602 £538 £634
90th Percentile £641 £580 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £73.00 £32.56 £57.50
% change year-on-year +124.20% -43.37% -11.54%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 696 703 784
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 93.86% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 454 572
10th Percentile £200 £243 £213
25th Percentile £325 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £500 £573 £606
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 53 44
10th Percentile £15.43 £12.47 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.19
Median hourly rate £21.39 £22.50 £20.76
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +8.41% +12.19%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.81
90th Percentile £29.16 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +65.38%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the East Midlands

IT Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in the East Midlands

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the East Midlands

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in the East Midlands

IT Manager
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 IT Manager within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 August 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 2 - - 6
Northamptonshire -12 2 £420 -3.45% 3
Nottinghamshire -2 1 £628 +11.64%
Leicestershire - 1 £525 - 1
IT Manager
England

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 August 2025, IT 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 East Midlands region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) Rockwell
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Project Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Back Office
4 1 (16.67%) AS400
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) SAP
4 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 1 (16.67%) Linux

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) PRMS
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AS400
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) OpenVMS
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Project Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 1 (16.67%) Rockwell
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow